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“Y’minah, Y’minah,” c. 1941. Photo credit: The Dorot Jewish Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) in costume for the solo dance The Dying Swan, a role especially created for her, and which she performed an estimated four thousand times. Born in St. Petersburg and brought…
The cover of this Yiddish-language program is for a performance of Di tsvey Kuni Lemels (Two Kuni Lemels) at Goldfaden’s Yiddish Theater. The image features two dancing men in Hasidic attire. The play…
On this clay plaque from Dan, from the Late Bronze (Canaanite) period, a man is playing a lute while dancing. The position of the performer’s legs shows that he is doing a lively dance.
Seals from numerous sites in ancient Israel and elsewhere in the Levant have schematic depictions of two or three people with hands linked or raised, reaching toward each other. All the members of the…
Score of “Le Grand Pas” from the ballet Paquita, which premiered in Paris in 1846 and which, in adapted form, became a mainstay of classical ballet.
“Tanzstudie,” from Hans Brandenburg’s Der moderne Tanz.
Soyer’s informal family portrait, Dancing Lesson, has become an iconic image of the American Jewish experience, appearing on many book covers and exhibition catalogs. It was painted about thirteen…
Ida Rubinstein, volunteering as a nurse in France during World War I, in a uniform specially designed for her by Leon Bakst. Dancer, actress, and patron of the arts Ida Rubinstein was born into a…
This eleven-foot-wide painting is of the Bal Bullier dance hall in Paris. It is painted in the style of Simultanisme, a type of painting developed by Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert Delaunay in…
