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Dance Performance Collection

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Josephine Baker Dancing the Cancan

Josephine Baker Dancing the Cancan
5/26/1949-Josephine Baker dancing the Can-Can in the "Bal Mabille" act

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Sisters from Ziegfeld Follies

Sisters from Ziegfeld Follies
(Original Caption) New York, NY: The Cameron Sisters, in the Ziegfeld Nine O'Clock review, Miss 1920, atop the New Amsterdam Theatre. Photograph

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Marcel Marceau Performing

Marcel Marceau Performing
(Original Caption) Marcel Marceau, French Pantomime during a performance. Undated Photo

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Women wearing costume dancing at pond

Women wearing costume dancing at pond

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Le Chahut by Georges Seurat

Le Chahut by Georges Seurat
"Le Chahut" painting by Georges Seurat (1859-1891). Painting shows a chorus line kicking on stage with the orchastra visible in the pit. Undated BPA2# 1542

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Five women playing ukuleles in snow

Five women playing ukuleles in snow
Walking through the snow, five women play ukuleles, circa 1925

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Dance Instructors Learn Aeroplane Glide

Dance Instructors Learn Aeroplane Glide
(Original Caption) 9/8/1927-Boston, MA- Boston dancing teachers are learning the latest dance step, called the aeroplane glide, a form of the one-step

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Rumba Dancers Performing Poolside

Rumba Dancers Performing Poolside
These five pretty dancers are giving a demonstration of the popular dance of the tropics, the Rumba, at the Nautilus Bath Club

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Couple Dancing the Rhumba

Couple Dancing the Rhumba
Although the Rhumba is being danced up and down the land, many of the exhibitions are far from suggesting anything of sunny Cuba, the land of the exotic dance

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Benny Goodman at the Hotel Pennsylvania

Benny Goodman at the Hotel Pennsylvania
(Original Caption) 1939- Picture shows big band leader, Benny Goodman, performing at the Hotel Pennsylvania with enthusiastic fans in dancing in front of him

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Swing Band Performing at Hickory House

Swing Band Performing at Hickory House
Patrons watch a swing session on stage at the Hickory House, a "swing salon" on 52nd Street

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Raye and Naldi Ballroom Dancing

Raye and Naldi Ballroom Dancing
(Original Caption) 1941- Raye and Naldi ballroom dancing

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Judy Garland

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in action during a scene from Strike Up the Band, gave first prize in the action still class of the Hollywood Studios Still Photography Show to Ed Cronenweth

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Couple Demostrates Effortless Moves

Couple Demostrates Effortless Moves
(Original Caption) 10/12/1941- Miss Raye is still supported by Naldi as she is lowered to the floor in the last phase of the dance

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Effortless and Gracefull Dance Lift

Effortless and Gracefull Dance Lift
(Original Caption) 10/12/1941- Only Naldi's feet may be seen here as he spins his partner in a whirl of flying draperies

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Show at Copacabana Night Club

Show at Copacabana Night Club
(Original Caption) 9/13/1942 New York, NY- This was supposed to be all about a day in a nightclub, but we just had to show you one night scene. The girls you saw rehearsing, knitting, eating, etc

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Eleanor Roosevelt with Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe and Mbonu Ojike

Eleanor Roosevelt with Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe and Mbonu Ojike
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, sponsor and guest of honor of the African Dance Festival, held Monday evening at Carnegie Hall

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Special Service Platoon Band Playing

Special Service Platoon Band Playing
A swing band from the 39th Special Service Platoon plays during a Thanksgiving Day dance at the Kaihin Hotel

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Dance Spin by Professional Dancers

Dance Spin by Professional Dancers
(Original Caption) 10/12/1941- Miss Raye's feet are now off the dance floor and she is entirely suppported by the right arm of Naldi

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Elizabeth Taylor, Betty Ford, Martha Graham, and Gregory Peck

Elizabeth Taylor, Betty Ford, Martha Graham, and Gregory Peck
Celebrities turn out to honor Martha Graham and to celebrate the Martha Graham Dance Company's first season at the New York State Theater

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Advertisment for Baird's Mammoth Minstrels

Advertisment for Baird's Mammoth Minstrels
Poster for Baird's Mammoth Minstrels showing two couples dancing. Woodcut, ca. 1880. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Illustration of Fiji Club Dance witnessed by the Wilkes Expedition on May 24, 1840

Illustration of Fiji Club Dance witnessed by the Wilkes Expedition on May 24, 1840
Undated illustration of a Fiji club dance witnessed by the Wilkes Expedition on May 24, 1840

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Cab Calloway;Scene From'Porgy/Bess';Stag

Cab Calloway;Scene From"Porgy/Bess";Stag
(Original Caption) Cab Calloway (1907-1994) as "Sportin Life" in a scene from the Davis-Breen production of "Porgy and Bess." Photograph, ca. 1953

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Guitarist Gyrating in Reclining Position

Guitarist Gyrating in Reclining Position
An enthusiastic guitarist gets down on the floor and gyrates in the reclining position amid a bundle of streamers

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Chubby Checker 'Twisting' & Singing

Chubby Checker "Twisting" & Singing
(Original Caption) 11/28/1961- Hollywood, CA- Chubby Checker "twists" away as he introduces the new dance craze to Hollywood celebrities at The Crescendo, a night club on the Sunset Strip

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Chubby Checker Doing The 'Twist'

Chubby Checker Doing The "Twist"
Chubby Checker does the Twist at the Crescendo, a night club on the Sunset Strip

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Chubby Checker Does The Twist

Chubby Checker Does The Twist
Singer Chubby Checker does the twist during a performance in front of Hollywood celebrities at The Crescendo on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. | Location: The Crescendo, Hollywood, California, USA

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Chubby Checker Doing 'Twist' W/Woman

Chubby Checker Doing "Twist" W/Woman
(Original Caption) 11/28/1961- Hollywood, CA- Chubby Checker "twists" away as he introduces the new dance craze to Hollywood celebrities at The Crescendo, a night club on the Sunset Strip

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Jacqui Toye Dancing In Cabaret Show

Jacqui Toye Dancing In Cabaret Show
(Original Caption) Jacqui Toye, English actress, dancing in the cabaret show, "The Roaring Twenties". photo, 1964

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Pat Wordsworth Entertaining Australian Soldiers in Vietnam

Pat Wordsworth Entertaining Australian Soldiers in Vietnam
(Original Caption) Near Bien Hoa, South Vietnam: An Australian soldier twists with bikini-clad showgirl, Pat (Big Pretzel) Wordsworth

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Andy Warhol and Susan Bottomly

Andy Warhol and Susan Bottomly
Pop artist Andy Warhol and his proteges, including Susan Bottomly, known as International Velvet, watch dancing following a Baroque music concert given by Carl Fisher on November 12, 1966

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Liberace

Liberace
Chortling to his opening night audience at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, master showman, Liberace, quipped, "When I go patriotic

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Boy Intrigued by Chanting Hare Krishnas

Boy Intrigued by Chanting Hare Krishnas
(Original Caption) MINNEAPOLIS

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Elizabeth Ray Dancing in Her Show

Elizabeth Ray Dancing in Her Show
(Original Caption) 6/22/1979-New York, New York- Elizabeth Ray, former Ohio State Representative Wayne Hays secretary

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Cab Calloway on Stage Dancing

Cab Calloway on Stage Dancing
(Original Caption) 9/13/1980-New York, NY- Singer-bandleader Cab Calloway, who will be 73 years young, as they say, in December, kicks up a storm during a "big band" salute at Town Hall

Background imageDance Performance Collection: Maurice Hines and Gregory Hines Dancing on Stage

Maurice Hines and Gregory Hines Dancing on Stage
(Original Caption) 1/4/1982-New York, NY- Maurice Hines (L) joins his brother Gregory in the finale of the smash Broadway musical "Sophisticated Ladies, " at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre


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