ballet

[Ballerina in white costume with flowers in dance pose]

V35184 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyrighted 1890 by the Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." No. 2. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Adeline Genee, holding basket of flowers, in ballet pose

Dame Adeline Genée DBE (born Anina Kirstina Margarete Petra Jensen; 6 January 1878 – 23 April 1970) was a Danish-British ballet dancer. Adeline Genée performed with many of the world's leading ballet companies... More

Ballet - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Ballet: Anna Duncan dancing, lantern slide

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Genthe collection - Desha dancing

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: photocopy of photograph from magazine with identifying caption

Ballet: Margaret Severn dancing

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Genthe collection - Margaret Severn dancing

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G401-3299-B-026 (vd# 7310)

The Girl in the moon - Public domain portrait print

Scantily clad woman on crescent shape of moon; seated, facing left, with left arm raised. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No copyright renewals. No. 5.

Marg't. Zolnay, 101223 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from related neg. LC-F8-26908. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Ph... More

Nat. Am. Ballet, 8/20/24 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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National Am. Ballet, [8/20/24] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Miss Margaret Zolnay, 6/18/25 - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a tutu. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Sports and Touring Ballet Revue [3]

Porter 7 in The Sports and Touring Ballet Revue (Content) 1925 (date)

Madam Lubouska, National American Ballet, 6/30/25

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Morton Gould Collection

[ Every soul is a circus, No. 1]

photographer unknown (General) Reproduced with permission of Katherine Duke. (Copyright Notice)

[ Martha Graham in Every soul is a circus]

The Library was unable to locate the rights holder for this photograph and has elected to make it available online as an exercise of fair use for strictly non-commercial educational uses. If any individuals or ... More

[ Robert Cohan in Dark meadow] - Martha Graham Collection

Photographer unknown. (General) Reproduced with permission of Martha Graham Resources, a division of The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, www.marthagraham.org. (Copyright Notice)

Martha Graham in Lamentation, No. 4

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Woodmere Academy, Woodmere, Long Island. Prisoners base

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Centro Gallego, was a Galician social club in 1914. The National Balle...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

Erick Hawkins Collection

Grammar of the art of dancing, theoretical and practical lessons in th...

Translated by Benjamin P. Coates. Supplemented by: "Musical score of the Grammar of the art of dancing, by Friedrich Albert Zorn, edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe ..." (1 p.l., 37 p. 21x28 cm.) published: Bosto... More

Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Darlene Blackburn Dance Troupe, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicag...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-36, Darlene Blackburn Dance Troupe at the Museum of Science and Industry

Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Ballet scene, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

A968 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyrighted 1870 by Ferd. Mayer & Sons, New York." Attributed to P. Kramer. Created by "Ferd. Mayer & Sons Mammoth Lith. Print, 96 & 98 Fulton St., New York." Lower left corner missi... More

Photograph of (L to R) Pavel Koribut-Kubitovich (cousin of Diaghilev),...

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[Portrait of Alicia Markova, "The Dying Swan"]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XV FF 9. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

Photograph of Marius Petipa, 1899, no photographer

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Isadora Duncan, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Photograph of Vaslav Nijinsky, 1900, no photographer

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Chas. H. Yale's everlasting Devil's auction 20th edition and best ever...

Created and "copyright 1901 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 5514. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Erotic Art: The dance: allegro - Public domain portrait print

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Mme. Galanta, Ballet Russe - Public domain photograph

A couple of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dancer, dance, performing...

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Genthe collection - Anna Pavlova dancing

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. vd image reversed ID: LC-G432-1163-003 (vd# 16714); As I remember, facing p. 177

Ballet: Hilda Beyer dancing, lantern slide

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Madam Lubouska - Public domain portrait photograph

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Photograph of Vera Nemchinova as the Girl in Blue and cast, Les Biches...

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Photograph of Alexandra Danilova in Apollo, n.d. 1928?, no photographe...

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Katherine Dunham in the ballet L'Ag'Ya, which premiered in 1938

Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis (Copyright Notice) Public domain photograph - dance, dancer, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph ... More

[Portrait of Cozy Cole, New York, N.Y.(?), ca. Sept. 1946]

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 079 (gottlieb assignment) 079 (assign... More

Photograph of Dance Theatre of Harlem in a reconstruction of Les Noces...

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Montgomery Ballet performs "A New Ballet by Paul Gilliam" at the Davis...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Libretto. Italian

del Bussani ; consacrato a ma damoiselle madamoiselle Gras Iggons figlia dell'illustrissimo, & eccellentissimo cavalier Tomaso Iggons inviato estraordinario del rè della Gran Bertagna [sic], appresso la Serenis... More

Chopin Concerto 2 - Library of Congress performing arts encyclopedia

Set design for Chopin Concerto (Content) 1937 (date)

Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Program Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes de Serge de Diaghilew (T...

Contains list of season's repertory and list of season's artists; set designs for Le Renard and Mavra; costume design for Le Renard, Aurora's Wedding, and Mavra; photographs of Bronislava Nijinska, Igor Stravin... More

S. Diaghilev Ballet 1925-26 [1]

The Library of Congress has a number of online resources related to the performing arts, including a Performing Arts Encyclopedia, which is a comprehensive guide to the library's collections in this area. The e... More

[Portrait of Alicia Markova, "The Dying Swan"]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XV FF 10. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

The Metropolitan Opera Company presents Serge de Diaghileff's Ballet ...

[Two ballerinas, blond woman in front with brunette woman behind]

V35183 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyrighted 1890 by the Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." No. 1. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Photograph of Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev in Cologne (2), 1924

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" Original'nyi Ruskii Balet / 1932-1952." [Original Russian Ballet (i....

page marked "Predislovie" [preface] is unnumbered and consists of a single page; subsequent pages are numbered 1-224. (General)

Ballet girls - Print, Library of Congress collection

28350 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Knapp & Co., copyrigh... More

Adoree Villany - Public domain portrait photograph

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Denishawn dancers, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Photograph of Adolph Bolm in Sadko--Au Royaume Sous-Marin, n.d., no ph...

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Photograph of Petrouchka, n.d. (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), Studio-L...

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Photograph of Bronislava Nijinska and V. Karnetzky in Polovtsian Dance...

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Photograph of Romeo and Juliet, n.d., no photographer

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Photograph of Aurora's Wedding, n.d. (later Ballet Russe Company); Rao...

music by Tchaikovsky, partly re-orchestrated by Stravinsky; choreography by Marius Petipa, arranged and with additional dances by Nijinska (General)

Michel Fokine in Schéhérazade, n.d., no photographer

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Photograph of Serge Diaghilev and Léonide Massine, n.d.

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Photograph of Vaslav Nijinsky in Pavillon d'Armide, 1909, no photograp...

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Photograph of Michel Fokine as Prince Ivan and Tamara Karsavina as the...

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Ralph Lyford, Ass't Conductor, Boston Opera, Mrs. Ralph Lyford (Ella G...

Photograph shows composer and conductor Ralph Lyford (1882-1927). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011

Genthe collection - Isadora Duncan dancer

Title devised. Credit line: Genthe photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Genthe photograph collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/l... More

Ballet rehearsals, New York City, ca. 1916: [Unidentified group of 6 w...

Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: NY NYC T... More

Desha dancing, lantern slide lantern slide

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[Dancing earth doing can-can] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as jacket for: This Giddy Globe / Peter Simple. New... More

Nat. Am. Ballet, 8/20/24 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Dance] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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National American Ballet, [8/20/24]

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Elsie Robinson, Nat'l. American Ballet, [6/30/25]

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Miss Margaret Zolnay, 61825 - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More

Miss Dorothy Brautigam of Nat'l. American Ballet, 6/30/25

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National American Ballet, 6/30/25

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Children performing - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco This glass negative might sh... More

Ballet dancer. Ballet dancer at National Theater II

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[ Martha Graham in Lamentation, No. 10]

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Martha Graham in Letter to the World, No. 1

Reproduced with permission of Janet Morgan/The Barbara Morgan Archive. For further information e-mail [email protected] (Copyright Notice) Reproduced with permission of Martha Graham Resources, a divisi... More

Martha Graham and Dance Company in "Appalachian Spring"

photograph of performance, from the Christian Science Monitor Jan 18 1945. (General) Reproduced with permission of Martha Graham Resources, a division of The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, www.mart... More

Fantasy 1939 (8 Photographs) - Public domain, Federal Theatre Project ...

Federal Theatre Project Collection: Production Records-Photographic Negatives File. The Photographic Negatives File is a collection of approximately 9,000 negatives, mainly from the New York, NY units, document... More

Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)

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[Ouverture et airs du ballet de Telemaque]

Ballet choreographed by Pierre Gardel. Originally for orchestra; arranged for piano. Title from another copy of the work. LC copy trimmed to 31 cm and lacking title page and plate number; possibly one of two pu... More

[Ouverture et airs du ballet de Telemaque]

Ballet choreographed by Pierre Gardel. Originally for orchestra; arranged for piano. Title from another copy of the work. LC copy trimmed to 31 cm and lacking title page and plate number; possibly one of two pu... More

S. Diaghilev Ballet 1925-26 [1]

The Library of Congress has a number of online resources related to the performing arts, including a Performing Arts Encyclopedia, which is a comprehensive guide to the library's collections in this area. The e... More

Choreographer Anges de Mille (left describes her introduction of class...

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The Metropolitan Opera Company presents Serge de Diaghileff's Ballet ...