Person who uses their body to express themselves through movement and dance

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A doctor goes off gallivanting with two young dancers. Colour process print after by J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Siam (Thailand]): two dancers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.

The Cachucha dance performed by Fanny Cerrito and Arthur Saint-Léon. Coloured lithograph by E.C.F. Guérard, 1845.

A troupe of nautch dancing girls, standing in a line holding hands, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.

A group of men, some in drag, dancing the Promenade on a lawn.

A drunken scene in a dancing hall with a sly customer eyeing a girl. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Burma: musicians and dancers perform while courtiers pay homage to a king. Gouache painting.

Marguerite Agniel posing with her back arched and feet in the air, wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban.

The characters (in silhouette) from Molière's play 'Le malade imaginaire'. Process print.

An episode in the play "The dancing barber" by Charles Selby: Narcissus Fitzfrizzle attending to the hair of Alfred Fitzfrolic in the rooms of the latter. Etching by R. Cruikshank.

Marguerite Agniel posing leaning back wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.

Marguerite Agniel posing in a somersault position wearing a silver two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.

A man, in a satin tunic and fur hat, dancing a "Cossack" measure in a studio setting.

Semi-naked men and women from the dance company Momix Dancers use their bodies to form the words 'Stop AIDS Now', an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfen Österreichischs. Colour lithograph by Claudio Alessandri Design, ca. 1995.

Marguerite Agniel kneeling on one leg and stretching the other behind her.

A nautch dancing girl, sitting back with her hands behind her head, in a studio setting.

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Dancers

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Images referencing Dancers

Works from the collections

Marguerite Agniel posing in a somersault position wearing a silver two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.

A man, in a satin tunic and fur hat, dancing a "Cossack" measure in a studio setting.

Semi-naked men and women from the dance company Momix Dancers use their bodies to form the words 'Stop AIDS Now', an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfen Österreichischs. Colour lithograph by Claudio Alessandri Design, ca. 1995.

Marguerite Agniel kneeling on one leg and stretching the other behind her.

A nautch dancing girl, sitting back with her hands behind her head, in a studio setting.

Dancers

Images from the collections

Images referencing Dancers

Works from the collections

Marguerite Agniel posing in a somersault position wearing a silver two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.

A man, in a satin tunic and fur hat, dancing a "Cossack" measure in a studio setting.

Semi-naked men and women from the dance company Momix Dancers use their bodies to form the words 'Stop AIDS Now', an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfen Österreichischs. Colour lithograph by Claudio Alessandri Design, ca. 1995.

Marguerite Agniel kneeling on one leg and stretching the other behind her.

A nautch dancing girl, sitting back with her hands behind her head, in a studio setting.

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