Amazing Vintage Photo Portraits of Nina Payne, The Dancer Who Was Ahead of Her Time
Nina Payne was a dancer who performed in vaudeville, cabaret and modernist shows. She was born in Indiana in 1890 and moved to New York in 1910. Continue reading »
Artist Uses Wind Dancers To Express Difficult Topics Like BLM Movement, Gun Violence, And Poverty In Her Stunning Paintings
Why Can’t You Just Pull Yourself Up
Whether you’ve seen them in movies or pictures, or seen them personally, you probably know what a wind dancer is. It’s a solemn, happy stick figure that flails about in the wind near a gas station or some dollar store. Continue reading »
Limitless Boundaries Of The Human Body In Photographs By Cody Choi, Professional Dancer And Photographer
By Cody Choi, former Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake dancer & Ada Ooi formed in 2008, explores the human body and mind through different art media. Fearless in all kinds of creative expedition, the company collaborates with arts professionals around the world to experience the limitless boundaries of the human body. Continue reading »
A German Dancer Couple Created Extravagant And Playful Costumes Before They Committed Suicide In 1924
Knowledge of the astonishingly bizarre and tragic art of Walter Holdt and Lavinia Schulz is obscure and largely based on the rediscovery in 1986 of artifacts deposited in a Hamburg museum back in 1925. Continue reading »
A Photo Serie Where The Dancer And Photographer Arthur Cadre Twist His Body Into Mesmerising Position
“Wonderland Creatures” is a serie of photographies, where the dancer and contortionist Arthur Cadre twist his body into mesmerising position. He turn himself into mysterious creatures evolving in different landscape. His work make us look at the human body from a different perspective. Continue reading »
Ballet Dancer Claire Robertson Promotes Scottish Ballet’s Nutcracker
Claire Robertson from Scottish Ballet, poses dressed as the Good Snow Flake inside a life size snow globe on Buchanan Street during a promotion for Scottish Ballet’s festive production of The Nutcracker on November 20, 2012 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Nutcracker opens at the Theatre Royal on December the 8th, the production delves deep into the darker reaches of Hoffmann’s original tale in a fresh and vivid retelling of the famous Christmas story. In photographs by Jeff J. Mitchell. Continue reading »
