Crashingly Beautiful

Zarina, Inwood Hill Park (6-46) from The Ballerina Project on Facebook

let us dance, 1930s.. Thank you, firsttimeuser.

Ruth Bernhard, Spanish Dancer, 1971. Beautiful. Thank you, melisaki.

Ballet Dancers, California
Photograph by James L. Amos, National Geographic:

Like nodding flowers, these ballerinas flow together as much for the palette of their costumes as for the choreography of the dance. Photographer James L. Blair has wisely photographed from above, allowing the soft pastels of the tutus to seem suspended against the simple dark background of the floor. —Annie Griffiths

From couleurs & nationalgeographicmagazine:

Alfred Eisenstaedt,Truempy Ballet School, Berlin, 1931. From melisaki.

Allenova Varola from avanishedtime.

(Source: avanishedtime)

Niddy Impekoven [November 2,1904-September 20,2002]

photo   by Eberth in Der Künstlerische Tanz Unserer Zeit by Hermann Aubel and Marianne Aubel. Leipzig: K. R. Langewiesche, 1928

from Crossett Library [more about her here]

Courtesy of billyjane.

Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton father of stroboscope and stroboscopic photography], “Dancers In Motion,” n.d. courtesy of billyjane.

Gjon Mili, “Stroboscobic Study,” Dancing, 1936 from  billyjane:

Vittorio Ronconi, “Sunset Silhouette,” from “Beauty and the Camera,”1957 courtesy of billyjane