A full description of modern dances

Unknown artist

Era:: Late 1800s (Victorian Ballroom)
Source:: Library of Congress
Rights:: Public domain — free to use, share and adapt.
Recorded as:: public_domain

A full description of modern dances is an artwork in the LODance gallery of dance in art. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.

View at Library of Congress ↗Explore the Gallery

More dance artwork

Five frames of a motion picture showing figures in 1890s dress dancing in a Parisian street storefront scene.

Chromolithographed sheet-music cover with ornate title, pastoral ballroom scene framed by large horseshoe, decorative figures around border.

Relief print: crowded ballroom scene with classical columns, pale-gowned dancers, and dark demonic figures with wings amid smoke.

Lithographic poster for La Vague féerie-ballet showing five semi-nude women in classical poses arranged in pyramid above red lettering, with beach scene and

A moonlit woodland scene with a woman swinging over a waterfall while two figures in Regency dress watch from below.

Nocturnal bacchanal with pale, twisting female figures and dark fauns on grass, framed by an ornamental border with theatrical masks.