Dance | Scala Archives

From dance scenes on ancient Egyptian, Etruscan or Roman walls, all the way to dance shoes from the mid 18th century. The variety of dance related content is almost endless. Search the database or browse below a few examples and enjoy everything from dance costumes, to photographs of famous dancers or dance pieces, dance notation, sculptures or figurines, to paintings by contemporary artists, posters, performance pieces and famous locations. Check out the examples below by clicking on one image to enlarge it and and then scroll through the rest.

Two dancers in a raised arms pose Limestone relief, tomb of Nekheptk, Egypt

Etruscan fresco of female and male dancer. Tomb of the Lionesses, Tarquinia, Italy

Detail of Red-figure pottery. Vase Musician and dancer. Museo Provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano, Lecce, Italy

Mosaic of a dance scene between Dionysus and Tiaso. Archeological Area, Argo, Greece

Relief with three dancing maenads. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

George Catlin, Oil on canvas, Ojibwa native americans doing the dance of the brave. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA

Oil on canvas paesant dance during a feast in the country. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Engraving of XIX century, quadrille pose. Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France

Print of a french line dancing of the XIX Century. Musee Carnavalet, Paris , France

Polichrome photo oa a dancing shoe in silk and leather. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Engraving, two dancers in costume seen from behind. Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France

Pastel and chalk on buff paper, dancer in blue putting her shoes

Oil on canvas a man and a woman dancing embraced. Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Black and white photo of Isadora Duncun dancing. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain

Eight Watercolours of the dancer Isadora Duncan

Sequence of black and white photos of a dancing woman. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA

Detail of the cover of an italian Strenna with a folk dance on the beginning of XX century. Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, Italy

Black and white photo of Anna Pavlova and Michael Mordkin performing the Russian Dance

Watecolour and pencil of a thirties dancer in etnic costume

Black and white photo f the dancer Ida Rubinstein

Oil on canvas people dancing the Pan Pan dance. Musee National d'Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Pencil skecht of two dancers by Pablo Picasso. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA

Black and white photo of Chorus girls in the scene of the german revue Alles aus Liebe on 1927 representing a rainbow

Oil on canvas, couples of dancers in a club. Sammlung Moderne Kunst in der Pinakothek der Moderne - Bayerische Staatsgemaeldesammlungen, Munich, Germany

German magazine Elegante Welt with dance shoes. Kunstbibliothek - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ceramics of two dancers ina flamenco pose

Dancer Detail de la nouvelle facade du theatre des Folies Bergere

The famous dancer Margarethe Paluka in a Kirchener watecolour and pencil

Black and white photo of two burmese dancers, 1936. The man is wearing a mask

Bronze and carved ivory statuette of a dancer, on marble base

Black and white photo of the Sandler’s Wells Ballet rehersals of Faust ballet

Colored postcard of two can can dancers. Mary Evans Picture Library, London, Great Britain

Three dancers in a Martha Graham’s choreography jumping in air. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA

Litography of the dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar, his face and in pose. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA

Black and white photo of the english dancer Margot Fonteyn in her house reparing her ballet shoes

Gold dance pointe shoes. Museo degli Argenti, Florence, Italy

Black and white photo of 25 steps of a tango passage made with shoes and lines

Black and white photo of two tango dancers in a pose in a danceroom. Mary Evans Picture Library, London

Mural Study, women and men dancing indoor a country dance. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA

Dance Performance the ten dancers of the Deborah Hay’s company. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA

Black and white photo of Rudolf Nureyev and Monica Mason in a moment of the choreografy Field Figures by Gen Tetley. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain

Watercolour, three dancer on a golden leaf

Black and white photo of two ballroom dancers. Mary Evans Picture Library, London

Pottery figure group, modelled as three dancers polychrome ceramic

Acrylic on unstretched canvas pink figure dancing

Polychrome photo, Odette and Odile reflexing in a mirror

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