Classical Dance Rehearsals

Historic ballet and dance rehearsals, showing intricate choreography and the grace of dancers in dynamic poses, creating a timeless visual impact.

Vintage Photograph. Ballet dancer performing an elegant pose on stage.

Anefo photo collection. New York City Ballet in Amsterdam, Rehearsal New York City Ballet. August 26, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Premiere of Eurydice by Dutch dance theater. January 17, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Premiere of National Ballet in Stadsschouwburg. Dance scenes. Ballet 'Jungle' by Rudi van Dantzig. December 20, 1961. Amsterdam

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Premiere "Holiday on Ice" in new RAI. Exclusive PAROOL. February 1, 1962

ELEANOR POWELL in BORN TO DANCE (1936), directed by ROY DEL RUTH.

Anefo photo collection. Rehearsal National Ballet. November 8, 1961

Anefo photo collection. New York City Ballet in Amsterdam, Rehearsal New York City Ballet. August 26, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. Ballet dancer performing an elegant pose on stage.

Anefo photo collection. Joan Haanappel in the Wienerijsrevue. October 31, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Performance by Marianne Hilaarides again at the Dutch Ballet, Marianne Hilalarides in her performance in Suite and Blanc. December 7, 1960

Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov in the Ballet The Death of the Rose by Gustav Mahler by Anonymous /Private Collection/1974/Photograph/Russia/Opera, Ballet, Theatre

Anefo photo collection. Premiere "Holiday on Ice" in new RAI. February 1, 1962

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Premiere of "De Zwanenmeer" by National Ballet in Apeldoorn, the Prince Simon Andre and White Swan Maria Koppers. March 9, 1965. Apeldoorn, Gelderland

Stars of to-morrow! - A view into a Berlin dance-school where the little girls are taught grace and dance. Many of these pupils will become stars later. July 01, 1938.

Anefo photo collection. Musical "Sweet Charity" Spanish dance, v.l.n.r. Milly Scott, Jasperina de Jong, Ronny Bierman. November 28, 1968

Cinderella And Her Prince...struggle to elude the soldiers of an Egyptian princess, coming between the romance of Leslie Caron and Michael Wilding in this lavish ballet sequence of M-G-M's "The Glass Slipper". In the ballet scenes, in which Miss Caron dreams of her involved romance with Cinderella's prince, the two stars are joined by dancers of Roland Petit's Ballets de Paris. Charles Walters directed and Edwin H. Knopf produced the new film in color, with Keenan Wynn, Estelle Winwood, Barry Jones and Elsa Lanchester also heading the cast. March 12, 1955.

Injured Margot Dances Again -- The lissome Margot practicing in London to-day. Margot Fonteyn, the Sadlers Wells prima ballerina, who has had her foot in plaster for two months following a fall on the stage, is now getting ready for her return to the ballet at Covent Garden on February 25. February 11, 1949. (Photo by Fox Photos)

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Opening furniture trade fair in Rotterdam. Ballet group dances the "Clean sleeper". November 6, 1961. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Premiere of National Ballet in Stadsschouwburg. Dance scenes. December 20, 1961. Amsterdam

Marcel Marceau, mime.

Anefo photo collection. Premiere of National Ballet in Stadsschouwburg. Dance scenes. December 20, 1961. Amsterdam

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Anefo photo collection. Rehearsal Spanish dancer Marianne in the Kurzaal in Scheveningen. July 31, 1958. Scheveningen, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. New ballet school opened in second weteringsdwarsstra from Nel Roos. February 20, 1965

Anefo photo collection. Holiday on Ice in Rai building, during show. September 24, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Premiere of the National Ballet in the Stadsschouwburg. Scene from "Jungle" by Rudi van Dantzig. December 20, 1961. Amsterdam

Anefo photo collection. Karmon Israel I Dancers. February 6, 1962

Vintage Photograph. Ballet dancer gracefully poised on stage in a classic tutu.

Anefo photo collection. Holiday on Ice in Valkenburg, Sjoukje during the show. July 23, 1964. Limburg, Valkenburg

Soviet Artists: Raisa Struchkova And Alexander Lapauri Ballet Dancers -- Madame struchkova is a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet; her husband and partner, Alexander Lapauri, is one of the principal male dancers with the same company. They are here seen in "Casse Noisette" ("The Nutcrackers"). - Raisa Struchkova and Alexander Lapauri are visiting England with the Soviet Cultural Delegation during November, 1954; after a short stay in London they will visit Manchester, Oxford, Derby, Liverpool, Plymouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Burnley, Chatham, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Leicester, Huddersfield, Bolton, Brighton, Coventry and Cardiff. November 17, 1954. (Photo by Camera Press).

Young ballet dancer, multiple image

Anefo photo collection. Performance of the Viennese ice revue in the Expohal in Hilversum. February 20, 1961. Hilversum

Anefo photo collection. Premiere Viennese ice revue in Apollohal in Amsterdam, Joan Haanappel during the show. October 7, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Ballet at NCPA ADD ART Festival 2019, Mumbai Copyright: xChouxChiang/DinodiaxPhotox

French Ballet In LondonA Picture taken during this afternoon's rehearsal of the Ballets des champs Elysees, which opens at the Cambridge theatre tonight. It shows Sonia Arova, one of the ballerinas. August 12, 1951.

Anefo photo collection. New York City Ballet in Amsterdam, Rehearsal New York City Ballet. Choreographer George Balanchine gives directions. August 26, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Musical "Sweet Charity" Spanish dance, v.l.n.r. Milly Scott, Jasperina de Jong, Ronny Bierman. November 28, 1968

The Reifers, foreground, do their "intimate entertainment" with a dinner at a flossv night club. October 30, 1953.

Margot Fonteyn Dances In New Ballet -- Principals in Ninette de Valois' new ballet 'Don Quixote' Robert Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn, are pictured during the dress rehearsal before the first performance at Covent Garden, London, to-night (Monday).Helpmann dances the part of Don Quixote, Margot is Dulcinea in the Sadler's Wells Ballet production. February 20, 1950. (Photo by Reuterphoto)

Maya Plisetskaya, Anonymous

Anefo photo collection. First rehearsal Hungarian dance group in Amsterdam. March 8, 1955. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Rehearsal of the Dutch Ballet with as a guest solist Irene Skorik, Irene Skorik as a soloist in "Grand Pas Classique". November 6, 1959

Anefo photo collection. Performance of the Moisejev Ballet from Moscow in the Ahoy in Rotterdam. November 19, 1960. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Premiere Viennese ice revue in Apollohal in Amsterdam, no. 18 jump. October 7, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Premiere of Eurydice by Dutch dance theater. Jaap Flier, Willy de la Bye. January 17, 1962

Ballerinas in white tutus gracefully stretch on a dance studio floor, captured in black and white. The Nutcracker, Bainbridge Island, USA

Anefo photo collection. Opera Platée from composer Jean Philippe Rameau in Carré .. June 13, 1968. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Premiere of National Ballet in Stadsschouwburg. Dance scenes. December 20, 1961. Amsterdam

Dinner in honor of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, 8:00PM. Kay Mazzo and Jay Norman, members of the Jerome Robbins Ballets: USA dance company, perform a scene from Afternoon of a Faun in the East Room of the White House during a dinner in honor of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shahanshah of Iran, and his wife, the Empress Farah Pahlavi. Washington, D.C.

Anefo photo collection. Garden of Europe by Carol Briels, the Weener Congress dances dressed. August 27, 1963

Anefo photo collection. Holiday on Ice in Rai building, Sjoukje Dijkstra during the final number, Premier. September 24, 1964

Anefo photo collection. New York City Ballet in Amsterdam, Rehearsal New York City Ballet. Choreographer George Balanchine gives directions. August 26, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Woman giving lessons to female dancers, England, Great Britain

Vintage Photograph. Ballet dancer in elegant pose on stage with curtain backdrop.

Anefo photo collection. Premiere of National Ballet in Stadsschouwburg. Dance scenes. Ballet; Jungle 'by Rudi van Dantzig. December 20, 1961. Amsterdam

Charleston dance. A Dance named for the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina and was popularized in the United States by a 1923 tune called The Charleston. The peak for the Charleston as a dance by the public was mid 1926 to 1927. Pictured Sonja Stjernquist and John Ivar Deckner dancing the Charleston 1950. Photo Kristoffersson ref BA67-10

Denver, Colorado: 1934 A ballet dancer appearing in a production.

Marcel Marceau, mime.

England's gift to the ballet world is Margot Fonteyn, star of the Sadler's wells company and one of the greatest ballerinas of all time. Here she dances the pas de deux from Giselle with Robert Helpmann, one of the great male dancers. October 17, 1955.

Stars Of The Grand Ballet Du Marquis De Cuevas: Serge Golovine.Golovine is one of the most Important dancers of Traditional international classic ballet, Born at Monaco 27-years-ago the son of a Slav father and French mother - He studied dancing under Julia Sedova, former Ballerina of the Russian Imperial theatre, during the war young Serge joined the Ballet de Monte Carlo and was acclaimed a star when dancing Spectre de La Rose, Sylphides and others however, his ambition was Paris and the Opera and he joined the Corps De Ballet there and later achieved the rank of 'Grnad Sujet. January 12, 1954. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).

Madrid, August 1993. Lourdes Novoa, a dancer with the National Ballet of Cuba, performing the role of the swan in the repertory ballet "Swan Lake".

JULIET PROWSE in CAN-CAN (1960), directed by WALTER LANG.

Anefo photo collection. Rehearsal National Ballet. November 8, 1961

Scene from the ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Anonymous

THE BOLSHOI BALLET (1957), directed by PAUL CZINNER.

Anefo photo collection. Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas. The Dutch Ballerina Marianne Sarstädt. June 5, 1962. Amsterdam

Anefo photo collection. Performance of the Moisejev Ballet from Moscow in the Ahoy in Rotterdam. November 19, 1960. Rotterdam, South Holland

Lille. Quatrieme Festival Cuturel International Etudiant. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Ballet Ivesiana on Vara TV Yvonne Vendrig and Nino van Tijn in the lead roles. November 1, 1968

Anefo photo collection. Final of the National Song Contest 1983 in The Hague. Singing group Music Hall during the final. February 23, 1983. The Hague, South Holland

Eddie Foy Jr., Gregory Ratoff, Constance Cummings, Dance Rehearsal Scene, on-set of the Film, "Broadway Thru A Keyhole", United Artists, 1933

Cristina Hoyos. Teatreneu, Barcelona. 2003.

Tatiana Garrido. Teatro Isabel la Católica. Granada, 2005.

MATT MATTOX and RUTA LEE in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954), directed by STANLEY DONEN.

Anefo photo collection. Bathing sack show in the Citytheater in Amsterdam. May 6, 1960. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Grand Gala du Disque in Kurhaus. Catherine Valente. September 30, 1961. Scheveningen, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Moscow state circus in Amsterdam. Ice dancers in action. November 2, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. A belly dancer mid twirl. Frame 1.

COMPANIA DE ZARZUELA JOSE TAMAYO (LA GRAN VIA-CHOTIS ELISEO).

Banquet and ball at the Duesseldorf Hilton Hotel in 1966 accompanied by protest with reference to misery and terror in Brazil, Germany, Europe

12/31/1954. A "Black Swan" scene, with Helene Trailine and Kalioujny. The opening night Photo: Rafael Cubiles.

Elsevier photo collection. Cilli Wang "De Schilder". 1947

Anefo photo collection. Premiere Viennese ice revue in Apollohal in Amsterdam, Joan Haanappel during the show. October 7, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

06/28/1981. Infanta Elena, ballet dancer at the Zarzuela theater.

Ballet at NCPA ADD ART Festival 2019, Mumbai Copyright: xChouxChiang/DinodiaxPhotox

Keystone Photo Shows: Yvette Chauvire, prime Ballorina who was recently dismissed by the Paris opera House London seen in her costume as she rehearses, watched by other members of the Company at the Empress Hall this afternoon. She appears in "Les Symlphidos". Rehearsing for the Nijinsky Galas hill. Chauvire at the Empress Hall.November 21, 1949. (Photo by Keystone)

Vintage photograph. High angle view of a female marionette dancing

Danilova Stampedes Audience -- Saucy ballet star Alexandra Danilova made a hit with a London audience this week when she impersonated a come-hither French tight rope walker in a ballet entitled Mile. Fifi at Royal Festival Hall. Here she rehearses with Anton Dolin who plays the father who vies for the affections of the dancer with his son. In the end she does not have to choose, but keeps both. July 19, 1955. (Photo by Daily Express Picture).

Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov in the Ballet The Death of the Rose by Gustav Mahler, Anonymous

Anefo photo collection. Holland Festival, the two Russian guest soloists Violetta Bovt and Arkadij Nikolaev during rehearsal. June 21, 1965

Ballerinas Dancing

Vintage photograph. Ballet dancer on white backround.

New York City Ballet, Berniere. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Anneke Gronloh in Snip and Snap Revue, here with Donald Jones and London Starlets. June 18, 1965

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