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Shall We Dance?

by The Library of Congress

Put on your dancing shoes and take a spin through this group of dance-related images from the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division.

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Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Dancing the jarabe tapatia at Triple L Club dance (LOC)

Paris. Weekly dances are held at the Gare St. Lazare, Paris, and are most popular affairs. Soldiers and sailors look forward to these dances where real American girls are there to dance with them (LOC)

Scene from authentic Native American dances at the Indian Village on the rodeo grounds of the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city (LOC)

[Woman in dance costume dancing on flower] (LOC)

Marathon dancers still going (LOC)

[Dancing couples, no. 1] (LOC)

Kankan odori no uta (LOC)

Le Frou Frou 20', journal humoristique (LOC)

[Portrait of Alvin Ailey] (LOC)

West side story (LOC)

Myra Kinch & group in concert of modern dance now! (LOC)

[Irene and Vernon Castle, full-length, in dancing position] (LOC)

Everything is radio on Marconi's yacht - a "personal dance" on board the palatial vessel while on the trip to Albany (LOC)

New York City ballet (LOC)

Buffalo dancer (LOC)

[Anna Pavlova, full-length portrait, standing, facing upward, in dancing costume with dancing partner Lawrence Novikoff playing guitar] (LOC)

Hammond Dance Studio classes, 1941 (LOC)

Radio City Rockettes [New York] (LOC)

[Merce Cunningham Dance Company performing "Fractions," New York City] (LOC)

[Ballet dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Patricia McBride of the New York City Ballet Company rehearsing in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)

Unidentified dancer, possibly an Elizabeth Duncan dancer (LOC)

Isadora Duncan dancers (LOC)

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tap dancing class in the gymnasium at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa] (LOC)

Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi (LOC)