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| Clarence H. White Barnard Greek Games Dancer 1911 platinum print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki Witches' Dance from Macbeth ca. 1780 etching Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Pellegrino Tibaldi Dancing Figure ca. 1555-58 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Jan de Bisschop Dancing Bacchante (after the Borghese Vase) before 1671 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Hubert Robert Sheet of Sketches with Dancing Women ca. 1798 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Arthur Bowen Davies Study of Two Dancers ca. 1915-20 drawing (colored chalks) Brooklyn Museum |
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| Emil Nolde Dancers ca. 1922 woodcut Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Jean Descamps Isadora Duncan ca. 1925-30 pâte de verre Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Barbara Morgan Martha Graham in Lamentation 1935 gelatin silver print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Barbara Morgan Martha Graham in Lamentation 1941 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Ballet Interlude from Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz 1893 lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Louis Fleckenstein Dance of the Rocks before 1924 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Arnold Genthe Anna Duncan (Isadora Duncan Dancer) ca. 1917 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean de Gourmont the Elder Three Dancers before 1551 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Fritz Klimsch Dancer 1898 plaster Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Léonard Thiry after Giulio Romano The Dance ca. 1540 etching and engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
from St Patrick's Day
I could resign these structures and devices,
these fancy flourishes and funny voices
to a post-literate, audio-visual realm
of uncial fluorescence, song and film,
as curious symptoms of a weird transition
before we opted to be slaves of fashion –
for now, whatever the ancestral dream,
we give ourselves to a vast corporate scheme
where our true wit is devalued once again,
our solitude known only to the rain.
– Derek Mahon (2011)