 |
| Pietro Torrini The Dance in the Barn ca. 1900-1910 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
 |
| Käthe Kollwitz Dance around the Guillotine 1901 etching and aquatint Princeton University Art Museum |
 |
| Georg Tappert Dance in the Cabaret 1918 woodcut Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
 |
| Friedrich Karl Gotsch Shimmy (Dance Bar) 1922-23 woodcut Milwaukee Art Museum |
 |
| Horst von Harbou Robot Maria dancing in Nightclub (film production) 1926 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
 |
| Russell Lee Mission Beach Dance Hall, San Diego 1941 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
 |
| Alfred Eisenstaedt Teenage Dance Party 1946 gelatin silver print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
 |
| Cor Basart Dance Hall 1951 color woodblock print Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
 |
| Raoul Dufy Tucson Square Dance 1951 watercolor Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
 |
| Roy DeCarava Dancers, New York 1956 gelatin silver print Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
 |
| Bill Owens The Social Dance Club is for Adults 1970-71 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
 |
| Nan Goldin Skinhead Dancing, London 1978 silver dye bleach print Yale University Art Gallery |
 |
| Ruth Maddison Vehicle Builders Union Ball, Collingwood Town Hall 1979 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
 |
| Garry Winogrand Untitled 1981 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
 |
| Chris Steele-Perkins Interior of Red-Lit Dance Palace 1982 C-print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
 |
| David Fawcett Bearded Academics Dancing 2003 acrylic on paper The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire |
from Intermezzo
He strode to the center of the lights and cried
"I was brought up on having my knife taken away
by them, so I am unhurt but unhappy. Won't someone
drown me in rainbow trout, and masturbate and pray
for me until I am entirely gone into flowers?
Oh great bed of the world, don't I deserve you?
your great hands closing over my thighs
in the slender kiss of your unweeping blue?
I have resisted the rosy temptations
and their pastured snares and religions' high
fragility. I have earned nothing. I have not been
picturesque. Take me, as if I were wounded, into the sky."
– Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)