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| Barbara Morgan Merce Cunningham in Root of the Unfocus 1944 gelatin silver print Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Edgar Degas Dancer ca. 1885 bronze statuette Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Baron Adolf De Meyer Vaslav Nijinsky in L'Après-midi d'un Faune (Ballets Russes) 1912 palladium print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Alan Halliday Rudolf Nureyev in L'Après-midi d'un Faune 1987 drawing, with watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| André Kertész The Dancing Faun 1919 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Conrad Felixmüller Dancer and Artist 1920 woodcut Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Dancing Figure ca. 1910-15 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Abraham Walkowitz Dance Abstraction - Isadora Duncan 1931 drawing, with watercolor Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Minor White Thaddeus E. Hayes, San Francisco 1952 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| J. Anthony Bill Egyptian Dancer ca. 1910 gelatin silver print Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Anne Estelle Rice Egyptian Dancers (inspired by Ballets Russes production of Cléopâtre) 1910 oil on canvas Brooklyn Museum |
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| William Roberts The Ballet ca. 1932 drawing (study for painting) Ingram Collection, London |
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| William Roberts The Ballet ca. 1932 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Henry Strater Fire Dance 1951 drawing Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Agostino Veneziano after Raphael Dance of Maenad and Satyrs 1516 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Sara Wallach I Remember Hanya Holm 1971 etching Minneapolis Institute of Art |
from An Improvisation for Angular Momentum
Walking is like
imagination, a
single step
dissolves the circle
into motion; the eye here
and there rests
on a leaf,
gap, or ledge,
everything flowing
except where
sight touches seen:
stop, though, and
reality snaps back
in, locked hard,
forms sharply
themselves, bushbank,
dentree, phoneline,
definite, fixed,
the self, too, then
caught real, clouds
and wind melting
into their directions,
breaking around and
over, down and out,
motions profound,
alive, musical!
– A.R. Ammons (1991)