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| Anonymous Photographer National American Ballet 1924 digital print from glass negative Library of Congress, Washington DC |
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| Lucien Aigner Dancers in Air 1941 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Lois Greenfield Dancers (David Parsons Dance Company) 1982 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Max Dupain Emmy Towsey and Evelyn Ippen, Bodenweiser Dancers, performing Waterlilies 1937 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Barbara Morgan Erick Hawkins in El Penitente by Martha Graham 1940 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Barbara Morgan Erick Hawkins in El Penitente by Martha Graham 1940 gelatin silver print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Philippe Halsman Untitled 1944 gelatin silver print Brooklyn Museum |
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| Lotte Jacobi Claire Bauroff, Dancer, Berlin 1928 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Annie Leibovitz David Parsons, New York 1991 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Josef Sudek Untitled (Dancer) ca. 1930-40 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Abraham Walkowitz Dance Abstraction - Isadora Duncan 1917 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Auguste Préault after Antonio Canova Dance of the Sons of Alcinoüs before 1879 drawing Musée du Luxembourg, Paris |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Spirit of the Dance (after façade figure, Opéra Garnier) ca. 1870 plaster Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Jan de Bisschop Dancing Bacchante from the Borghese Vase before 1671 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Warrington Colescott The Naked Dance 1948 screenprint Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Malcolm Roberts Ballet Movements 1937 lithograph Philadelphia Museum of Art |
from The Spleen
When by its magic lantern Spleen
With frightful figures spreads life's scene
And threat'ning prospects urged my fears,
A stranger to the luck of heirs,
Reason, some quiet to restore,
Showed part was substance, shadow more.
With Spleen's dead weight though heavy grown,
In life's rough tide I sunk not down,
But swam, 'till Fortune threw a rope,
Buoyant on bladders filled with hope.
– Matthew Green (1737)