Dancers (27 Subjects)
Young dancer from Algiers.
Composition: Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens together with the port of Faliro, close to Piraeus.
Gypsies dancing outside the walls of Thessaloniki. Engraving by Almèry Lobel-Riche.
Turkish dance.
Greek dance.
A Turkish dancer, dancing before her master.
Muslim woman dancer from Istanbul.
Woman dancer of Cairo (Almeh).
Ottoman dancers.
Dance of the dervishes of the Kadri order.
“Pano-kato” dance.
Feast of St. Jason and Sosipatros in Corfu island.
A musician and a woman dancer of the Harem. The lady responsible for keeping order in the Harem.
Turkish male and female dancers.
The Erechtheion from the southwest. In the distance, on the left, a group of Turkish musician who customarily performed on the Acropolis every day at three o'clock in the afternoon.
Gathering of devout Muslims at the Tower of the Winds in Athens, which was used as a tekije (dervish lodge). Sixteen ostrich eggs hang from the ceiling to avert the evil eye. A depiction of the first stage of the whirling dervishes' ritual: the faithful praise God and Prophet Muhammad.
The dance of the dervishes at the Tower of the Winds in Athens, which was used as a tekije (dervish lodge). Sixteen ostrich eggs hang from the ceiling to avert the evil eye. A depiction of the final stage of the whirling dervishes' ritual: The two main dancers whirl while holding each other by the sash. In green, wearing a white turban, the Sheich or head of the Dervishes, who animates the dancers with his voice and by playing the tambour.
Greek dance.
Ottoman woman dancer.
Theatre production at Hanoi (today in Vietnam) in the presence of the king of Tonkin and his court.
Frontispiece. Dance scene before the altar of goddess Artemis.
Dance scenes from ancient Greek vases and reliefs 6. Greek dancer from Epirus in traditional costume (from the edition by J. H. Hobhouse, 1813).
Dance scenes from ancient Greek vases and reliefs
Dance scenes from ancient Greek vases.
Dance in Greece.
Young dancer.
Leisure scene at Beni Suef.