Stories
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Sex work and critical campaigners
When campaigners filmed secretly in the club where she worked, exotic dancer Ella Smith felt frightened and degraded. Here she speaks out about the attack on her livelihood.
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When contemporary dance meets dyspraxia
Discover why a rare neurological condition meant an enthusiastic club-night dancer struggled with formal dance classes. And how persisting with those classes paid off.
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Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
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Dancing for joy
Dancing is a mood enhancer, it increases social bonding and it improves creativity. Maybe you really can dance all your troubles away.
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Dancers possibly Marathas. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28729i- Archives and manuscripts
3 of the Dancers
Date: c.1894-1899Reference: RAMC/1242/2/30Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- E-books
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Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
Karina, LilianDate: 2004- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006863: Dancers from Saint Vitus on a pilgrimage to Meulebeke
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/36Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Semi-naked men and women from the dance company Momix Dancers use their bodies to form the words 'Stop AIDS Now', an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfen Österreichischs. Colour lithograph by Claudio Alessandri Design, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 675206i