This page highlights Artstor content related to theater and dance, including images of costumes, venues, and staged performances from around the world, as well as portraits and performance shots of notable playwrights, theater directors, choreographers, set and costume designers, actors, and dancers.
Image source: Edgar Degas. The Dance Class. 1874. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Artstor’s theater and dance content is sourced from museums, photo agencies, and archives such as:
Artstor's Education and Content teams curate groups of images in a number of disciplines. The below image groups are available for theater and dance:
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The Historical Scenic Design (Alexander Adducci) collection includes elements from almost 90 opera settings, with hundreds of backdrops and borders, and thousands of framed scenic units, as well as maquettes. It comprises virtually the entire repertoire of operas produced by Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company, and also documents the development of opera theater in Chicago, with examples of theatrical scenery from the Chicago Civic Opera Company, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Grand Opera Company, and the Chicago Opera Association.