Tag Archives: dancing

Tap dancers

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

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Glass negative, quarter plate, four uniformed boys in a dance studio, Tom Lennon, Sydney,
Australia, 1932-1947
The boys are posin...

This photograph, from the Tom Lennon photographic archive collection, shows four little boys posed in a dance studio. The boys appear to be wearing tap shoes… More

World Dance Day

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

Today is World Dance Day and to celebrate here is a photograph from the Tom Lennon Archive. This photograph shows dancers on the floor at… More

St Patrick’s Day

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph shows students from the Janice Curry school dancing at the Powerhouse Museum in 1998. Today is St Patrick’s Day, a holiday in Ireland… More

Korean performers

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Paula Bray

Korean public programs: Echo of a millennium Korean dancers performing in the Coles Theatre. Women dancing with fans. In association with The s...

This photograph was taken during the opening of our Korean exhibition Spirit of jang-in: treasure of Korean metal craft. This was taken with a slow… More

Dancing in Shanghai, 1926

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph from an unknown studio shows Florence, ‘Bobby’ Broadhurst and an unidentified dance partner in Shanghai in 1926. The photograph was probably used to… More

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.