The collection provides a study of the changing professional tastes in dancers' physiques, techniques, and costumes, and the suspended movement captured in the photographs permits a closer view of the poised tension and power in the dancers' bodies. In addition to Edward Steichen's famous 1920 photograph of Isadora Duncan among the columns of the Parthenon, there are photographs from the 1920's and 1930's by E. O. Hoppe and Imogen Cunningham of the dancers Vaslav Nijinsky and Martha Graham. Pictures from the 1940s and 1950s include photographs by Andre Kertez and Cornell Capa of Karen Conrad and dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet. Among the more recent pictures is a 1990 Annie Liebowitz photograph of Mikhail Baryshnikov and the choreographer Mark Morris. The museum is closed on Mondays and holidays.
Admission is free.