Dancers: Tanzgruppe Ellen Tels: Mila Cirul - Nina Schelemskaja (War Dance)Etching and color aquatint, printed a la poupeé, ca. 1925, pencil titled and editioned, 38/50, printed by the artist on a cream wove paper that measures 26-3/8 x 26-7/8".

While in Vienna Max Pollak was part of the avant-garde dance scene. He did a series of intaglio portraits of dancers, usually costumed and posed from one of their noted performances.

Mila Cirul (1901 - 1977) was a Latvian dancer who trained at the Moscow Ballet under famed teacher Mikael Mordkin before pursuing modern dance, inspired by Isadora Duncan. She studied with influential modern dancer Ellen Tels, with whom she started the Ellen Tels School in Vienna in 1919.

Tels School dancer Schelemskaja-Schlesnaja (1897-1983) married Rudolf Bing (1902-1997) in 1929 in Vienna and the pair went on to England where they became British citizens in 1946.