Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p1232

    p1232

    • ARTIST: Sonia Delaunay (France, 1885-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Project for poster and costume for the dancer Gaby and the Petit Casino
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1917
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain, Madrid
  • s6085

    s6085

    • ARTIST: The CHC Group (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A,B: Komos (including woman) between sphinxes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure skyphos vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found near Naples, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p7471

    p7471

    • ARTIST: Joseph Thürmer (Germany, 1789-1833) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Southeastern view of the Olympeion (Südöstliche Ansicht des Olympieion). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1819
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.1 x 32.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5379

    s5379

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girls (Gwawa'zee, or Gha'zee'yehs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • s2373

    s2373

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 18
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p4299

    p4299

    • TITLE OF WORK: The foot of Marie Taglioni (La pointe de Marie Taglioni)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • COMMENTS: Saint Petersburg, 1840
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0066

    p0066

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsal of a ballet on stage (Répétition d'un ballet sur la scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 81 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Degas"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8070

    p8070

    • ARTIST: Randolph Schwabe (U.K., 1885-1948) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Enrico Cecchetti
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1922
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: ballet-master, instruction, portrait
  • p4354

    p4354

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Aenea or La Mouche d'Or in "Les pilules du diable"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9101

    p9101

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the opera "Le rossignol" (The nightingale), act 2: "Palais de l'empereur. Salle du trône" (Emperor's palace. Throne room)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache, pastel and collage on paper
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: "Le rossignol", opera by the Balets Russes. Music by I. Stravinsky after a tale by Andersen; choreography by B. Romanov, scenery and costumes by A. Benois. In 1916 the opera was presented with scenery
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris, China
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, opera, scenery,
  • p8744

    p8744

    • TITLE OF WORK: La Carmagnole
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1795
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: After the French Revolution, citizens dance around the Liberty Tree
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: politics, tree
  • s0285

    s0285

    • ARTIST: Cameron, lieutenant (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dance at Kibaiyeli
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.1 x 31.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Central Africa, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: drum, flute
  • p1659

    p1659

    • ARTIST: Theo van Doesburg (Netherlands, 1883-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Russian dancer's rhythm
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 135.9 x 61.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Russia
  • s4191

    s4191

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tingel Tangel Waltz (Tingeltangelwalzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: waltz, Tingeltangelwalzer, couple, ballroom
  • s0657

    s0657

    • ARTIST: Hubert von Herkomer (Germany, 1849-1914) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches in the Bavarian Alps - The "Schuhplattl" dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria, Alps
    • DANCE FORM: Schuhplattler, traditional, couple, German
    • KEYWORDS: guitar
  • p8986

    p8986

    • ARTIST: Joseph Selleny (Austria, 1824-1875) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball on board the imperial warship "Novara" (Ein Ball am Bord der K. K. Fregatte Novara)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 35.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: navy, military, ship
  • p0218

    p0218

    • TITLE OF WORK: Redskins - Scalp dance (Peaux-rouges - La danse du scalp)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by George Catlin entitled "Peaux-rouges" (Redskins)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • s4188

    s4188

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marietta
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Spanish dance
  • p0806

    p0806

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spinelly, star of the Palais Royal Theaer (Spinelly, vedette du Théâtre du Palais Royal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, magazine cover
    • DATE: 1919
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p3894

    p3894

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sparta, a review of shows (Sparta. Revista de espectaculos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1933
    • COMMENTS: Tango
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p2131

    p2131

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the ballet "Renard" (second version)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 13.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2875

    s2875

    • ARTIST: Daniel Vierge (Spain, 1851-1904) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Yedda" ballet in 3 acts by Philippe Gille, Arnold Mortier and L. Mérante, on music by Olivier Métra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 30.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Presented at the Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: stage, classical ballet
  • p0499

    p0499

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two young girls dancing or fleeing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, calcaire
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 85 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Metope of the temple of Hera found in the sanctuary of the Silaris, at Foce del Sele. Probably Nereids, dancing or running.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
  • p1422

    p1422

    • ARTIST: Vincenzo Marinelli (Italy, 1820-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Megara
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 53.5 x 105.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Napoli 1878". Auctioned at Sotheby's London on 25/03/1987
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Megara
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p9844

    p9844

    • ARTIST: Tommaso Borgonio (Italy, 1620-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Il tabacco baletto", Don Alonzo d'Ovieda and Don Lucas de Matadoros ("The tobacco ballet")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • COMMENTS: "Il tabacco balletto", alle dame l' ultimo giorno di Carnevale, primo di Marzo, mille sei cento cinquanta. Ballato in Torino (A ballet presented in Turin on 01/03/1650, last day of Carnival). The Toba
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Torino, Turin, Venezuela
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3169

    s3169

    • ARTIST: Girardet (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Public dancer (Danseuse publique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1787
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 11.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: professional
  • s1028

    s1028

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the second act of the "The foundling" at Terry's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.4 x 22.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, popular
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s1863

    s1863

    • ARTIST: Lucien Maillol (France, 1896-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers seated (Deux danseuses assises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1917
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Salon de Paris 1917
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, stage
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p7025

    p7025

    • TITLE OF WORK: The festival of Avurudu-Mangaliya in Ceylon (La fête de l'Avurudu-Mangaliya,à Ceylan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 21.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Le jour de l'an aux Indes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9638

    p9638

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the ball of the Porte St. Martin (Au bal de la Porte Saint-Martin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and colored crayons
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.7 x 17.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the initials and inscribed "Porte St. Martin"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s5383

    s5383

    • ARTIST: Albert von Keller (Germany, 1844-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dream-dancer Madeleine (Die Traumtänzerin Madeleine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: Madeleine Guipet (Georgia, 1876-?) was a dream dancer, dancing hypnotized.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, hypnotic
    • KEYWORDS: trance
  • s1398

    s1398

    • TITLE OF WORK: The pleasures of the unhappy (Les plaisirs du malheureux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.8 x 12.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s2284

    s2284

    • TITLE OF WORK: A statue entitled "Dancer" resembling Cléo de Mérode, and admirers (Statue intitulée "Danseuse" ressemblant à Cléo de Mérode, et admirateurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p1099

    p1099

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Naked, dancing woman in the woods (Nackte, tanzende Frau im Walde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 56 x 38.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Pictured is probably the dancer Nina Hard, who stayed in the painter's home during the summer of 1921.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p5267

    p5267

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches for the ballet "Le renard"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1922
    • COMMENTS: "Le renard" (the fox), ballet created on 18/05/1922 at the Opééra de Paris by the Ballets Russes; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska, sets and costumes by Larionov; with Bronislava Nijinska and Idzik
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7037

    p7037

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Strieffler (Germany, 1872-1949) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Altpfälzer dance of the wooden shoes (Altpfälzer Holzschuhtanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6793

    p6793

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the Opera ball (Au bal de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • p2375

    p2375

    • ARTIST: Alexandre-Marie Colin (France, 1798-1873) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Louise Pierson as Ida in the ballet "La laitière suisse"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1823
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris, Théâtre de la Porte Saint Martin, 1823
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3513

    s3513

    • ARTIST: Giacomo Franco (Italy, 1550-1620) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1581
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p7443

    p7443

    • ARTIST: Fra Angelico or Guido di Pietro (Italy, 1387-1455)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of angel musicians, from the "Coronation of the Virgin" (Gruppo di angeli musicanti, da "Incoromazione della Vergine")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1440
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p4638

    p4638

    • ARTIST: Daniel Marot l'Ancien (France, 1661-1752)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A son Altesse Royale, Madame la Princesse d'Orange (To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1686
    • DIMENSIONS: 40.5 x 56 cm
    • COMMENTS: Celebration of the birthday of the Prince William III of Orange (1650-1702). The prince dances with princess Mary II of Orange (1662-1695), a daughter of the King of England. An orchestra of 24 musici
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Flanders, France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p1949

    p1949

    • ARTIST: Gaston Bussière (France, 1862-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome (Salomé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Israel, France,
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage, traditional, popular, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion Bible,
  • s0608

    s0608

    • ARTIST: Arthur Hopkins (U.K., 1848-1930) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Winter life in Canada - A skating carnival at Ottawa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 50.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada, Ottawa
    • DANCE FORM: skating
  • p5604

    p5604

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango. Modern dance (Tango. Danza moderna)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: tango
  • p9645

    p9645

    • ARTIST: Jan Anton Garemyn or Garemijn (Flanders, 1712-1799)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The village dance (La danse villageoise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 90.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
  • p4340

    p4340

    • ARTIST: Raymundo de Larrain
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Cendrillon"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1963
    • COMMENTS: "Cendrillon" ballet of Raimundo de Larrain; music by Prokofieff, choreography by Orlikovski, directed by Orlikovski and Larain; with Milenko Banowtch, Paolo Bartolucci, Tessa Beaumont, George Goviloff
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0924

    p0924

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers seated (Deux danseuses assises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 40 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3356

    p3356

    • ARTIST: Sam Abercrombie (Australia, 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Donald Barclay in Nureyev's "Sleeping Beauty"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8621

    p8621

    • TITLE OF WORK: The "Bodhisattva" Vajparani
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, copper alloy with traces of gold paint
    • DATE: 950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: This dance position is called "ardhaparyanka" in Sanskrit. Vajrapani means "celui qui porte la foudre"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Nepal
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • p9472

    p9472

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les noces"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and ink on paper
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: "Les noces", choreographic scenes with songs, in four scenes. Music and story by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by B. Nijinska; decors and costumes by Natalia Goncharova
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery

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