Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6419

    p6419

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Triton - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7405

    p7405

    • ARTIST: Michael Lekakis (Greece, 1907-1998)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tsamiko dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1946
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 75 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p5243

    p5243

    • ARTIST: Salvador Dalí (Spain, 1904-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Labyrinth" by the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1941
    • COMMENTS: New York
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p2595

    p2595

    • ARTIST: Georges Rouault (France, 1871-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer lacing her chausson (Danseuse laçant son chausson)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 25.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1654

    p1654

    • ARTIST: Paul Klee (Switzerland, 1879-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance play of the red skirts (Tanzspiel der Rotröcke)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 44 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
  • s0113

    s0113

    • TITLE OF WORK: From the Hawaii Islands: Hula dancing girls (Von den Hawaii-Inseln: Hulu-Tänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hawaii, U.S.A., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, popular
  • s1729

    s1729

    • ARTIST: Nicolai Legat (Russia, 1869-1937) and Sergei Legat (Russia, 1875-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Father Gustav Legat teaching sons Nicolai and Sergei
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s2127

    s2127

    • ARTIST: Emati
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers of Ambassi (Les danseurs d'ambassi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1997
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cameroun, Douala
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
  • s5864

    s5864

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hermes, Pan and Nymphes. Hellenistic marble relief.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -285
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 44 cm
    • COMMENTS: Found at Lampsakos, Turkey. Das Relief, das mit einem Zapfen in einen Sockel eingelassen war, zeigt als Rahmung der Szene eine Höhle oder Grotte; oben auf dem felsartigen Dach sitzen Vögel. Am rechten
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Hellenistic
    • DANCE FORM: round
    • KEYWORDS: altar, deity
  • p0743

    p0743

    • ARTIST: Leo von Elliot (Germany, 1816-1890) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Students' carnival in Brussels
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Brussels
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • s2715

    s2715

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Croatian national dances, no. 13
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 13
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p4239

    p4239

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsal room (Salle de répétition)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41.5 x 92 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0393

    s0393

    • ARTIST: Gustav Rour (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The popular play at Gersau in Switzerland (Das Volksschauspiel zu Gersau in der Schweitz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland, Gersau
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p9986

    p9986

    • ARTIST: Théodore Gérard (Belgium, 1829-1895)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The peasants' feast (La fête des paysans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 221 x 383.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Théodore Gerard 86"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s4525

    s4525

    • TITLE OF WORK: Girl ballet dancer training
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p0693

    p0693

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers playing knucklebones (Danseuses jouant aux osselets)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1893
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3906

    p3906

    • TITLE OF WORK: King Louis XIV in ballet costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1660
    • COMMENTS: The king performed in this costume at a performance in Aix-en-Provence, in 1660
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p5623

    p5623

    • TITLE OF WORK: For courting, a slow waltz by Georges Voitellier. Boston (Pour flirter, valse lente par Georges Voitellier. Boston)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p0569

    p0569

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi in the Pas de Songe of the ballet "La Péri"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1843
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5974

    s5974

    • ARTIST: The Micali Painter (active, 520-500 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman with krotala between two Satyrs. Etruscan hydria vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, hydria vase
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.3 cm x 29.5 cm diam.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
  • s1809

    s1809

    • ARTIST: Millicent Hodson (U.S.A.)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A pas de deux from the ballet "Cotillon" By Balanchine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: duo
  • p6307

    p6307

    • TITLE OF WORK: Camargo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1755
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8706

    p8706

    • TITLE OF WORK: Juvenile ball at the mansion-house, on New Year's Eve
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 23.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: A "juvenile entertainment" given by the Lady Mayoress
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s5690

    s5690

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer holding a tambourine. From Egypt
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bone
    • DATE: 350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.6 x 3.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Egyptian artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Hellenistic, Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p8557

    p8557

    • TITLE OF WORK: The great hall of the City Hall (La grande salle de l'Hôtel de Ville)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, engraving
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.3 x 14.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p6537

    p6537

    • ARTIST: Ernest Haskell (U.S.A., 1876-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1901
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1125

    s1125

    • ARTIST: Marcel Vertès (Hungary, 1895-1961) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Boston
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Boston, ballroom, couple
  • p0651

    p0651

    • ARTIST: Cristina Rubalcava (Mexico)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1985
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p5381

    p5381

    • TITLE OF WORK: Propitiation rite to generate rain
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Miniature of the Rajput school of the lowlands.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p2125

    p2125

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 13.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4767

    p4767

    • ARTIST: François le Villain (France)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The return from the grape-harvest (Le retour des vendanges)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1823
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7438

    p7438

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Apsaras
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, sandstone
    • DATE: 1200
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Cambodia, Anghor, Bayon
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • s5323

    s5323

    • ARTIST: Paul Howard Manship (U.S.A., 1885-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing female nude with drapery
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink on tracing paper sheet
    • DATE: 0
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.6 x 8.7 cm
  • s1025

    s1025

    • ARTIST: Theodore Blake Wirgman (U.K, 1848-1925) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Madame Réjane, now appearing as Madame Sans-Gêne at the Gaiety Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, theater
  • p3877

    p3877

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1925
    • COMMENTS: Fron the series "Tanzcafé"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p5278

    p5278

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folk Dance Theater. Mare nostrum (Folkloristisch Danstheater. Mare nostrum)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1989
    • COMMENTS: Sradsschouwburg Amsterdam 08/11/1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s5475

    s5475

    • ARTIST: John Held Jr. (U.S.A., 1889-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Santa Claus dances the Charleston
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1945
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom, Charleston, jazz
    • KEYWORDS: humor
  • p8929

    p8929

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Shéhérazade": Golden Negro
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0933

    p0933

    • ARTIST: Yvonne Greff-Davis (1936-1999)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pas de deux
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • s5070

    s5070

    • ARTIST: Tórtola Valencia (Spain, 1882-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tortola Valencia - self-portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • COMMENTS: From the album of autographs of Angeles Magret-Vila
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s0862

    s0862

    • TITLE OF WORK: A war dance before the Deputy Commissioner
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.4 x 11.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Sketches in Fiji, and in the Island of Rotumah, recently annexed to the Colony of Fiji
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Fiji, Pacific
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, male
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • p6002

    p6002

    • ARTIST: Ottó Baditz (Hungary, 1849-1936) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The first csardas (Der erste Czardas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2572

    s2572

    • ARTIST: Louis Rousselet (France, 1845-1929) (sketch); Emile Bayard (drawing); C. Laplante (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival of Moharum in Bombay: The Tabouts on the beach (Fête du Moharum à Bombay: Les Tabouts sur la plage)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Feast of the Parsis in September
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Bombay
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: sea, beach, religion
  • p7797

    p7797

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Moléson, Gruyère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1949
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s0260

    s0260

    • ARTIST: Jay Potter (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The last dance: Love braves all for love's sweet sake
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.8 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: "But when the harp-strings twang and fiddles wail... "
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: poem
  • p4256

    p4256

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nude dancer seated (Danseuse nue assise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and pastel on tracing paper
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73.3 x 43.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lemoisne catalogue no. 1409
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4254

    s4254

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Made at the Timber Industry School in Zakopane
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p0838

    p0838

    • TITLE OF WORK: Actor in "fur" costume and woman flutist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on a vase
    • DATE: -300
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: humor, theater, comic
  • p8955

    p8955

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky. Programme officiel des Ballets Russes, Théâtre du Châtelet, mai-juin 1912
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3833

    p3833

    • TITLE OF WORK: Flutist and dancing woman; Dionysus, Ariadne, Hercules, Eros
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver
    • DATE: -400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.2 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Thrace, Bulgaria

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