TITLE OF WORK: A study session in a class of rhythmic dance: exercises in saltation (Une séance d'étude dans un cours de danse rythmique: exercices de saltation)
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1920
DIMENSIONS: 14 x 15.2 cm
COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Danse et rythme"
TITLE OF WORK: Eros and two dancing girls. Attic red-figure hydria.
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure hydria vase
DATE: -340
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 20.32 cm height
COMMENTS: Made and found in Cyrenaica, Libya. Eros and two dancing girls. In the centre Eros, with wings back-to-back, moves to right striking a tympanon: the two women dance away on either side, closely draped
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
ARTIST: Paul Heydel (Germany, 1854-1935) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: North American Indians at the Zoological garden of Dresden. Snake dance (Nordamerikanische Indianer im Zoologischen Garten zu Dresden. Schlangettanz)
TITLE OF WORK: Mask "hare" of the dance "bugaku ninomai"
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood, laquered and colored
DATE: 1173
DIMENSIONS: 29.8 cm height
COMMENTS: In the "bugaku", the dance "ninomai" follows the dance "ama" and is its parody. It is danced by two men, one bearing the joyous "emi-men" mask and the other bearing the sad "hare-men" mask.
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Children of the Mist": The Tohunga and Children of the Mist
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, color
DATE: 1960
COMMENTS: Ballet "Children of the Mist". From the 1960 season of Wellington City Ballet Company. Director and choreographer Leigh Brewer; orchestra directed by Alex Lindsay.
TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of the dancer Rosita Mauri (Portrait de Rosita Mauri, la danseuse)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil and fusain on paper
DATE: 1882
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 39.7 x 27.7 cm
COMMENTS: Made in the atelier of the Vicomte Lepic, a friend of Degas, probably in the spring of 1881, together with other sketches of the famous dancer
ARTIST: Louis Dunki (Switzerland, 1856-1915) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: Popular feasts in the Alps of Savoia. 14/07/1885 at Chalets de Bonnevaux, near Thonon (Les fêtes populaires dans les Alpes Savoisiennes - Le 14 juillet aux Chalets de Bonnevaux)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
DATE: 1885
DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 20.5 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Savoie, Savoia, Alps
TITLE OF WORK: The lover of dancers. A modernist novel by Félicien Champsaur. New poster by Chéret (L'amant des danseuses. Roman moderniste par Félicien Champsaur. Nouvelle affiche de Chéret)
TITLE OF WORK: What do you want with this parrot. Tango. Lyrics by Julio Romero, music by Enrique Delfino (Qué querés con este loro. Tango. Letra de Julio Romero, musica de Enrique Delfino)
