Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4099

    s4099

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two female mimes or dancers in water
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Probably scene from a "hydromime" in a water pool
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Byzantium, Roman, Italy, Sicily
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: bathing suit
  • s5990

    s5990

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shah-Jahan honouring Prince Dora-Shikoh. Girls dancing without musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on paper, manuscript illumination,
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Mughal
  • s5673

    s5673

    • ARTIST: The Dinos Painter (manner of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bowl (dinos) depicting athletes training, flutist, spear thrower
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured dinos vase
    • DATE: -425
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 30 x 21.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Nude youths practice the javelin, boxing, long jump, and the discus throw. Two trainers wearing mantles and holding sticks observe them. A musician, playing a double-pipe (aulos) and wearing a sleevel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: javelin, teaching, flute
  • s3000

    s3000

    • ARTIST: Jean-Jacques Gailliard (Belgium, 1890-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Akarova, "L'ostendaise"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: Jean-Jacques Gaillard was married to Akarova on 31/10/1923 in Brussells
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Brussels
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9188

    p9188

    • ARTIST: Jean-Louis Forain (France, 1852-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The stage of the Opera (La scène de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60.8 x 73 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p3956

    p3956

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, ivory box
    • DATE: 1000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Called "the Vezoli box"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium
  • s0293

    s0293

    • ARTIST: Alexander Coroyannakis (Greece, 1906-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance couple (Choreftiko zevgari)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 24.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p6833

    p6833

    • ARTIST: Hobblethwaite (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Popular scene from the Derby of Epsom (Scène populaire du Derby d'Epsom)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: Black
  • s4555

    s4555

    • ARTIST: Etienne Dinet (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer under the stars (Danseuse sous les étoiles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 81 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Algeria,
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: kerchief
  • p7241

    p7241

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi in the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3101

    p3101

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maria Medina Vigano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1793
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1045

    p1045

    • ARTIST: José Gutiérrez Solana (Spain, 1886-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Disguised men dancing (Màscaras bailando)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival, disguise
  • p2664

    p2664

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Candle dancers (Kerzentänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1917
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "Nolde"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p9840

    p9840

    • ARTIST: Tommaso Borgonio (Italy, 1620-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The tobacco ballet" ("Il tabacco baletto", Igarazu and Zuvolla)
    • 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
  • s2437

    s2437

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing boy and musicians entertaining a patron in a wine-shop
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tavern
  • p1702

    p1702

    • ARTIST: Thackeray (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer at the cafés
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1838
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Greece, Turkey, Ottoman,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, professional, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: boy
  • s5286

    s5286

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Ngoma negroes (Tanzende Ngoma-Neger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the German colonies in Africa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa, German colonies
    • DANCE FORM: male, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s0204

    s0204

    • ARTIST: Valias Semertzidis (Greece, 1911-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and tempera
    • DATE: 1973
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 70 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Pontos, Black Sea, Turkey, Lazistan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5327

    p5327

    • ARTIST: Robert Wilhelm Ekman (Finland, 1808-1873
    • TITLE OF WORK: Midsummer fires (Midsommareldar) - detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5406

    p5406

    • TITLE OF WORK: The original Schottisch, composed by Jullien
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p4040

    p4040

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer stretching (Danseuse s'étirant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on pale grey velin paper
    • DATE: 1884
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5941

    p5941

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jorge Donn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0197

    p0197

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Narcisse": Jeune Béotien
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: "Narcisse", ballet by the Ballets Russes, 1911, Théâtre du Casino, Monte Carlo. Choreography by Mikhail Fokine; music by Nikolai Tcherepnin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia, France, Monaco, Monte Carlo,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4529

    p4529

    • ARTIST: P. Val
    • TITLE OF WORK: 1001 nights dinner
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s0456

    s0456

    • ARTIST: Claire-Jeanne-Roberte Colinet (France, 1880-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, pale green/yellow and gilt patination, on an onyx plinth
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: nude, acrobat, ball
  • p3577

    p3577

    • ARTIST: Stanka Zeleva (Bulgaria)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two couples dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1997
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bulgaria, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p2630

    p2630

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La Péri": Iskander (danced by Vaslav Nijinsky)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5801

    s5801

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two female dancers in profile. Attic black-figure neck amphora fragment (comprised of 9 joined fragments)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure neck amphora vase
    • DATE: -515
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 15.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • p8811

    p8811

    • ARTIST: C. Koch (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebrations of the silver wedding of the German Crown Prince couple: The artists' ball in the Central Hotel of Berlin on the 4th of March
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 22.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s4613

    s4613

    • ARTIST: M. Rhéal (drawing); Regnier (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The court dancers (Les bayadères)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 10.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, India
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • s5929

    s5929

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bronze statuette of a young male figure in a dance pose.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: -560
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Product of a Samian workshop. From the Heraion
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Samos
  • p8153

    p8153

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the Deer Dance, Taos pueblo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • s6074

    s6074

    • ARTIST: The Group of the Paidikos Alabastra (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: U: Youth running (komos?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure alabastron vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • s0889

    s0889

    • ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the lunchroom, after lunch (Au réfectoire, après le repas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Cosacks in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: military,
  • s1909

    s1909

    • ARTIST: Jean "PAL" Paléologue (Romania, 1860-1942) (design)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cleo de Merode (Cléo de Mérode)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • s2684

    s2684

    • TITLE OF WORK: Night Beauty, tarentella for the piano by Paul Wachs (Belle de nuit, tarentelle pour piano par Paul Wachs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1902
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, tarantella, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p6720

    p6720

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sarabande
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.2 x 6.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a performance of historical dances by Mlle Sandrini of the Paris Opéra; choreography by Laure Fonta, lecture by Professor Bourgault-Ducoudray
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, stage
  • s0219

    s0219

    • ARTIST: Adolf Hoeffler (Germany/U.S.A., 1825-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The negro festival in Havana on the 6th of January (Das Negerfest der drei Könige in Habana am 6. Januar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.4 x 35.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cuba, Havana
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p8108

    p8108

    • ARTIST: Fernand Allard d'Ollivier (Belgium, 1883-1933) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The jester of the native chief of Kanda-Kanda, Lomami (La fou du chef indigène de Kanda-Kanda, Lomami)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, after a watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ruanda, Congo, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8731

    p8731

    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration from "Behind the scenes"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1842
    • DIMENSIONS: 7 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • p4618

    p4618

    • ARTIST: Jacques Sablet (Switzerland, 1749- 1803)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Naples
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1784
    • DIMENSIONS: 99 x 137 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7514

    p7514

    • ARTIST: Brian Pinkney (U.S.A., 1961-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young Alvin Ailey watching Katherine Dunham dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p0964

    p0964

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Prelude to "A faun's afternoon" (Prélude à "L'après-midi d'un faune")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, color
    • DATE: 1962
    • COMMENTS: This drawing served for the performance of the ballet in Toulouse in 1965
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Mougins
  • s4243

    s4243

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nude dancing and Harlequin (Nu dansant et arlequin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1970
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, bicycle
  • p1425

    p1425

    • ARTIST: Erich Heckel (Germany, 1883-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing nude (Tanzender Akt)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, chalk
    • DATE: 1909
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45 x 35 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s0250

    s0250

    • TITLE OF WORK: Brooke's Monkey Brand soap. Good for China! "Wei-Hai-Wei!!!"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.9 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s4597

    s4597

    • ARTIST: Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck (Belgium, 1873-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Camp dance (Danse au campement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 110 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: fire, zurna, tambourine
  • s3199

    s3199

    • ARTIST: May Néama (1917-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mr Vestris as Pleasure (Mr. Vestris en Plaisir)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1969
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the book "80 récits sur la danse" edited by the artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet
  • p6144

    p6144

    • ARTIST: Roger Bezombes (France, 1913-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le massacre des Amazones"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1962
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Presented in Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9412

    p9412

    • ARTIST: Milton Avery (U.S.A., 1885-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, black
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 24.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo

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