Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3685

    p3685

    • ARTIST: José de Zamora (Spain, 1889-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the Moulin Rouge music-hall in Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9618

    p9618

    • ARTIST: Daniel Vierge (Spain, 1851-1904) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rennes and its Roman festival (Rennes et sa fête romaine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 21.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Un divertissement donné sur la place du Palais-de-Justice
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Rennes, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p7877

    p7877

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5977

    s5977

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bronze statuette of Pan in a dancing pose
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine, bronze
    • DATE: -430
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: Pan, deity
  • s1511

    s1511

    • TITLE OF WORK: Slave dancing before her lover (Esclava bailando delante su Amo.)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
  • p2470

    p2470

    • ARTIST: Robert Kämmerer (Germany, 1870-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Midsummer fire (Sonnenwendfeuer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5577

    p5577

    • TITLE OF WORK: English fertility dance. A man disguised as a woman is chased by the fool
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3154

    s3154

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Antigone", choreographed by Persa Stamatopoulou
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1994
    • COMMENTS: Girst presented in Athens, then in Chania, Crete
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s4260

    s4260

    • ARTIST: Maurice Biais (France, 1872-1926) (design)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color poster
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Imprimerie et publicité Charles Verneau, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p5529

    p5529

    • ARTIST: G. Broling (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: St. John's celebration in Finland (St. John's celebration in Finland)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 32.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7937

    p7937

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer impersonating the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, manuscript illumination
    • DATE: 1570
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Tezcatlipoca was the equivalent of Jupiter for the Aztecs
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p8303

    p8303

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bouvier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito and Arthur Saint-Léon in the ballet "La vivandière", dancing the Redowa Polka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1844
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p7008

    p7008

    • ARTIST: Joel
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography for the ballet "Le sacre du printemps"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, choreographer, caricature,
  • p4255

    p4255

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers seated on a bench (Deux danseuses assises sur une banquette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 83 x 107 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lemoisne 1256
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6399

    p6399

    • ARTIST: Benjamin Rabier (France, 1864-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spring waltz (Valse printanière)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: waltz
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p6514

    p6514

    • ARTIST: Marius Mars-Vallet (France, 1867-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, lamp
    • DATE: 1900
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s4466

    s4466

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Farandola of Provence (Farandoulo prouvençalo - Farandole provençale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Provence
    • DANCE FORM: farandole, traditional, round, circle
  • p0076

    p0076

    • ARTIST: Jacques-Antoine Vallin (France, 1760?-1831?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The temptation of Saint Anthony (La tentation de Saint Antoine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1826
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 x 73 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p8468

    p8468

    • ARTIST: J. Salles (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The farandole at the festival of the Gard bridge (La farandole, à la fête du pont de Gard)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, farandole
  • s0554

    s0554

    • ARTIST: Dick (sketch); Gustave Janet (France, 1829-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Promenade - polonaise - of the imperial familly in Saint George's Hall (Promenade - polonaise - de la famille impériale dans la salle Saint-Georges)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.7 x 30.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Festivities of the Crowning. Grand ball or Kourka in the Kremlin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Moscow
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polonaise, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s4697

    s4697

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers reposing (Deux danseuses au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, fusain on paper
    • DATE: 1889
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 64 x 51 cm
    • COMMENTS: Mixed technique
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p7640

    p7640

    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "The bright stream"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: A ballet about life in a collective farm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s2102

    s2102

    • ARTIST: Maria Or?owska-Gabry? (Poland, 1925-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Slask dances. Mietlorz. Pszczy?ski story (Tance Slaskie. Mietlorz. Stroj pszczynski)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: couple, folk
  • p9785

    p9785

    • ARTIST: John Frederick Lewis (U.K., 1804-1876) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Spain
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, colored by hand
    • DATE: 1836
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.5 x 49 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: couple, fandango, Spanish dance
  • p2757

    p2757

    • ARTIST: Louis Denis-Valvérane (France, 1870-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Dance, by Raoul Charbonnel, frontispiece (La Danse par Raoul Charbonnel, frontispice)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p6990

    p6990

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni, Fanny Cerrito, Carlotta Grisi, Lucile Grahn in "Le pas de quatre"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4924

    p4924

    • TITLE OF WORK: Esi vida. José Jermann Alvarez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,
  • s3462

    s3462

    • TITLE OF WORK: A banquet in the time of Shah Abbas II. Detail: musician and dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Ispahan, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5173

    s5173

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vase with four dancing figures. Anahita vessel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver vase
    • DATE: 400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Anahita Vessel. Iran, Sassanian, 4th-5th century | Sassanian silver, Sasanian, Sasanid, Ancient Iran.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: female dance
  • s4905

    s4905

    • ARTIST: Edouard-Marie Guillaume Dubufe (France, 1853-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ancient dance (Danse antique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 305 x 206 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: popular, trio
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument
  • p9204

    p9204

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in mauve (Danseuse en mauve)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1878
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72 x 39.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the signature
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1066

    s1066

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Ceylon Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall. The Devil Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.3 x 7.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ceylon, Sri Lanka, U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: devil, traditional, stage
  • s1352

    s1352

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scenes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 24.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustrations for an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p4331

    p4331

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Composition for the ballet "Los caprichos"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1946
    • COMMENTS: "Los caprichos", ballet en un acte; décor et costumes de Clavé, choréographie de Ana Nevada; Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées, 1946.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • s0207

    s0207

    • ARTIST: Rudolf Gaupmann (Austria, 1815-1877) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The "Green George" in the Slav celebration of spring (Der "Grüne Georg" in der slawischen Frühlingsfeier)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional
  • s2690

    s2690

    • ARTIST: Edouard Riou (France 1833-1900) (drawing); Charles Maurand (France, 1824-1904) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Variety Theatre - The Diamond Palace; 21st and last scene from "Oh! La, la! How silly is all this!" Review in 3 acts and 21 scenes, by Mr. Théodore Cogniard and Mr. Clairville, sets by Georges
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall
  • p6740

    p6740

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Europe, France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p3302

    p3302

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two white figures with green trees
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on background painted black
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.7 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1725

    p1725

    • ARTIST: Andrée Parr
    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman. Costume for the ballet "L'homme et son désir"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor glued to blue paper
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 17.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2012

    p2012

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harold Turner in "Les patineurs" (The skaters)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4593

    s4593

    • ARTIST: Maurice Potter (Switzerland, 1865-1898)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Night festival at Laghouat (Fête de nuit à Laghouat)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 63 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, Laghouat
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: music, def, tambourine
  • s5189

    s5189

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 48 cm
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, solo,
  • s4444

    s4444

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky on a fan by Paquin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p9172

    p9172

    • ARTIST: Fortunato Depero (Italy, 1892-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor model for the ballet "Le chant du rossignol"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, collage
    • DATE: 1916
    • COMMENTS: "Le chant du rossignol", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes. Music from the opera "Le rossignol" by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by L. Massine, scenery and costumes by Henri Matisse.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, China
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p1333

    p1333

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer from "One hundred and one nights"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p9165

    p9165

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne". A Lady
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "Le tricorne", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by M. de Falla, composed for the pantomime by Martinez-Sierra. Scenario by Serge Diaghilev after the play "Le tricorne" by Alarc
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5090

    p5090

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi and James Sylvain (Sullivan) in the ballet "Paquita"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0900

    s0900

    • ARTIST: Emilio Vasarri (Italy, 1862-1928) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fontinales
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.3 x 22.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p7989

    p7989

    • ARTIST: Théophile Gautier (France, 1811-1872)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Giselle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1841
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2885

    s2885

    • ARTIST: Gustaf Broling (Sweden, 1766-1838) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russia, Saint Petersbourg - on the Champ-de-Mars during the Easter holidays. Bayadères (Russie - Saint Petersbourg - Sur le Champ-de-Mars pendant les fêtes de Pâques. Bayadères
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.6 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Saint Petersburg
    • DANCE FORM: popular

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