Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

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  • p5768

    p5768

    • ARTIST: Kaiser,
    • TITLE OF WORK: Konter dance (Kontertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s3691

    s3691

    • ARTIST: Alfred Rudolph Waud (U.S.A., 1828-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and baseball players at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1871
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Louisiana, New Orleans
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: sport
  • p4780

    p4780

    • ARTIST: Karoly Cserna (Hungary, 1867-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant wedding in Hungary
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5672

    s5672

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two-handled storage jar (pelike) depicting two young men jumping and flutist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured pelike vase
    • DATE: -517
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 3.1 height; 24.4 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Side A: Two nude youths jumping together together accompanied by flute music; leapers at center, flautist at right, facing them, wearing a cloak (himation).rnAbove the figures is the name “Kalipides”,
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: sport, teaching, flute, aulos
  • s3444

    s3444

    • ARTIST: Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (Spain, 1870-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pepita la Gitana
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 76.8 x 55.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Andalusian Gypsy dancer; a painting recorded in the Vizzabona Archive, Paris, no. 507
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Andalusia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4014

    p4014

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three studies of a dancer in the fourth position (Trois études d'une danseuse en quatrième position)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and pastel heightened with white on paper
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 61.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4273

    p4273

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with "krotala"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Khloudov Psalter.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Russia, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • p0768

    p0768

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Java, Borobodur
  • p2896

    p2896

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy, Roman
  • s1789

    s1789

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ring around the Ring. Béjart Company (Ring um den Ring. Compania Béjart)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1989
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9674

    p9674

    • TITLE OF WORK: In the ballet dancers' dressing room (Im Ankleidezimmer der Ballettänzerinnen ()
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.6 x 19 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7579

    p7579

    • TITLE OF WORK: Auguste Bournonville writing his memoirs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Caricature on the occasion of the publication of his book "My theater life".
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, choreographer
  • p5067

    p5067

    • ARTIST: Michel Gyarmathy (Hungary, 1908-1996)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the dancers of Folies-Bergère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5586

    p5586

    • TITLE OF WORK: Whirling dervishes in Egypt
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p0027

    p0027

    • ARTIST: Albert Gleizes (France, 1881-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Spanish dancer (La danseuse espagnole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, ink, pencil, gouache
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower right "A. Gleizes 1916"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • p4486

    p4486

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora dancing and playing the flute. Research for a low relief (Isadora dansant et jouant la flute. Recherche d'un bas-relief)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Study for the relief La Danse of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris. After Isadora Duncan.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2535

    p2535

    • ARTIST: Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky (Russia, 1839-1915)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia,
  • p2284

    p2284

    • TITLE OF WORK: Arrieros, dance of the Aymara Indians (Arrieros, danse des Indiens Aymaras)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: arrieros
  • p9917

    p9917

    • ARTIST: Josef Bato (Hungary, 1888-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 109 x 133 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "1920" at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Balkan
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • s0585

    s0585

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Eastern Question: Dancing dervishes - sketched by our special artist in Constantinople
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul
    • DANCE FORM: traditinal, solo, whirling, sema
    • KEYWORDS: religion, worship
  • p6473

    p6473

    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller at the Folies-Bergère (La Loïe Fuller aux Folies-Bergère)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1892
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s4212

    s4212

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A jaunty Domino (A fescher Domino)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
  • s1330

    s1330

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kurds executing national dances after the victory (Kurden, nach dem Siege Nationaltänze auffführend)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.3 x 15.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Kurdistan, Greece, Larissa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: drum, military
  • p3568

    p3568

    • ARTIST: M. I. Gourvin
    • TITLE OF WORK: Popular festival in the open (Narodnoe goulianye)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1979
    • DIMENSIONS: 160 x 45 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3400

    s3400

    • ARTIST: Luigi Mauro Galli (Italy, 1817-1900)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental fantasy - A nude Turkish dancer (Fantasia orientale - Una danzatrice turca nuda)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel, wood
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45 x 35.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument
  • p6912

    p6912

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers (Tänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s1421

    s1421

    • ARTIST: Danoin (drawing); Joliot (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Danse - Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.9 x 14.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burundi?, Buru, Bourou
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, war
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword
  • s5214

    s5214

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Pilar Lopez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Pilar Lopez was sister of La Argentinita
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s2058

    s2058

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "Clamor" by Yannis Ritsos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p6251

    p6251

    • ARTIST: Claude Michel "Clodion" (France, 1738-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Circle dance by male and female satyrs (Ronde de satyres et de satyresses). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, Tonnerre stone
    • DATE: 1782
    • DIMENSIONS: 107 height x 42 cm. diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s1573

    s1573

    • ARTIST: André Dignimont (France, 1891-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Alsatia, France - 3 (La danse en Alsace -3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.6 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Alsatia, Alsace
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4110

    s4110

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three maidens dancing, the last one holding a handkerchief, "Praise ye the Lord" scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1774
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Kozani, Pentalofos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, line
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5661

    p5661

    • ARTIST: Hans Sebald Beham (Germany, 1500-1550)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing peasants 5 & 6
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1522
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4775

    p4775

    • ARTIST: Antoine Nicolle (France, 1807-1883) & Bonne-Vierge or Clémence (France, 1798-1821)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Copy of the Medicis vase - Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bas-relief
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.7 cm height x 14.2 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Made by the Atelier Blard in Dieppe
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p3524

    p3524

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Frontcloth design for the ballet "Ballabile"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • COMMENTS: "Ballabile", ballet by the Sadler's Wells Ballet. Music by Chabrier arranged by Constant Lambert; scenery and costumes by Antoni Clavé; choreography by Roland Petit; first performance Covent Garden 05
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p5155

    p5155

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gordon Hamilton as The Dancing Master in the ballet "The rake's progress"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2051

    p2051

    • ARTIST: Nicos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas (Greece, 1906-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stage design for the ballet "The cursed serpent"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1951
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s4042

    s4042

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two men dancing (2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on black figure vase
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p9292

    p9292

    • ARTIST: Peter van de Velde (Flanders, 1634-after 1723)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Numerous figures on a jetty with in the background a village (Vele figuren aan een kade, met op de achtergrond een dorp)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 54.5 x 81 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, round
  • p8734

    p8734

    • TITLE OF WORK: Perrot and Cerito in the ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1842
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.1 x 15.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5195

    s5195

    • ARTIST: Camille Claudel (France, 1864-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz (Der Walzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1895
    • DANCE FORM: waltz
  • p7965

    p7965

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nijinsky. Dessins par Georges Barbier. Cover
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9114

    p9114

    • ARTIST: Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky (Lithuania, 1875-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Midas"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache on carton
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: "Midas", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, Paris. Music by M. Steinberg, argument by L. Bakst, choreography by M. Fokine, décors and costumes by M. Doboujinsky.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s3983

    s3983

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi in the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p7584

    p7584

    • ARTIST: Jean Jacques Turretin (Netherlands, 1778-1858)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of August Bournonville
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1823
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Bournonville must have been 17 years old when this miniature portrait was made
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer, ballet-master
  • p0057

    p0057

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer "making the step of the Spanish peasant" (Danseur Pantomime dans les Ballets de l'Opera Fesant le Pas de Paisan Espagnol)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Danseur pantomime dans les ballets de l'Opéra (Pantomime dancer in the ballets of the Opera)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0114

    p0114

    • TITLE OF WORK: Entertainment in the harem (Divertissement au harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p5141

    p5141

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Casse-noisette", ballet by Ivanov
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1941
    • COMMENTS: Nutcracker suite by Tchaikovsky, Margot Fonteyn, Gordon Hamilton as Buffoon, sets and costumes by Mitislav Dobuzhinsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4834

    p4834

    • ARTIST: Antonio Segu?
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1993
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 14 cm
    • DANCE FORM: tango, popular, ballroom, couple
  • p9333

    p9333

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm von Brietschwert (Germany, 1828-1875) (sketch); A. Palm. (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Defregger, Dancing on the Alm. International medley at the Art Hall of Vienna World Exhibition (Defregger, Der Tanz auf der Alm. Internationales Potpourri aus der Kunsthalle der Wiener Weltausstellung
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 9 cm
    • COMMENTS: International medley from the World Exhibition in Vienna.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple

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