Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4878

    s4878

    • ARTIST: Komala Varadan (India, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bangra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1999
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Bangra, folk, solo
  • s3194

    s3194

    • ARTIST: Paul Troubetzkoy (Italy, 1866-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova in the ballet "Bacchanale"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 52.5 x 16 x 25 cm
    • COMMENTS: Epreuve en bronze, fonte à cire perdue de Valsuani à patine mordorée. Cachet de fondeur C. Valsuani. Signée sur la terrasse et datée 1910é
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p9397

    p9397

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Golden Festival at Valparaiso (Les Fêtes d'Or à Valparaiso)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.9 x 15.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Chile, Valparaiso
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s4790

    s4790

    • ARTIST: Rodolfo B. Feleo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, the Regional Variations suite: Kadal Blila
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, monochrome
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s2596

    s2596

    • ARTIST: L. Crépon (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Child with a fox's mask (Enfant avec un masque de renard)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 7.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Japon" by Aimé Humbert, 1863-1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: drum, child, disguise
  • s3898

    s3898

    • ARTIST: Siegmund von Suchodolski (Germany, 1875-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clotilde von der Planitz (later Coltilde von Derp - Sacharoff) at the age of eight
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s4710

    s4710

    • ARTIST: Georges Bel
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 46 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet
  • s4765

    s4765

    • ARTIST: Gustave Boulanger (France, 1824-1888)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Bacchic dance (La danse bachique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p8859

    p8859

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marfa Mouraviova in the ballet "Le petit cheval bossu"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1361

    s1361

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the Opera ball on Lent day (Au bal de l'Opéra le jour de la mi-carême)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.2 x 22.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, couple
  • p9359

    p9359

    • TITLE OF WORK: Flora Fabri
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 15.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5341

    s5341

    • TITLE OF WORK: From scene 2 of "Sylphide" with Marie Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1832
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p7177

    p7177

    • ARTIST: George Grosz (Germany, 1893-1959)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Strudel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1974
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s3593

    s3593

    • ARTIST: Jenö Gàbor (Hungary, 1893-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Orpheus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 43.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s0747

    s0747

    • TITLE OF WORK: How the Easter Volunteer Review affected a private hotel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo, male, couple
    • KEYWORDS: officer, military
  • p6902

    p6902

    • TITLE OF WORK: Auguste Bournonville teaching ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Collage, cloth
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, choreographer
  • s4736

    s4736

    • ARTIST: Antoine Watteau (France, 1684-1721)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mezzetin dancing (Mezzetin dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1720
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, solo
  • s1861

    s1861

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene from the opera "Erinto" by Kerrl, first presented in 1661
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1661
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: This is the earliest known picture of a ballet performance in Munich
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • s0455

    s0455

    • ARTIST: Hippolyte Alexandre Julien Moulin (France, 1832-1884)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A lucky find at Pompeii
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, rich dark brown patination
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 84.5 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy, Pompei, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, spade, statuette
  • p4330

    p4330

    • ARTIST: Jean-Denis Malclès (France, 1912-2002)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The devil's fiancée" ("La fiancée du diable")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1945
    • COMMENTS: "La fiancée du diable", ballet romantique de Boris Kochno; musique de Jean Hubeau, en libre interprétation des "Caprices" de Paganini; décor et costumes de Jean-Denis Malclès; chorégraphie de Roland P
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5156

    s5156

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marble krater with Dionysos and Ariadne, known as Borghèse Vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -30
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 172 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Made of Pentelic marble
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: Roman
    • KEYWORDS: satyrs, Ariadne, Dionysos, maenads, Roman, thyrsos
  • s1616

    s1616

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Notre Dame de Paris"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1965
    • COMMENTS: "Notre Dame de Paris", ballet. Ballets Roland Petit, Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2199

    s2199

    • TITLE OF WORK: Being dressed at the Château de Bicêtre (Prise d'habit au Château de Bicêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: August Vestris is being forcibly dressed by soldiers in order to dance at the Opéra. His father Gaétan remains behind bars. The print is dedicated to His uncle the cook who brought meals to Auguste in
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, off-stage
  • p3314

    p3314

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance with "bleu de Saxe" bathing suit and red background
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on white paper
    • DATE: 1979
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.8 x 17.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • s0414

    s0414

    • ARTIST: Ernst Hosang (Germany, 1857-after 1884) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The master sergeant with the captain's wife. The captain with the master sergeant's wife (Der Feldwebel mit der Frau Hauptmann. Der Herr Hauptmann mit der Frau Feldwebel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 11.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Emperor's birthday in the barracks
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s3475

    s3475

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Museum of Macedonian Struggle at Burna, Chromio, Kozani, Greece
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Macedonia, Kozani
    • DANCE FORM: folk, open circle
  • s2584

    s2584

    • ARTIST: Catherine de Bourboulon (U.S.A., 1827-1865) (sketch); Vaumort (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Novgorod fair (La foire de Novogorod)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Relation de voyage de Shang-ha? à Moscou" by A. Poussielgue
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Novgorod
    • DANCE FORM: stage, popular
  • p8110

    p8110

    • ARTIST: Fernand Allard d'Ollivier (Belgium, 1883-1933) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Katompé region: dance of the witch-doctor (Région de Katompé: danse de sorcier-croque-mitaine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, after a watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ruanda, Congo, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: therapy, magic
  • p3336

    p3336

    • ARTIST: Gustav Seitz (Germany, 1906-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing (Tanzende)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1960
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s5473

    s5473

    • ARTIST: John Held Jr. (U.S.A., 1889-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing round the world
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1945
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom,
  • p7697

    p7697

    • TITLE OF WORK: A celebration at the legation of China (Une fête à la légation de Chine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Chinese embassy in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, China
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s3625

    s3625

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Aldegrever or Aldegraf (Germany, 1502-1555 or 1561)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dancers (Hochzeitstänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p3980

    p3980

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancer's dressing room (Loge de danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9290

    p9290

    • ARTIST: Alexandra Exter (Russia, 1882-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the café
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache, pen and indian ink over pencil
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 63.5 x 42 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated '25
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p1019

    p1019

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Last scene of the 2nd act of the ballet "Namouna"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.5 x 42.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Namouna", ballet en deux actes et trois tableaux; livret de MM. Charles Nuitter et Petipa; musique de M. Edouard Lalo; décors de MM. Lavastre, Rubé et Chaperon; costumes de M. Eugène Lacoste; Grand O
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1571

    s1571

    • ARTIST: André Dignimont (France, 1891-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Alsatia, France - 1 (La danse en Alsace)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 14.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Alsatia, Alsace
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3212

    s3212

    • ARTIST: Giuseppe Biasi da Teulada (Italy, 1885-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballo di Oliena
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph
    • DATE: 1936
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Sardinia, Sardegna
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Ballo di Oliena
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, accordion
  • s5310

    s5310

    • ARTIST: Max Wislicenus (Poland, 1861-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gobelin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Textile fabric, wool
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 299 x 299 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
  • s5499

    s5499

    • TITLE OF WORK: Yvette Chauviré & Milorad Miskovitch. Teatro di S. Carlo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1965
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: poster
  • p9590

    p9590

    • ARTIST: Georges Braque (France, 1882-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "Les fâcheux": Na?ade
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, gouache and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les fâcheux", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, Paris, 1924. Music by G. Auric; story by B. Kochno, from the comedy-ballet of Molière; choreography by B. Nijinska; décors and costumes by Georg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9893

    p9893

    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Romania, Israel
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p0525

    p0525

    • ARTIST: Bertall or Charles Albert vicomte d'Arnoux (France, 1820-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito in the ballet "La Vivandière"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3417

    s3417

    • ARTIST: Lemaître (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Easter festival in Montenegro (Fête de Pâques. Le Monténegro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1838
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.3 x 17.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia, Montenegro
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p2438

    p2438

    • ARTIST: Christian Rohlfs (Germany, 1849-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers (Tänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on canvas
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 x 50 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s3162

    s3162

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Andrians, joyful disciples of Bacchus (Lea Andriens, joyeux disciples de Bacchus)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1615
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Cyclades, Andros
  • p2486

    p2486

    • ARTIST: John Rogers Herbert (U.K., 1810-1890); Richard James Lane (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pauline Duvernay as the Naiad in the ballet "The sleeping beauty in the wood"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1833
    • DIMENSIONS: 36.5 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: London, Drury Lane Theatre, 1833
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1266

    p1266

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • p7340

    p7340

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance figures. Plate 1.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p7421

    p7421

    • ARTIST: George Wesley Bellows (U.S.A., 1882-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a madhouse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1917
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • s3697

    s3697

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing satyr
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: -490
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo

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