Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s2876

    s2876

    • ARTIST: Daniel Vierge (Spain, 1851-1904) (drawing) (drawing); Urrabieta (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival in Madrid - Sticks dance (Le carnaval à Madrid - La danse des bâtons (la danza de los palos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.9 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Madrid
    • DANCE FORM: popular, palos
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • s3517

    s3517

    • ARTIST: Jean Toth (France, 1899-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Escudero in "Miller's dance" (Escudero in "La danse du meunier")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1954
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, solo
  • s3491

    s3491

    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Budapest
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2694

    p2694

    • ARTIST: Jan Havickszoon Steen (Netherland, 1626-1679)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing lesson (De dansies)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1660
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p2998

    p2998

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ukrainian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p8902

    p8902

    • ARTIST: Maleuvre
    • TITLE OF WORK: Frédérick Lemaître as Mephistopheles and Mme Zélie as Martha in the Valse de Fascination of "Faust"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1828
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo, waltz, couple
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p8013

    p8013

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance hall of the Brutions (La salle de danse des Brutions)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Prytanée de la Flèche", a military high-school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military, child
  • p7199

    p7199

    • TITLE OF WORK: The royal visit to Ireland. State ball at St. Patrick' Hall, Dublin Castle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s5378

    s5378

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ionian dancing girl with tambourine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • s0741

    s0741

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Jack and the bean-stalk", at the Adelphi Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Madame Celeste as Harlequin, Miss Wyndham as Columbine, Mr. Garden as Clown and Mr. C. J. Smith as Pantaloon
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: pantomime
  • s1972

    s1972

    • ARTIST: Jerry M. Halsor (U.S.A., 19??-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Practice
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, patina
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 58.4 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Numbered 22
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3107

    s3107

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: First study for "Death, our mother" (Première étude pour "Notre mère la mort")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
  • s2880

    s2880

    • ARTIST: Daniel Vierge (Spain, 1851-1904) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Paris - The Putting-to-Sleep ball at the Elysée Montmartre (Paris - Le Bal de l'Assomoir à l'Elysée-Montmartre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9293

    p9293

    • ARTIST: Andrea Locatelli (Italy, 1695-1741)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants merrymaking
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas, laid down on panel
    • DATE: 1735
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 98 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
  • p5681

    p5681

    • ARTIST: Leonel Marques Pereira (Portugal, 1828-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene in a village
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Portugal
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3435

    s3435

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three graces dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, gem
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Austria,
  • p5869

    p5869

    • ARTIST: Théophile-Louis Deyrolle (France, 1844-1923) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gavotte bretonne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk,
  • s1163

    s1163

    • ARTIST: F. C. Dickinson (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The new ballet at the Alhambra: tableau II. of "The red shoes"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.6 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3056

    p3056

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cours de danse E. Giraudet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s4492

    s4492

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet presented at the court of Shah Abbas, of the Sevides dynasty
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Compare with other version, from Chihil Sutun Palace
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Ispahan, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, professional, court
  • p4984

    p4984

    • ARTIST: Miguel Covarrubias (Mexico, 1904-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Tonantzintla"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, in 1951. Choreography by José Lim?n, music by Antonio Soler
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p5216

    p5216

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "Petrouchka"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6076

    p6076

    • ARTIST: Nikolai Astrup (Norway, 1880-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Likdansen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • p6283

    p6283

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration from the book "Umbra vitae" by Georg Heym 1924
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s1921

    s1921

    • ARTIST: Gergely
    • TITLE OF WORK: Minuet (Menuette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, court
  • p6608

    p6608

    • ARTIST: Callimachus (Greece, ca. 450-400 BC) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Girl dancer with Kalathiskos on her head
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Greek art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s1841

    s1841

    • TITLE OF WORK: Paolo Samengo and Amalia Brugnoli in the ballet "L'anneau magique"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1832
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • s1554

    s1554

    • ARTIST: Albert Kull (Germany, 1855-1921) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Karl Hagenbeck's newest Singhalese Caravan. 3. Temple dance by women. 5. Devil's dances or Shaman's dances. 6. Chord dances. 7. Duel dances
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Karl Hagenbeck's newest Singhalese caravan. 3. Temple dance of the women. 5. Devil or shaman dancers. 6. Stilt dancer. 7. Stick dancers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sri Lanka, Ceylon
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, devil
    • KEYWORDS: stilt, sticks, temple
  • s2393

    s2393

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 38
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • s5732

    s5732

    • ARTIST: The Cassel Painter
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pyrrhic armed dance. Red-figure crater vase (Pyrrhique, danse en armes. Cratère en calice à figures rouges)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure crater vase
    • DATE: -435
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.8 cm height; 25.9 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: From Athens
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo, armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, shield, javelin, lance
  • p1939

    p1939

    • ARTIST: Barham
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fire dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • p3983

    p3983

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer fixing her sock (Danseuse rajustant son chausson)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil heightened with chalk on rose paper
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 24.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Degas"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6246

    p6246

    • ARTIST: Claude Michel "Clodion" (France, 1738-1814) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two bacchants dancing with a satyr
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p0562

    p0562

    • ARTIST: S. von Zinks (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Danina ou Jocko le singe brésilien"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1826
    • COMMENTS: "Danina ou Jocko le singe brésilien", a ballet choreographed by Ph. Taglioni; created in Stuttgart in 1826.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9429

    p9429

    • ARTIST: Pavle "Paja" Jovanovi? (Serbia, 1859-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the bairham
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 97.5 x 148 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated Paris '90
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s3219

    s3219

    • TITLE OF WORK: Minuet (Menuet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: mandoline
  • p8658

    p8658

    • ARTIST: Yannis Gaitis (Greece, 1923-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing (Choreftiko)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 110 x 76 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • s2517

    s2517

    • ARTIST: Eugène Lagare (France, 1870-1913) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketch by Mr. Lagare, for his "Dancer" (Croquis de M. Lagare, pour sa "Danseuse")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, from a sketch
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.8 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7793

    p7793

    • TITLE OF WORK: Steyrischer, Aussee
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1948
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 10.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p4131

    p4131

    • ARTIST: Johannes Lingelbach (Netherlands, 1622-1674)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Beggars dancing in Italian landscape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1675
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • p6088

    p6088

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures of Odissi: "abhanga" (left), "alasa" (center) and one of the intermediary movements of "nritta" (right)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Folio from an illustrated manuscript of "Abhinaya Chandrika"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • p5255

    p5255

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Lydia Lopokova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1919
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0369

    p0369

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Entry of the masks (L'entrée des masques)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1879
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: mask, disguise
  • p3268

    p3268

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Memory of 1954, 01/01/1974
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on craft paper painted white
    • DATE: 1974
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.5 x 18.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s1501

    s1501

    • TITLE OF WORK: Deportment at the bar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4353

    s4353

    • ARTIST: Claire-Jeanne-Roberte Colinet (France, 1880-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dancer (Danseuse orientale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, gilt
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s2982

    s2982

    • ARTIST: Marcel-Louis Baugniet (Belgium, 1896-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Akarova dancing "Sicilienne" by Faure
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5450

    p5450

    • TITLE OF WORK: La chaîne des dames. Figure de quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s5251

    s5251

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère cabaret, Rainbow (Folies-Bergère, L'Arc en ciel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 123,9 x 86,7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballet pantomime en trois tableaux. Art Nouveau
  • p0609

    p0609

    • ARTIST: Daniel Urrabieta y Vierge (Spain/France, 1851-1904) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding in Britanny. Dance after lunch (Une noce bretonne. La danse après le festin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: wedding

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