Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3996

    s3996

    • ARTIST: Victor Mitroshyn (Ukraine, 1995-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1995
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p3712

    p3712

    • TITLE OF WORK: La Chaste Suzanne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: A comedy film at the Moulin Rouge music-hall, Paris. Directed by César Amadori. Cast: Maruja Diaz, Noël Roquevert, Armand Mestral, the dancers of french cancan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s0979

    s0979

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Grögler (Germany, 1839-1897) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from the Bavarian highlands. Schuhplattl dance (Bilder aus dem bayerischen Hochland. Schuhplattl-Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 15.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: Schuhplattler, traditional, couple, German
  • p3691

    p3691

    • ARTIST: Charles Gesmar (France, 1900-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Rhythm is the thing" with Marion Forde. Cover illustration
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1926
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1744

    s1744

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A fugure of the cancan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
    • KEYWORDS: exercise
  • s4612

    s4612

    • ARTIST: Giorgos Sikeliotis (Greece, 1917-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flute player and dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 1966
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: music, crotales, castanets
  • p0732

    p0732

    • ARTIST: Luigi Baccio del Bianco (Italy, 1604-1657)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Florence
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a series of works, in Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale CL 18 cod. 6
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Florence
  • p9294

    p9294

    • ARTIST: Gerard Hoet (Netherlands, 1648-1733)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A bacchanal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • s4907

    s4907

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballroom dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, postcard, colour
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
  • p8742

    p8742

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p9478

    p9478

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene of the ballet "Le renard"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1921
    • COMMENTS: "Le renard", ballet burlesque with songs, in one act, by the Ballets Russes. Music and story by Igor Stravisnsky; choreography by B, Nijinska; decors and costumes by M. Larionov
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5549

    s5549

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer, probably Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s5094

    s5094

    • ARTIST: Marta Fuks-Frankiewicz (Poland, 1981-) & Rafa? Frankiewicz (Poland, 1900?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Amber Faun. The faun of excellence for Prof. Dr. Alkis Raftis for his contribution to uniting artists and institutions dealing with the art of dance worlwide.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 2010
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: Nijinsky
  • s2115

    s2115

    • TITLE OF WORK: Drama in a music hall. Two rope-dancers fall into the lions' cage (Un drame dans un music-hall. Deux danseuses de corde tombent dans la cage aux lions)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, cover, color
    • DATE: 1907
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.5 x 26.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: accident, animal,
  • p8059

    p8059

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Diaghilev and two men seated at a café-table
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1929
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: Initialed.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: management
  • p3868

    p3868

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two blacks dancing "el tango"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • COMMENTS: Cartoon published in the Argentinian newspaper "La illustracion argentina", November 1882
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s4615

    s4615

    • ARTIST: Maria Moraitou (Greece, 1900?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Traditional dance from Corfu
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2002
    • COMMENTS: Distributed as a wishing card by the artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Corfu
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folklore
    • KEYWORDS: music, harp
  • s1900

    s1900

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924) (watercolor painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for L'Amazone
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 14.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Léon Bakst dans le Ballet Russe" by Jacques-Emile Blanche
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0365

    p0365

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer on pointes (Danseuse sur pointes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1878
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5370

    s5370

    • ARTIST: Sir William Russell Flint (U.K., 1880-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Mirror of the Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1961
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p2658

    p2658

    • ARTIST: Christian Rohlfs (Germany, 1849-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Apache dance (Apachentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on canvas
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 79.5 x 58.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: Indian,
  • s2927

    s2927

    • ARTIST: Theodor de Bry (Flanders, 1528-1598) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Court ball given on the occasion of the crowning of Mathias the 1st (Bal donné à la cour à l'occasion du couronnement de Mathias 1er)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1612
    • COMMENTS: Their Majesties dance, preceded by two torch-bearers also dancing
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bohemia, France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s3391

    s3391

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr and dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at the ancient Thysdrus, now El Jem; Greco-Roman school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Tunisia, Greece, Roman
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4533

    s4533

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Jota dance of Aragon (La jota de Aragon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, postcard
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Dos grandes amores guarda el que nace en Aragon: la Pilarica en el alma, la jota en el corazon.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Aragon
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, jota, Spanish dance
  • s0572

    s0572

    • ARTIST: Horace Harral (U.K., 1818-1891?) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fiddle of old Wassielewsky was in constant request
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from the novel "By Celia's arbour"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: military, marine, sailor
  • s1131

    s1131

    • ARTIST: John Haynes Williams (U.K., 1836-1908) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The last dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.9 x 15.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Royal Academy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: invitation
  • p5610

    p5610

    • TITLE OF WORK: Finally (Finalmente)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p4339

    p4339

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for "Le jeune homme et la mort". First project
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1947
    • COMMENTS: "Le jeune homme et la mort" ballet of Jean Cocteau; dance, sets and costumes related by Jean Cocteau to Roland Petit (choreographer), Wakhevitch (decorator) and Karinska (costumière)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p5389

    p5389

    • TITLE OF WORK: Morris dancers in jesters' costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1320
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, morris
  • p2554

    p2554

    • ARTIST: John Brandard (U.K., 1812-1863) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Harvest Dance of the Viennoise Children
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Vienna Children. Music cover lithographed by Sarony & Major, New York, 1846.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7971

    p7971

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7016

    p7016

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Bari Sisters
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, steel engraving
    • DATE: 1796
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3317

    p3317

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tsifteteli dance, red background, 03/01/1979
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on craft paper
    • DATE: 1979
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 03/01/1979
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, tsifteteli
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p8279

    p8279

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The caverns of ice" at the Alhambra, Leicester Square
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.2 x 23.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: "The caverns of ice", a ballet on music by Rivière; with 400 performers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2628

    p2628

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Narcisse": Nymph Echo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache, pencil and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.5 x 26.5 cm
    • 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
  • p2681

    p2681

    • ARTIST: Géo Roussel (France, 1860-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Before the curtain call (Avant le rideau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s0788

    s0788

    • TITLE OF WORK: Life in a training-ship - Sketches on board H.M.S. "Boscawen". The sick and hale
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 14
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, male
    • KEYWORDS: marine, military, ship, sea, gun
  • p8533

    p8533

    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's ball (Le bal d'enfants)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.4 x 22.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre du Vaudeville: "Les grands enfants", com;die en trois actes de MM. Gondinet et Paul de Margallier
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p2677

    p2677

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer (Danseuse cambodgienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
  • p2408

    p2408

    • ARTIST: Sven Erixson (Sweden, 1899-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "Miss Julie" (Fröken Julie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • COMMENTS: Postcard published in 1983 on the occasion of Birgit Cullberg's 75th birthday. This work served for the performances of the ballet all over the world, since its premiere in Stockholm's Royal Theatre i
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2866

    p2866

    • ARTIST: Valim
    • TITLE OF WORK: Slovakian folk dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Slovakia
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p9082

    p9082

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Liturgie": A Seraph
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1915
    • COMMENTS: Autolithograph, signed. "Liturgie", ballet on religious music for the Ballets Russes in Paris, 1915; choreography by L. Massin; décors and costumes by N. Goncharova. The production was prepard but was
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: religion, costume,
  • p2723

    p2723

    • ARTIST: François-Louis-Joseph Watteau (France, 1758-1823)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet under the oak tree (Le menuet sous le chêne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1715
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, minuet
  • s1527

    s1527

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer: Mlle Mila Cirul
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage, modern
  • s0488

    s0488

    • ARTIST: Francesco Reinhard
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Christmas evening in Madrid: Entertainment in the streets (Der Weihnachtsabend in Madrid: Belustigung auf der Strasse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.9 x 23.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Madrid
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, drum, guitar
  • s0914

    s0914

    • ARTIST: Laura Knight (U.K., 1877-1970) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ready for the next ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.3 x 6,2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Russian Ballet, exhibition of pictures by Miss Laura Knight at the Leicester Galleries, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7823

    p7823

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in the court of Henry IV
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, wood, lid of a cembalo
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p8784

    p8784

    • ARTIST: Paul Heydel (Germany, 1854-1935) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Nubians in the Zoological Garden of Dresden. War dance (Die Nubier im Zoologischen Garten zu Dresden. Kriegstanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Germany, Dresden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: war, weapon
  • p5811

    p5811

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ramadan procession at Nossi-Bé (Procession de Ramadan à Nossi-Bé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Nossi-Bé is an island off the western coast of Madagascar. Together with the other island, Nossi-Mitsion, they were bought by France from Bioumèke, queen of the Saklaves.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Madagascar
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s5428

    s5428

    • ARTIST: Serge Ivanoff (Russia, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance

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