Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3389

    s3389

    • TITLE OF WORK: Silene 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
  • p5140

    p5140

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Giselle", ballet by Coralli
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1941
    • COMMENTS: Sadler's Wells, Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann; music by A. Adam, décor by William Chappel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2475

    p2475

    • ARTIST: Victor Koos (Poland, 1862-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: History of music (Histoire de la musique). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • p0117

    p0117

    • ARTIST: Thomas Fuller
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young girls dancing Ancient Greece (Jeunes filles dansant Grèce antique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1650
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p6851

    p6851

    • ARTIST: Gustave Jean Jacquet (France, 1846-1909) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet (Das Menuet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 45 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s3397

    s3397

    • ARTIST: George Stathopoulos (Greece, 1944-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Song of Spring
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, on paper
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 x 105 cm
    • COMMENTS: 195 copies
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: music, harp
  • s0240

    s0240

    • ARTIST: Ernst Hosang (Germany, 1857-after 1884) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a village inn in the Spree Wood (Tanz in einem Dorfkruge im Spreewald)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 33.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Spreewald
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, couple, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • s4356

    s4356

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental or Egyptian dancer (Danseuse orientale ou égyptienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, gilt, marble base
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s1854

    s1854

    • TITLE OF WORK: Milonga of my loves, Pedro Laurenz, Hector Farrel (Milonga de mis amores, Pedro Laurenz, Hector Farrel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1937
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: milonga, couple, ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: music score cover
  • s3415

    s3415

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes - Trachten (Costumes). Région du Caucase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1838
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.1 x 15.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: No. 2: Female dancer
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Caucasus, Georgia, Armenia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p7787

    p7787

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tarantella, Sorrento
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s2664

    s2664

    • TITLE OF WORK: Indian dance - Pueblo tribe (Danse indienne - tribu des Pueblos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by A.V.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p3116

    p3116

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "Parade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, détrempe on canvas
    • DATE: 1917
    • COMMENTS: "Parade", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by E. Satie, story by Jean Cocteau, choreography by L. Massine, scenery and costtumes by Pablo Picasso.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p3079

    p3079

    • TITLE OF WORK: The joy of life. Ball and pageant
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1929
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p8136

    p8136

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two studies for Taos Buffalo Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p0878

    p0878

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers at rest (Deux danseurs au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, Monte Carlo
  • p5371

    p5371

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hüseyin Rahmi'nin "Sipsevdi"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p3844

    p3844

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Jarabe (El Jarabe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, jarabe
  • p5818

    p5818

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mexican types (Types mexicains)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.1 x 16.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Mexico" by P. Blanchard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7817

    p7817

    • TITLE OF WORK: Poem and caricatures for the ballet "Le jugement de Pâris"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, poem
  • p4052

    p4052

    • ARTIST: Luis Paret y Alcázar (Spain, 1746-1799)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masked ball (Baile de màscaras)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s3531

    s3531

    • ARTIST: Hans Erni (Switzerland, 1909-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stars of the Soviet Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1954
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Soviet, Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
  • p5839

    p5839

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance on 500 franc banknote
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 13.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Madagascar
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2566

    p2566

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pepita de Oliva. El Ole.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 19 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • p6539

    p6539

    • ARTIST: Stebbing
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller. Opening movement of the dance "Le papillon"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p1738

    p1738

    • ARTIST: Nils von Dardel (Sweden, 1888-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jean Börlin in "Danse siamoise"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 116 x 82 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Siam, Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9899

    p9899

    • ARTIST: Ercole Gigante (Italy, 1815-1860)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Castel dell'Oro from Posillipo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.5 x 50.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Pisillipo
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p4544

    p4544

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La création du monde". The Bird
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1160

    p1160

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Leafless roses (Les roses effeuillées)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s0855

    s0855

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches from the Gabon River, West coast of Africa - Native dance by moonlight
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 15.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Gabon, West Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, female
    • KEYWORDS: night
  • p2881

    p2881

    • TITLE OF WORK: Child's play, Old Marken
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1951
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5035

    p5035

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the opera-ballet "Le marriage de Pelée et de Thétis", by Jacques Torelli
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1654
    • COMMENTS: Spectacle lasting four hours given in the Louvre for the young king Louis XIV, in 1654
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: court, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p8694

    p8694

    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival at Hartford Mill, Oldham, given by Mr. Platt to 8000 of his workpeople
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.6 x 34.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • s0655

    s0655

    • TITLE OF WORK: Visit of the Shah of Persia to the City - The ball in the Guildhall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s0327

    s0327

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Hilaire (France, 1753-1822) (attribured to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers near the temple of Zeus, the Acropolis beyond
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1777
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.5 x 63 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p8522

    p8522

    • ARTIST: Charles Vogt (France, 1810-1890)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Jean Coralli
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1858
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: Choreographer
  • p2027

    p2027

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pamela May in "Les patineurs" (The skaters)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2564

    s2564

    • ARTIST: Théodore Goselin (sketch); Frédéric de Haenen (Netherlads, 1853-1928) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The procession of Echternach (La procession d'Echternach)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 44 cm
    • COMMENTS: Passage des pélerins sur la place du Marché, le mardi de la Pentecôte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Luxemburg, Echternach
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p8435

    p8435

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ceramic figure of a dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ceramic, statuette
    • DATE: 1300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Period of the Yüan Dynasty (1271-1368)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
  • p9603

    p9603

    • ARTIST: Georges Rouault (France, 1871-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le fils prodigue", scene 1: La nuit sur le port
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1929
    • COMMENTS: "Le fils prodigue", ballet in three scenes by the Ballets Russes. First performance by the Diaghilev Ballet at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, on 20/05/1929. Music by Serge Prokofiev, choreography
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p2109

    p2109

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Léonide Massine and Serge Diaghilev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0688

    s0688

    • ARTIST: lieutenant E. R. Penrose (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance at Government House.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.1 x 12.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Holidays in India - At Poona during the rainy season
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Poona, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s1144

    s1144

    • ARTIST: Troy Kinney (U.S.A., 1871-1938) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pavlova and Volinen in "Amarilla"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.3 x 10.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • s1635

    s1635

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le diable amoureux": Le Diable
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1965
    • COMMENTS: "Le diable amoureux", ballet de Jean Anouilh and Roland Petit
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7250

    p7250

    • ARTIST: Jean "PAL" Paléologue (Romania, 1860-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Olympia. Grand ballet "Brighton". Musique de Léopold Wenzel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, U.K., Romania, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Oriental?
  • p1517

    p1517

    • ARTIST: Christian Jequel (France, 1935-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Gypsy festival - The meeting again (La fête des gitans - Les retrouvailles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: Gypsy
  • p2530

    p2530

    • ARTIST: Nicolai Legat (Russia, 1869-1937) and Sergei Legat (Russia, 1875-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Per Christian Johansson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0733

    s0733

    • ARTIST: Frank Dadd (U.K., 1851-1929) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The procession of the King of Bekwai: An incident of the march of the Ashanti Expedition to Kumassi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.9 x 46.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ghana, Kumasi, Coomassi, Kumassi
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, processional, male
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p1846

    p1846

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maria Piltz in the "Sacral dance of the chosen one" from "Le sacre du printemps" (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0627

    p0627

    • TITLE OF WORK: Saint Vincent's dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: St. Vincent clair et beau, plus de vin que d'eau. 22nd of January

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