TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La création du monde"
TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
DATE: 1923
COMMENTS: "La création du monde", a ballet by Blaise Cendrars for the Ballets Suédois. Music by Darius Milhaud; curtain, sets and costumes by Fernand Léger; sets painted by Marcel Guérin; choreography by Jean B
TITLE OF WORK: Here's an odd notion to invent a machine to maintain fourth position. My dear child, in order to succeed. first a dancer must break her legs
TITLE OF WORK: Play music and dance (Sonare et balare)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
DATE: 1380
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Probably made in Verona, Italy, the picture shows a "health dance". This medical manual recommends music and dance for therapeutic purposes, according to the Persian scholar Albochasis de Baldach
TITLE OF WORK: A ball given in the Ministry of War by His Excellency the Marchal Randon (Bal donné au ministère de la guerre par S. Exc. Le maréchal Randon)
TITLE OF WORK: Terracotta figure of a woman dancing
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
DATE: -200
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 19.5 cm height
COMMENTS: Made and found in Cyrenaica, Benghazi, Libya. Terracotta figure of a woman dancing, twirling to her left, her left leg flung out, her head turned back over her right shoulder, her left arm (missing) p
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Cyrenaica, Libya
TITLE OF WORK: Final scene of act 2 from the ballet "From Siberia to Moscow", choreographed by A. Bournonville
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1876
COMMENTS: "From Siberia to Moscow" was the last ballet by Bournonville. Its premiere took place on 07/12/1876. In this scene Ivanoff, danced by Daniel Krum, executes a mazurka with Nathalia, danced by the Swedi
