Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3933

    s3933

    • ARTIST: Duncan Grant (U.K., 1885-1978)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on gray paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s0216

    s0216

    • TITLE OF WORK: Indian musicians and dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 3 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration in: Pancha Tantra - Winning of Friends. Program of the Little Ballet Troupe. Bombay, 1954.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Bombay
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • p6355

    p6355

    • TITLE OF WORK: Trojak
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1937
    • COMMENTS: Exhibition of the "Archives Internationales de la Danse", Paris 1937, Polish stand
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1836

    p1836

    • ARTIST: Henri Bouchard (France, 1875-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dancers (Les almées)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 160 x 133 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, face-to-face, Oriental
  • p7182

    p7182

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p9984

    p9984

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (France, 1796-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nymphs' dance (Danse des Nymphes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.7 x 67.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "COROT" at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • p7350

    p7350

    • TITLE OF WORK: L'onochone. Fleuve (River) in the ballet "Noces de Pélée et de Thétis"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1653
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0323

    p0323

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance at the Moulin Rouge (La danse au Moulin Rouge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph printed in color
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Cha-u-Kao dancing with a friend, to the right the back of Jane Avril
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: dance-hall
  • p2953

    p2953

    • ARTIST: Janusz Grabianski (Poland, 1929-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Polka Sieradzka, dance by the "Mazowsze" ensemble
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: folk, polka
  • p4792

    p4792

    • ARTIST: Johann Baptist Wengler (Germany, 1816-1899)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Landla dance (Der Landla)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1847
    • COMMENTS: The Landla or Landl or Ländler is a local dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Ländler, Landla, traditional
  • p8214

    p8214

    • ARTIST: Rex Whistler (U.K., 1905-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The rake's progress": The Betrayed Girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • COMMENTS: First performed by the Vic-Wells Ballet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 20/05/1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery, costume
  • s2567

    s2567

    • ARTIST: Balliol Salmon (U.K., 1868-1953) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The return to gaiety, as illustrated by the Chelsea Arts ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 50.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: In the Royal Albert Hall on 12/03/1919 upwards of 4,000 revellers assembled to resuscitate the famous carnival ball. The "camouflaged dancers" - for the war's "dazzle" devices were the predominant fea
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., England, London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p8028

    p8028

    • ARTIST: Arthur Wanjura (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At Traktir. Winter scenes from Saint Petersburg (Im Traktir. Petersburger Winterbilder)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • s2347

    s2347

    • TITLE OF WORK: Banknote of 100,000 rubles
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, bichrome
    • DATE: 1996
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.9 x 15.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Scene from the ballet "Vibranitcha" by Y. A. Glebay
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belarus
    • DANCE FORM: modern, theatrical
  • s5084

    s5084

    • ARTIST: Louis Valtat (France, 1869-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Party
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 72 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Latvia, Riga
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0546

    p0546

    • ARTIST: Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1989
    • DIMENSIONS: 82.6 x 54.6 x 61 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Colombia
  • s1143

    s1143

    • ARTIST: Troy Kinney (U.S.A., 1871-1938) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lydia Lopokova and Vaslav Nijinsky in "Les Sylphides"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.3 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p5727

    p5727

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Irish Jig. No. 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, steel engraving
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.3 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3360

    p3360

    • ARTIST: Patrick Procktor (U.K., 1936-2003)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kama Dev performing mudras
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1973
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2329

    p2329

    • ARTIST: Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern (Germany, 1892-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The mystical dance of the swan-dolls
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored pencils on paper
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 70 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Lithuania
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • p7516

    p7516

    • ARTIST: Brian Pinkney (U.S.A., 1961-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alvin Ailey at Lester Horton's Dance School
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p2312

    p2312

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • s3324

    s3324

    • ARTIST: Edouard Houssin (France, 1847-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bust of Loïe Fuller (Buste de Loïe Fuller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, plaster
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 27 x 14 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "La Loïe Fuller / Créatrice de la Danse Serpentine / E. Houssin SRE 1893". Compare with his bust in marble
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1876

    s1876

    • ARTIST: Moorsom (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: All the world's a crush: Where dress does not make a difference
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s3321

    s3321

    • ARTIST: Victor Prouvé (France, 1858-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The girl-flower (La fille-fleur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink on paper
    • DATE: 1896
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 32.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Preparatory drawing for the respective statuettes in bronze, glass and silver. Inspired by Loïe Fuller.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • p1126

    p1126

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the Latin Quarter (Au Quartier Latin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • p9677

    p9677

    • ARTIST: Emil Limmer (Germany, 1854-1931) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from Helgoland: Dance entertainment in the "Green water" (Bilder aus Helgoland: Tanzbelustigung im "Grünen Wasser")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.1 x 34.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Helgoland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p7086

    p7086

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky and Serge Diaghilev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • s5199

    s5199

    • ARTIST: Chilo Tulissi (Argentina, 1947-2012)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple (Pareja)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 2007
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • s2792

    s2792

    • TITLE OF WORK: The feast of the sheaf (La fête de la gerbe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1856
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, processional
  • s3017

    s3017

    • ARTIST: Eduardo Léon Garrido (Spain, 1856-1949) (painting); Baude (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance class (La leçon de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, from a painting
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 21.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: court, solo
    • KEYWORDS: mandolin, lute, instruction
  • p4790

    p4790

    • ARTIST: Eugen Neureuther (Germany, 1806-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance criticism in Upper Bavaria (Tanzstadel in Oberbayern)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.3 x 22.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: A Tanzstadel or Tanzh?tte was a shack made of wood where people used to gather to dance.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4779

    p4779

    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding in Spitz (Hochzeit in Spitz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2403

    p2403

    • ARTIST: Sven Erixson (Sweden, 1899-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance hall in Telemark (Danslokal i Telemarken)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 93 x 119 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden, Norway
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p8839

    p8839

    • TITLE OF WORK: Circular dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p2684

    p2684

    • ARTIST: A. Seifert
    • TITLE OF WORK: Morgenrot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p9326

    p9326

    • TITLE OF WORK: National dance, "Slim mien Moderken". Sketches in Heligoland (Helgoland)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.2 x 9.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Helgoland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s0578

    s0578

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Shaker settlement in the New Forest - The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.6 x 6.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion, worship
  • p0327

    p0327

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance rehearsal (La répétition de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 66 x 100 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0343

    p0343

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer leaving her loge (Danseuse sortant de sa loge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 52 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Degas"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4937

    p4937

    • TITLE OF WORK: Records, gramophones, electrophones Erich Müller (Schallplatten, Gramophone, Elektrophone Erich Müller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina, Paraguay
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p7313

    p7313

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Spirit of the mountains", grand ballet by Horschelt. Final scene of the first act ("Der Berggeist", grosses Ballet von Horschelt. Schluss Scene des ersten Aktes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1829
    • COMMENTS: Revival of the ballet with Fanny Elssler, with the original scene designs by Mathias Gail and Hermann Neefe, and costumes by Lucca Piazza
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2996

    s2996

    • ARTIST: A. Valente
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance costume (Costume de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0150

    p0150

    • ARTIST: Paul Poiret (France, 1879-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketch for a Persian ballet (Croquis pour un ballet persan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5073

    p5073

    • ARTIST: D. Arnel
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. J'aime à la folie!
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1972
    • COMMENTS: Spectacle in 2 acts et 40 scenes, directed by Michel Gyarmathy. Choreography by Jacques Fabre, music by Henri Betti and J. P. Landreau, sets and costumes by Michel Gyarmathy, lyrics by André Hornez
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p8111

    p8111

    • TITLE OF WORK: Flutist and acrobatic female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -550
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p4607

    p4607

    • ARTIST: David Vinckboons (Netherlands, 1576-1632?) (follower of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant kirmes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1610
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Work of a painter of the circle of Vinckeboons
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4625

    s4625

    • ARTIST: Tuser
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances of Mallorca: Mateixa (Danzas de Mallorca: Mateixa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color postcard
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Baleares, Mallorca
    • DANCE FORM: Mateixa, traditional, couple, Spanish dance
  • p5200

    p5200

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance Studio Alain Bernard. International Summer Course for Dance in Bern 21/07/1977-03/08/1977
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: jazz
  • p5081

    p5081

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère de Paris in the Gran Teatro Opera of Buenos Aires (Folies-Bergère de Paris en el Gran Teatro Opera de Buenos Aires)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1965
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Directed by Clemente Lococo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall

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