Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3829

    p3829

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dolly Gascoigne, variety artist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7418

    p7418

    • ARTIST: Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two Souliote costumes (Deux costumes souliotes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1824
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.9 x 45.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Epirus, Souli
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4185

    s4185

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Tiptop. Operette in 3 acts by Th. Sakellaridis. Musical score cover
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s4619

    s4619

    • ARTIST: Plantu or Jean Plantureux (France, 1951-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance festival at Chateauvallon (Festival de danse à Chateauvallon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, caricature, cartoon
    • DATE: 1997
    • COMMENTS: The caption says "I do not think it will please intellectuals". FN (Front Nationsl) is the extreme right party of France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: politics
  • p9802

    p9802

    • ARTIST: Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa (Spain, 1871-1959)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The white ball (Le bal blanc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49 x 75 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • p6535

    p6535

    • ARTIST: Will H. Bradley (U.S.A., 1868-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The serpentine dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1894
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5792

    s5792

    • TITLE OF WORK: Band-cup with Dionysiac revelers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure band-cup
    • DATE: -530
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.8 x 30.48 x 21.91 cm
    • COMMENTS: Black-figure ceramic with added red and white
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • p0454

    p0454

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of a dancing couple (Etude d'un couple dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3032

    s3032

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Jessie Bond as Chinna Loofa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: "The nautch girl" with the Savoy Company at the Savoy Theatre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, India, U.K., London,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4459

    p4459

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Silence
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9583

    p9583

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les biches": Two Women
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and ink on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les biches", ballet in one act with songs. Music by Francis Poulenc, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; curtain, décors and costumes by Marie Laurencin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3667

    p3667

    • ARTIST: Dante Paolocci (Italy, 1856-1926) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Jota del Mulinero. L' Estudiantina. Roma
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 21.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Un estudiante en Valencia / Se pus? ? pintar el Sol / Y de hambre que tenia / Pint? un pan de mamicion.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: jota
    • KEYWORDS: student
  • p1041

    p1041

    • ARTIST: Torii Kiyonaga (Japan, 1752-1815)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The actor Segawa Kikunojo III dancing the "shakkyo"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1789
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.7 x 25.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Shakkyo is a well-known kabuki dance, executed by a lion in frenzy.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, kabuki
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • s3856

    s3856

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance (Baile espanol)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • p2761

    p2761

    • ARTIST: Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlands, 1450?-1516)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The adoration of the sages. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1490
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Holland, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3175

    p3175

    • ARTIST: Pierre de Boulongne (France)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Classical acrobatic adage (Adage acrobatique classique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, clear patina
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3924

    p3924

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing to "Marche militaire" by Schubert
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink and wash on paper
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p8450

    p8450

    • ARTIST: Lebreton (drawing); J. Worms (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A sailors' dance on board the vessel "Bretagne" during Their Majesties crossing from Cherbourg to Brest
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.3 x 17.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Sailors' dance on borad the "Bretagne" during the crossing of Their Majesties from Cherbourg to Brest
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military, navy, marine, ship
  • p7364

    p7364

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933) (drawing); Calvet, Grégoire (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four of the figurines of the table set by the Manufacture de Sèvres
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, porcelain, biscuit
    • DATE: 1908
    • COMMENTS: Manufacture de Sèvres
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6940

    p6940

    • ARTIST: Emperor Maximilian
    • TITLE OF WORK: Emperor Maximilian I leading his jesters in a masquerade dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s0288

    s0288

    • ARTIST: Amédée Forestier (France, 1854-1930) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsing for the pantomime
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.4 x 32.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p3081

    p3081

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler in the costume for the Cachucha in "Le diable boiteux"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • COMMENTS: From "The beauties of the opera", published in Paris and London, 1845.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1176

    s1176

    • ARTIST: Marcel Bouraine (France, 1886-1948)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hindu dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, France
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p6668

    p6668

    • ARTIST: Irène Leduc
    • TITLE OF WORK: A lady who shows herself (La femme qui s'affiche)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5224

    s5224

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez, the female demon from revolutionary year 1848 (Lola Montez, der weibliche Daemon aus dem Revolutionsjahr 1848)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 1848
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, politics, caricature, Lola Montez
  • p1951

    p1951

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Conversation in the wings
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5722

    p5722

    • ARTIST: Frederick Goodall (U.K., 1822-1904) (drawing); J. Carter (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The village festival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 25.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4463

    s4463

    • ARTIST: Paulus Fürst (Germany, 1605-1666)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wounds in our certain healing (Vulneris en nostri certa solnq medela)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, flyer
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
  • s0105

    s0105

    • TITLE OF WORK: A little dance (Ein Taenzchen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the musical score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s5015

    s5015

    • ARTIST: Gobelin Workshops
    • TITLE OF WORK: Seven men dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 225 x 405 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, popular, round
  • p5675

    p5675

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fandango dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • s2949

    s2949

    • TITLE OF WORK: Procession of the Immaculate Conception at Sarayacu, Peru (Procession de l'Immaculée-Conception, à Sarayacu. Pérou)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.3 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru, Sarayacu
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s5243

    s5243

    • ARTIST: Joseph Stieler (Germany, 1781-1858) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was the lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Joseph Stieler had painted a famous portrait of Lola Montez.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: Lola Montez, portrait
  • p7652

    p7652

    • TITLE OF WORK: Telokles plays the lyre and Diodoros dances with krotala
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure vase
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: music, krotala, lyra
  • s4809

    s4809

    • ARTIST: Gérard Jean-Baptise Scotin (1671-1716)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tchingui or Turkish dancer no. 55 (Tchingui ou danseur turc no. 55)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving watercolored
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Numbered and monogrammed J.B., bearing the royal privilege.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey, Ottoman
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo, Oriental
  • p5074

    p5074

    • ARTIST: Romain de Tirtoff "Erté" (Russia, 1892-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. J'aime à la folie!
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1974
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • 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
  • p5516

    p5516

    • ARTIST: Georges Jacouloff (Georgia, 1884-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Argentina. Grand gala. Théâtre des Champs-élysées 05/12/1932
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1932
    • COMMENTS: Accompagnée par Louis Galve et Yves Nat
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p0284

    p0284

    • ARTIST: René Bertrand
    • TITLE OF WORK: Valse Chaloupée by Mistinguette and Max Dearly
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, couple, valse chaloupée, waltz
  • p3856

    p3856

    • TITLE OF WORK: Grotesque dancers on a Corinthian pyxis vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -685
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.2 cm height
    • COMMENTS: The dancers have their bellies and buttocks stuffed under a red dress, a costume that will be later worn by comedians
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: humor, comic
  • p7064

    p7064

    • ARTIST: James Fitton (U.K, 1899-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7284

    p7284

    • TITLE OF WORK: Exercise in the cancan school of Nini Patte-en l'air
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p3550

    p3550

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maenads dancing (?) holding dismembered animals
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p0289

    p0289

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the Moulin Rouge, Paris (Bal du Moulin Rouge, Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1008

    s1008

    • ARTIST: J. L. K. Van Dort (Sri Lanka, 1831-1898) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Our volunteers in Ceylon and their experiences of life in camp. The Cafrinhoe - the ta-ra-ra of Ceylon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sri Lanka, Ceylon, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p7913

    p7913

    • TITLE OF WORK: Snake dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bas relief, volcanic stone
    • DATE: 500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 28 cm
    • COMMENTS: Volcanic stone slab from Oaxaca
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • s1583

    s1583

    • ARTIST: Maxime Dethomas (France, 1867-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Sylvia": Faunes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and wash
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "Sylvia", ballet on music by L. Delibes, choreography by L. Mérante. Costumes for the remake of 1919, with a choreography by L. Staats.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5130

    s5130

    • ARTIST: Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japan, 1769-1825)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Parodies of the Sanbaso dance: Allusion to the character of Okina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1855
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: female
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s3069

    s3069

    • ARTIST: Henri de Montaut (France, 1825-1897) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The whirling dervishes (Les derviches tourneurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, lithograph
    • DATE: 1870
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s0396

    s0396

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Bechstein (Germany, 1843-1914) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The church festival at Grotzhessllohe near Munich on the first Easter holiday (Das Kirchweih zu Grotzhessellohe bei München am ersten Pfingstfeiertag)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.1 x 34.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria, Munich, München
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p3806

    p3806

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Macaroni Dance (La danse du macaroni)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: humor, comic

Random image

s0310

Visits counter : 10082