Dance History Gallery

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  • p2875

    p2875

    • TITLE OF WORK: Finish national dances No. 9
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Suomalaisia Kansallistansseja. Kärriukko. Kärrgubben.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s5978

    s5978

    • TITLE OF WORK: The acanthus column with the three maidens holding the symbols of Apollo over their heads
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble
    • DATE: -328
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Initially thought to represent dancing Thyiads, the local equivalent of Maenads. Now believed to portray Athenian maidens, probably the three daughters of Cecrops, king of Athens.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • s3013

    s3013

    • ARTIST: Paul Renouard (France, 1845-1924) (sketch); Lix (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival in Paris - Charity festival given at the new Opera on Lent Sunday (Le carnaval à Paris, - Fête de bienfaisance donnée au nouvel Opéra le dimanche gras)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 31.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4504

    p4504

    • ARTIST: Markos Zarikos (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Trata dance in Mykonos Island (Choros tis Tratas sti Mykono)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, tempera
    • DATE: 1993
    • DIMENSIONS: 70 x 100 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Ta choreftika", published in a booklet for the New Year 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, trata
  • p9080

    p9080

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Liturgie": A Saint
    • 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,
  • s4339

    s4339

    • TITLE OF WORK: La bourrée des accordailles
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Rouergue, Quercy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bourrée des accordailles, , couple
  • p9086

    p9086

    • ARTIST: Charles-Jean Bisschops (Belgium, 1894-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 233.5 x 138 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1913/14
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Belgium, Israel, Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, stage, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p9640

    p9640

    • ARTIST: Jean Baptiste Benard (1720-1789)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country feast (Fête champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 91 x 71.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair of oil paintings, the other being a "scène galante"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s4529

    s4529

    • ARTIST: Jean Pierre Pribilois
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer, or Nijinsky (1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 2005
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p8210

    p8210

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Pulcinella"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • COMMENTS: First performance by the Diaghilev Ballet at the Grand Opera, Paris, 15/05/1920
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p7566

    p7566

    • ARTIST: Honoré Daumier (France, 1808-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The "ballet mother"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p4277

    p4277

    • TITLE OF WORK: Circle dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Serbia
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p0300

    p0300

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the Moulin Rouge - 6 (Bal du Moulin Rouge -6)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • p0906

    p0906

    • TITLE OF WORK: Praise the Lord, psalm (Aineite ton Kyrion, psalmos). Maidens dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1631
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Epirus
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p7982

    p7982

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer as Man of Ice (Homme de glace) in the "Ballet des fêtes de Bacchus"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and gouache
    • DATE: 1651
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, court
  • p3176

    p3176

    • ARTIST: Geneviève Zang
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar in "Icare"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, brown patina
    • DATE: 1966
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 cm high x 32 cm long
    • COMMENTS: Signed and titled S. Lifar Icare, dated 1966.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3828

    s3828

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Friday 21 jully, Ancient Theater. GRCOP Group of Choreographic Research of the Paris Opera -2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s0153

    s0153

    • ARTIST: Sinibaldo Tordi (Italy, 1876-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the concert
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 43 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Sinibaldo 1923"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p6359

    p6359

    • ARTIST: R. Titelbach
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing gathering at the Kalenic Monastery
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Yugoslavia, Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2856

    p2856

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maurice Béjart in a press conference in Athens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1986
    • COMMENTS: Athens, 12/06/1986
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4309

    p4309

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina in "Le spectre de la rose"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Created at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 19/04/1911, with Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinski
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2867

    p2867

    • ARTIST: Valim
    • TITLE OF WORK: Slovakian folk dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Slovakia
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p2917

    p2917

    • TITLE OF WORK: Country life (La vie champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s0766

    s0766

    • TITLE OF WORK: The employment of children in pantomimes. Finished pupils and their mistress. Notes at a rehearsal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, instruction, theater
  • s2030

    s2030

    • TITLE OF WORK: Brigitte Bardot in the film of Michel Boisrond. Do you want to dance with me? (Brigitte Bardot dans un film de Michel Boisrond. Voulez-vous danser avec moi?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster
    • DATE: 1959
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p5987

    p5987

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Extasy (Extase)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0083

    s0083

    • TITLE OF WORK: The god-child (O vaptistikos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: music score cover
  • s3720

    s3720

    • ARTIST: Tommaso Borgonio (Italy, 1620-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet "Spring triumphs over winter": Hannibal and Caesar (Ballet "La primavera trionfante dell' inverno": Hannibal and Caesar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache, touched with gold
    • DATE: 1657
    • DIMENSIONS: 46.1 x 29.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Décors conceived by the stage engineer and sculptor Bernardo Quadri
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: sets
  • s3063

    s3063

    • TITLE OF WORK: Market day in Morocco (Un jour de marché au Maroc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.8 x 38.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Un jour de marché au Maroc" by J. Bernard d'Attanoux
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, tambourine, gun
  • p4191

    p4191

    • ARTIST: Theodor Aman (Romania, 1831-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hora, Ebosa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0234

    p0234

    • ARTIST: Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito as Fatma in the ballet "La fille de marbre", act 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: "La fille de marbre", a ballet choreographed and danced by Arthur Saint-Léon. Presented in the Académie Royale de Musique
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5053

    p5053

    • ARTIST: Suer
    • TITLE OF WORK: Music-hall scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1902
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s0717

    s0717

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball given by the troopers of the Second Life Guards at St. James's Hall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 30.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s3589

    s3589

    • ARTIST: Simon Hollòsy (Hungary, 1857-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Girls dancing at the edge of the woods
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p3026

    p3026

    • ARTIST: Auguste-François Gorguet (France, 1862-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p0783

    p0783

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing maiden at Dojo temple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Picturing the onnagata Nakamura Tomijuro 1 (1719-1786), third son of the great onnagata Yoshizawa Ayame 1.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s1779

    s1779

    • ARTIST: Ezio Frigerio (Italy, 1930-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant" (Sleeping beauty"): Prologue
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1997
    • COMMENTS: "La belle au bois dormant" (Sleeping beauty) ballet produced by Rudolf Nureiev at the Paris Opera in 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s2380

    s2380

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 25
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p0221

    p0221

    • TITLE OF WORK: Almehs Oriental dancers (Almées)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Tunisia,
  • s3515

    s3515

    • ARTIST: Hélène Marinelli
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches from tha ballet "Nautes"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1954
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Serge Lifar, music by Jeanne Leleu, scenery by Yves Brayer. Distribution: Yvette Chauviré, Madeleine Kafon, Michel Renault, Max Bozzoni
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0069

    p0069

    • ARTIST: Max Jacob (France, 1876-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danza)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "Max Jacob La Danza"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall
  • p8766

    p8766

    • ARTIST: Carol Popp de Szathmary (Hungary, 1812-1887) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Journey of the Austrian crown prince couple to the Orient: Ball in the National Theater, Bucarest (Die Orientreise des österrreichischen Kronprinzenpaares: Der Ball im Nationaltheater zu Bukarest)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.4 x 34.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania, Austria, Bucarest
    • DANCE FORM: round, traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p4907

    p4907

    • ARTIST: Edoardo Ximenes (Italy, 1852-1932) (drawing); Barberis (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Exelsior dance by Manzotti at the theater of the Scala in Milan (Il ballo "Excelsior" di Manzotti, al teatro della Scala a Milano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2977

    s2977

    • ARTIST: Marcel-Louis Baugniet (Belgium, 1896-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p6034

    p6034

    • ARTIST: Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "Dancer" (Studie für "Tänzerin")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
  • s1391

    s1391

    • ARTIST: Graham Simmons (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: On with the dance at the Embassy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.3 x 14 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Embassy, Fortune and I" by Luigi Naintre, called "Luigi", managing director of London's best-known social club
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s5403

    s5403

    • ARTIST: Rogelio de Egusquiza (Spain, 1845-1915)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The end of the ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3682

    s3682

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La création du monde"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costumes
  • s5450

    s5450

    • ARTIST: Rudolf Hirth du Frênes (Germany, 1846-1916)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Belle of the ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • s2034

    s2034

    • TITLE OF WORK: Turn out your toes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1791
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: intstruction, violin, child

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