Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p2111

    p2111

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Léonide Massine, Serge Diaghilev and three dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5883

    p5883

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pierre Gardel in the "Ballet de Télémaque"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1790
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2374

    s2374

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 19
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p8568

    p8568

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball in honour of President Lincoln in the Great Hall of the Patent Office at Washington
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.7 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Washington D.C.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: politics
  • s0316

    s0316

    • ARTIST: Henri Girardet (Switzerland, 1848-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The baby's first steps
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 63 x 88.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Resina 1882"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: child, baby, instruction
  • p2986

    p2986

    • TITLE OF WORK: A tour in a saline (Una gira en una salina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, postcard
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Stengel & Co., Dresden, 19997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Cadix
    • DANCE FORM: folk, solo, Spanish dance
  • s3246

    s3246

    • ARTIST: Henri Julien (Canada, 1852-1908)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rigodon dance in the house of Baptisette Augé at Lanoraie (Le rigodon chez Baptisette Augé à Lanoraie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: rigodon
  • s4071

    s4071

    • ARTIST: Walter Crane (U.K., 1845-1915) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pan pipes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, from a watercolor
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.9 x 13.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustrations from the catalogue of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, Pan pipes
  • p3901

    p3901

    • ARTIST: Lorenzi
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the cabaret (Au cabaret)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p2822

    p2822

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A trio from the ballet "The stranger" by Fr. Martin and Andreas Rikakis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1973
    • COMMENTS: Ballet inspired by the play "Goats Island" by Warren Betty. Athens Experimental Ballet, choreography by Yannis Metsis. Athens, Aliki Theater, 05/03/1973.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, trio
  • p9662

    p9662

    • TITLE OF WORK: La Cracovienne, as danced by Fanny Elssler
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p8151

    p8151

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Red Deer Dance, early winter at Taos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p3254

    p3254

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arabesque néoclassique
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5065

    s5065

    • TITLE OF WORK: Six male dancers under a rope walker
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, male
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, zurna, shawm, tambourines, acrobat
  • s0671

    s0671

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Peri
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3783

    s3783

    • ARTIST: Abdulcelil Levni (Ottoman Empire, ?-1732)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Five boy dancers and four dwarf buffoons dancing to zurna and tambourine (Çengi ve soytanlar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1720
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Ottoman
    • DANCE FORM: group solo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, zurna, tambourine
  • p3564

    p3564

    • ARTIST: A. I. Monasselidge
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Berikaoba folk play
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1947
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 122 x 50 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia, Tbilisi
    • DANCE FORM: folk
    • KEYWORDS: folk play, theater
  • p0653

    p0653

    • TITLE OF WORK: Funeral of a Tinguianes (Funérailles d'un Tinguianès)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.7 x 10.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: fire
  • p5760

    p5760

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dance festival (Griechisches Tanzfest)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.3 x 10.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p5127

    p5127

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Capriol suite", ballet by Frederick Ashton, music by Peter Warlock
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1930
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0012

    p0012

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1564-1638)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flemish kirmess
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3275

    p3275

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Naked dancer with blue mirror, 02/01/1977
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on white paper
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.6 x 18.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 02/01/1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1052

    p1052

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with apple (La danseuse à la pomme)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze and marble
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 52 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Tanagra, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s2744

    s2744

    • ARTIST: G. Vallon
    • TITLE OF WORK: Universal Brother, in La Grande Passacaille by J.-S. Bach (Le frère universel, dans La Grande Passacaille de J.-S. Bach)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sanguine
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • s2332

    s2332

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Wooden soldiers"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1934
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p3146

    p3146

    • TITLE OF WORK: An early Cancan I
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • s1055

    s1055

    • ARTIST: Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Popular amusements in Paris. Ball at the barrier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 23.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • p7134

    p7134

    • ARTIST: P. Bollmar (drawing); G. Theuerlauf (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An automn festival in West Switzerland (Eine Herbstfeier in der Westschweiz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p0610

    p0610

    • TITLE OF WORK: Achter dance from Algäu. Schuplattler dancers of the Tegernsee (Achtertanz der Algäuer. Schuhplattler der Tegernseer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 16.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Allgau, Tegernsee
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Schuhplattler
  • p6511

    p6511

    • ARTIST: Charles Maurin (France, 1856-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1897
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7259

    p7259

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (France, 1734-1781) (design)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Russian games (Les jeux russiens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry, wool and silk
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 362 x 620 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3155

    s3155

    • ARTIST: André Louis Woldemar Alphée de Sinéty (France, 1791-1868)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dance - Ruins of Messina (Danse grecque - Ruines de Messine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0507

    s0507

    • ARTIST: Dietz Edzard (Germany, 1893-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet dressing room
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas laid down on board
    • DATE: 1945
    • DIMENSIONS: 66.5 x 99.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated '45
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s2433

    s2433

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancer "Köçek" in female dress dancing with clappers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: transvestite
  • s3600

    s3600

    • ARTIST: Sàndor Gergely (Hungary, 1888-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tàncolò nö)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "Gergely / 918"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p9825

    p9825

    • ARTIST: Filippo Indoni (Italy, 1800-1884)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants in the Roman Campagna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 108 x 163 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1877 at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: sickle
  • s2696

    s2696

    • ARTIST: George Heriot (U.K., 1759-1839)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Calumet dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1804
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1315

    s1315

    • ARTIST: Edmond Xavier Kapp (U.K., 1890-1978) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The new Bohemian. Miss Elsa Lanchester, who started the "Cave of harmony". Sje is an actress, a singer, and a dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1919

    s1919

    • TITLE OF WORK: The folly in fashion. The review of the Folies Bergère 1926-1927 (Josephine Baker) (La folie du jour. La revue des Folies Bergère 1926-1927 (Josephine Baker))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover
    • DATE: 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p6614

    p6614

    • TITLE OF WORK: The London Rifle Brigade ball at Guildhall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p9818

    p9818

    • ARTIST: Marc Chagall (Russia, 1887-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Daphnis and Chloë"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1961
    • DIMENSIONS: 44.5 x 34.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a set of 42 lithographs published originally by Tériade in Paris; reprinted in 1961
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2402

    p2402

    • ARTIST: Delphin Enjolras (France, 1865-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: L'étoile (The star)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3402

    p3402

    • ARTIST: Barthel Beham (Germany, 1502-1540)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant dance. Church festival of Mögeldorf
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1535
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2147

    p2147

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: George Skribine and a dancer in the ballet "Un coeur de diamant" (Heart of diamond)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1949
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2055

    s2055

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "At the seaside opposite" by Vassilis Rotas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p3308

    p3308

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance, four figures, white slip, red background
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on white paper
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.8 x 14.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p5646

    p5646

    • TITLE OF WORK: The court of the God of Love (La cour du dieu d'Amour)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, ivory
    • DATE: 1335
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Mirror valves
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s1872

    s1872

    • ARTIST: Ridgewell (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Hon. Cynthia Screamly stages a select "Coroboree" dance on Mitcham Common for film purposes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • p4782

    p4782

    • ARTIST: Johann Baptist Pflug (Germany, 1785-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cock's dance in Upper Swabia (Hahnentanz in Oberschwaben)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1839
    • DIMENSIONS: 44 x 57 cm
    • COMMENTS: The scene takes place in the marketplace of Tettnag. The couples turn while dancing under a glass of water - originally a cock. The men try to jump high enough to spill the water in the glass with his
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1153

    s1153

    • ARTIST: Edgar Bundy (U.K., 1862-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "He drew the bow over the strings..."
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 2.3 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin

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