Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p2224

    p2224

    • ARTIST: Hans Ruckers the Elder (Flanders, 1545?-1598)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Musical party. Detail.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on wood
    • DATE: 1581
    • COMMENTS: Lid painting on double virginal, made in Antwerp
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Flanders, France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p9287

    p9287

    • ARTIST: Marevna or Marie Vorobieff (Russia, 1892-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the rabbis at Hanukkah
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvasboard
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 125 x 175 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p9327

    p9327

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Phalanx dance by Mazamboni's warriors
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration selected from Mr. H. M. Stanley's new book, "In darkest Africa"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Uganda, East Africa, Kenya
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s1585

    s1585

    • 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: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • COMMENTS: "The rake's progress", ballet by the Sadler's Wells Company, Sadler's Wells Theatre, 05/1935. Scenery and costumes by Rex Whistler
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4369

    p4369

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Priest, in the ballet "Zoroastre"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9422

    p9422

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The cymbal player (Le joueur de cymbales)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, gold
    • DATE: 1960
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.7 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed, numbered and stamped. Cast in 1967.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s0623

    s0623

    • ARTIST: August Lentz (Germany, 1827-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from Spain. At the Feria of Reinosa: The Jota Aragonesa dance (Bilder aus Spanien. Auf der Feria von Reinosa: Tanz der Jota aragonesa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 24.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Reinosa, Aragon
    • DANCE FORM: Jota aragonesa, traditional, Spanish
    • KEYWORDS: guitar, violin, flute
  • p4708

    p4708

    • ARTIST: Marc Chagall (Russia, 1887-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer (Danseuse espagnole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance ?
  • p1736

    p1736

    • ARTIST: Alexander Alekseev (Russia, 1901-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le roseau" by the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pencil and watercolor
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.5 x 31.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Le roseau" (The flute) is a ballet based on a Persian story. Music by Daniel Lazarus, sets and costumes by Alexandr Alekseev from Persian miniatures, choreography by Jean Börlin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5555

    p5555

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1580
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4025

    p4025

    • ARTIST: Edmond van Saanen Algi (Romania, 1882-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 16.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9473

    p9473

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les noces"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: "Les noces", choreographic scenes with songs, in four scenes. Music and story by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by B. Nijinska; decors and costumes by Natalia Goncharova
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p0926

    p0926

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers seated (Deux danseuses assises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 40 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1205

    s1205

    • TITLE OF WORK: The coffee house of the Moors on the Italians' Boulevard (Le café des Mauresques sur le boulevard des Italiens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, stage, solo, Oriental
  • s5708

    s5708

    • TITLE OF WORK: Foot of candelabrum. Satyr and dancing maenads. Roman Empire
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -50
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: maenad
  • p9089

    p9089

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer examining her right foot (Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed, numbered and stamped
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p6176

    p6176

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0910

    s0910

    • ARTIST: Laura Knight (U.K., 1877-1970) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Le carnaval", before the raising of the curtain
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.2 x 11.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Russian Ballet, exhibition of pictures by Miss Laura Knight at the Leicester Galleries, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3420

    s3420

    • TITLE OF WORK: Men dancing a wild dance, on a laconic hydria
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, hydria vase
    • DATE: -555
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 cm height
    • COMMENTS: The men depicted are apparently comastes, that is revellers dancing the comos dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Laconia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, komos
  • p1411

    p1411

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer - Mary Wigman School (Tänzerin - Mary-Wigman-Schule)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black chalk
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.5 x 31.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s0245

    s0245

    • ARTIST: H. Albrecht (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The popular theatrical play in Schlier Lake in the Bavarian highlands: a scene from "Hunter's blood" (Das Volksschauspiel zu Schliersee im bairischen Hochlande: eine Scene aus "Jägerblut")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.9 x 30.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Upper Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple, Scuhplattler
  • p8545

    p8545

    • TITLE OF WORK: Grand gathering of the Highland clans - The Farquharson children dancing a reel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, reel, folk
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5520

    p5520

    • ARTIST: Richard Caton Woodville (U.K., 1856-1927) (drawing); Mosses, W. I. (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Albanian war-dance in the camp near Dulcigno, during the feast of the Ramazan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.9 cm x 21.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Albania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2361

    p2361

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at the foyer (Danseuses au foyer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 40 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5126

    s5126

    • ARTIST: Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japan, 1769-1825)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Kabuki actors Nakamura Utaemon III and Nakamura Akashi performing the dance Sanbaso
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1812
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: duo, male, theatrical
    • KEYWORDS: theatre, objects
  • p4376

    p4376

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in "Schéhérazade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2100

    p2100

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bronislava Nijinska
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 x 33.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3421

    p3421

    • TITLE OF WORK: Court dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the English Chronicle of Jean de Waurin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., England, Burgundy
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s0186

    s0186

    • ARTIST: Franz von Defregger (Germany, 1835-1921) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The corner dance (Der Winkeltanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.7 x 49.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: Winkeltanz, traditional, couple
  • s3671

    s3671

    • ARTIST: Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9914

    p9914

    • ARTIST: Ettore Ascenzi (Italy, 18??-19??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The monk's dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor heightened with white
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 52.5 x 75 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed "Roma" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s5882

    s5882

    • TITLE OF WORK: Medallion containing two figures, dancers or musicians. Nine-sided stand
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver, brass
    • DATE: 1260
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.3 cm height; 16 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Stand. Nine-sided stand (for a bowl?). Each side has a medallion containing two figures, dancers or musicians, with arabesque interlace around it. The shoulder has racing animals. Made of cast brass,
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
  • p2149

    p2149

    • TITLE OF WORK: Virgins, older men and younger, with drums and dances...
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Athos
  • s3328

    s3328

    • ARTIST: Théodore Rivière (France, 1857-1912) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.4 x 16.5 x 11.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed by the founder's sign "A. Rudier, Paris"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: light, veils, drapery
  • s2448

    s2448

    • TITLE OF WORK: A sultan watching a Mevlevi dervish and a "köçek" boy dancer, dancing to separate orchestras
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5104

    p5104

    • ARTIST: Réné Gruau (Italy, 1909-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lido, cabaret-restaurant, Champs-Elysées, Paris. Prestige
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1957
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p3418

    p3418

    • TITLE OF WORK: Knights' company in a circular dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from the song "Remède de fortune" by Machault (Paris frç. 1586, f 51)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p3265

    p3265

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in life and theater (detail, right)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1968
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5873

    p5873

    • ARTIST: Grant Short Bull (U.S.A., 1851?-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sun dance of the Dakotas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1930
    • COMMENTS: Painted by Short Bull, chief of the Dakota, Oglala and Sioux Indians
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Native Americans, Indians
  • p5116

    p5116

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A queen of the Wilis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0539

    p0539

    • ARTIST: Penelope Painter (Greece, active around 440 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance teacher with lyra, pupil
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on red figure vase
    • DATE: -445
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Cup said to come from Nola, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p5575

    p5575

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Tonga Islanders before Queen Tiné (Tanz von Tonga-Insulanerinnen vor der Königin Tiné)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Tonga
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3787

    s3787

    • TITLE OF WORK: Basque types. Stick dance (Types basques. Danse de bâtons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: sticks
  • p4545

    p4545

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La création du monde": Monkey
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8788

    p8788

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival Monday in the Artists' Association of Düsseldorf Malkasten (Faschingmontag im düsseldorfer Künstlerverein Malkasten)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.3 x 42.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Düsseldorf
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • s5264

    s5264

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two men drinking
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brown ink on paper, pen and feather
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.9 (21.3) x 16.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: drinking, male
  • p0581

    p0581

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, India ink
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • s4221

    s4221

    • ARTIST: Alfredo Bortoluzzi (Germany, 1905-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Indian dances (Indische Tänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, India
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p7477

    p7477

    • ARTIST: Roméo Dumoulin (Belgium, 1883-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The village festival (La fête au village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 121 x 121 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9572

    p9572

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from the mission station in Kribi, southern Cameroun. Dance of the natives (Bilder von der Missionsstation Kribi im südlichen Camerun. Tanz der Eingeborenen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.3 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cameroun, West Africa, Germany, Kribi
    • DANCE FORM: traditional

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