Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s1333

    s1333

    • ARTIST: F. Sutter (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From the costumed quadrille at the staff festival on the 23rd of Janyary (Aus der costümirten Quadrille beim Mannschaftsfest am 23. Januar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 24.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustrations for an article on the jubilee of the 4th Grand Duke's Hessian Infantry Regiment Nr. 118 in Mainz
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Mainz
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p9463

    p9463

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant": La Fée du Sorbier (The Sorb Fairy)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1587

    p1587

    • ARTIST: Giacomo Balla (Italy, 1871-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serpentine dance - Reconstruction of 1968
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wire
    • DATE: 1921
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 cm high
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, serpentine
  • p4355

    p4355

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The butterfly", act 2, scene 2 ("Le papillon", act 2, scene 2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3117

    p3117

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito as Fatma The Gypsy in the ballet "La fille de marbre", by Arthur Saint-Léon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1847
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7326

    p7326

    • ARTIST: Alfred Choubrac (France, 1853-1902)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caroline Otéro (La Belle Otero)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: Otero
  • p3217

    p3217

    • ARTIST: Maurice Charpentier-Mio (France, 1881-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina and Massine in "Carnaval"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, plaquette, bronze, brown patina
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 29 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev. Signed and dated 1920, monogrammed CMio
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3684

    p3684

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kurdish soldiers, after the victory, dancing national dances - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 15.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Geek-Turkish war in Thessaly, near Larissa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Turkey, Kurdistan
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s0795

    s0795

    • ARTIST: Reginald Thomas Cleaver (1870-1954) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The German Emperor's visit: The state ball at Buckingham Palace - The royal quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 12.8
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, ballroom, couple, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p5506

    p5506

    • ARTIST: Gabriel Puig y Roda (Spain, 1865-1919) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet ladies (Damen vom Ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.3 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2489

    s2489

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A religious dance by the negroesof Homotchl - Cult of the moon (Danse religieuse des nègres du Homotchl - Culte à la lune)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.1 x 34.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the book "Voyage au Soudan Oriental" by M. Trémaux
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p9077

    p9077

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "Le coq d'or"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery, curtain
  • s1808

    s1808

    • ARTIST: Charles Payzant (Canada, 1898-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The American Dancer" magazine cover, 11/1927
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage
    • KEYWORDS: nude, female
  • p3867

    p3867

    • ARTIST: Pedro Figari (Uruguay, 1861-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1922
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Dance scene around 1870, probably in Uruguay
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Uruguay
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5372

    p5372

    • TITLE OF WORK: How can you become a dance teacher (Hocasiz dans nasil ögrenilir)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p2454

    p2454

    • ARTIST: August Macke (Germany, 1887-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pierrot with dance couple (Pierrot mit Tänzerpaar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 102 x 72.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s4361

    s4361

    • ARTIST: John Duncan Fergusson (U.K., 1874-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Miss Margeret Morris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Margaret Morris (1891-1980), pioneer of modern dance and Ancient Greek Dance revival
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1477

    s1477

    • ARTIST: Ricardo Marin (Spain, 1874-1942) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Some figures by Antonia Argentina in an Andalusian tango, left and right, and a Cuban rumba, center
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1933
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: tango, stage, solo, rumba, Spanish dance
  • p5018

    p5018

    • ARTIST: Antonio López Mancera (Mexico, 1924-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La llorona" (The weeping woman)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1961
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, 1961. Ballet de Bellas Artes, choreography by Ana Merida, music by Carlos Jiménez Mabarak.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5545

    p5545

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the West Point cadets
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1859
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s5762

    s5762

    • TITLE OF WORK: Palestra and dance scenes. Fragment of funerary cippus (Fragment de cippe funéraire. Scènes de palestre et de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, fetid stone
    • DATE: -470
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 45 cm
    • COMMENTS: Made in Chiusi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
  • p8114

    p8114

    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding of Boccaccio Adimari and Lisa Ricasoli
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Painting of the Florentine school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Florence
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: wedding
  • s2667

    s2667

    • ARTIST: Maurice de Lambert (France, 1873-1952) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The seasons 1: Spring (Les saisons 1: Le printemps)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9725

    p9725

    • ARTIST: Rafael Benjumea (Spain, 1825-1887)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A fiesta
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 64.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed twice, dated "1850" and inscribed "Madrid"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s3640

    s3640

    • ARTIST: Honoré Daumier (France, 1808-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dramatic sketches. - To think that in my time I was too a brillant Spanish dancer… (Croquis dramatiques. - Dire que dans mon temps, moi aussi, j'ai été une brillante Espagnole...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, caricature
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, variety, folk, solo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: Spanish, castanets,
  • p3473

    p3473

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1905
    • COMMENTS: From Gordon Craig's sketchbook
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p8649

    p8649

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta model
    • DATE: 1869
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p4837

    p4837

    • TITLE OF WORK: A negro festival drawn from nature in the Island of St. Vincent
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1819
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: St. Vincent, West Indies
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3999

    s3999

    • ARTIST: José García Ramos (Spain, 1852-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bulerias
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1884
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, popular, solo
  • p9384

    p9384

    • ARTIST: Joan Miró (Spain, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Jeux d'enfants"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mixed medium on cardboard
    • DATE: 1932
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 77 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Jeux d'enfants", ballet; scenario by Boris Kochno, music by Georges Bizet, choreography by Massine, decor and costumes by Joan Mir?. First performed by the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo at the Casino
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Monaco, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery, decor
  • p8216

    p8216

    • ARTIST: Sir Cecil Beaton (U.K., 1904-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Apparitions", scene 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1936
    • COMMENTS: First performed by the Vic-Wells Ballet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 11/02/1936
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p3143

    p3143

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Marie-Madeleine Guimard
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3416

    p3416

    • TITLE OF WORK: King David, two musicians and two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Opening illustration of the "Psalterium aureum" of St. Gallen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p7800

    p7800

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hanske van Leuven in Flanders
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1953
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.7 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s0277

    s0277

    • ARTIST: Ernest Clair-Guyot (France, 1886?-1938) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A fandango danced by Miss Amalia Molina, at the "baile de candil", candle dance (Fandango dansé par Mlle Amalia Molina, au "baile de candil", bal des chandelles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.6 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: The "Goyescas" of the Spanish composer Granados, at the Opera. Décor of the 2nd act by Zuloaga
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: fandango, stage, solo, ballet
  • p3492

    p3492

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Roland Petit
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1962
    • DIMENSIONS: 63 x 46 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s5298

    s5298

    • ARTIST: A. A. Kondurov (Russia)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Modern Ballet Theatre Boris Eifman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1985
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s1664

    s1664

    • ARTIST: Louis Auguste de Sainson (France, 1800-1887) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nautch, a Hindu dance (Natche, danse hindoue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 13.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument
  • p0797

    p0797

    • TITLE OF WORK: T.D. Rice on stage at the Bowery Theater in New York
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1833
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
  • s2729

    s2729

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Macedonian national dances, no. 30
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 30
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Macedonia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s4029

    s4029

    • ARTIST: Giulio Gioia (Italy, 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance. Havana 2003 (La danza. Havana 2003)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2003
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Cuba
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4029

    p4029

    • ARTIST: Fritz Reiz (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From the folk costume festival of Baden in Freiburg im Breisgau (Vom badischen Volkstrachtenfest zu Freiburg im Breisgau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 16.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Baden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s3347

    s3347

    • ARTIST: Charles-Louis Müller (France, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse )
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, sandstone, statuette
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 32 x 10.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by the dances of Loïe Fuller and Greek Tanagra statuettes. Marked "C. Muller / 409 / J P Mougin"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: drapery, veil
  • p9056

    p9056

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers at rest (Deux danseuses au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44.5 x 54 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0550

    s0550

    • ARTIST: Paul Destez (France, 1851-1919) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The disaster of the Comic Opera: The public fleeing (La catastrophe de l'Opéra-Comique: La fuite du public)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.3 x 22.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: A scene from the fire in the Opéra Comique dance theater in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • KEYWORDS: fire, accident
  • p7204

    p7204

    • TITLE OF WORK: Grand masonic ball at the Rotundo, Dublin, in honour of the marriage of the Prince of Wales
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.7 x 34.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p0862

    p0862

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • s1517

    s1517

    • ARTIST: Vera Truman (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grecian at all costs. The pseudo-classicism of the Empire Period
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: A quartette of "period" dances. From minuet to knee-knocking: an historical fantasy in ballroom attitudes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p9718

    p9718

    • ARTIST: Alberto Saccardi (Italy, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rose dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, alabaster
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 82.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Italy,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental ?
    • KEYWORDS: flower, rose
  • p9845

    p9845

    • ARTIST: Tommaso Borgonio (Italy, 1620-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The tobacco ballet" ("Il tabacco baletto", Skinki and Artisoschi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • COMMENTS: "Il tabacco balletto", alle dame l' ultimo giorno di Carnevale, primo di Marzo, mille sei cento cinquanta. Ballato in Torino (A ballet presented in Turin on 01/03/1650, last day of Carnival). The Toba
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Torino, Turin, Venezuela
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo

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