Dance History Gallery

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  • p2721

    p2721

    • ARTIST: Paul Gerhart Vowe (Germany, 1874-1937)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Abendreigen (Round dances in the evening)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: allegory
  • p9919

    p9919

    • ARTIST: David Hardy (U.K., 1837-1870)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 38 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "1862" at lower center
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5021

    p5021

    • ARTIST: Antonio López Mancera (Mexico, 1924-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Speed crazy"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1963
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, 1962. Ballet Concierto de México, for its 10th anniversary. Ballet Cl?sico de México, music arranged by Chucho Zarzosa, argument by C
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s3320

    s3320

    • ARTIST: Victor Prouvé (France, 1858-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The girl-flower (La fille-fleur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, porcelain
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.6 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Produced by Mougin Frères. Inspired by Loïe Fuller. See his preparatory drawing. Signed "V. Prouvé" and stamped "Mougin"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • s5285

    s5285

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance at Douala (Tanz in Duala)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the German colonies in Africa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cameroon, Douala, Africa, German colonies
    • DANCE FORM: male, traditional
  • s3403

    s3403

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste A.-H. Hilaire or Hilair (France, 1753-1822)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Turkish feast (Fête turque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and wash
    • DATE: 1782
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: See also the print after this drawing: p0708
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p8685

    p8685

    • ARTIST: Frédéric de Haenen (Netherlads, 1853-1928) (drawing); F. W. Airey (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A sheet and pillow-case dance at Yokohama
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.3 x 30.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: At the house of an English lady in Yokohama, Japan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Japan
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s0545

    s0545

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Souvenir of the Ballets Russes 1909 season (Souvenir de la saison des Ballets Russes, 1909)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern, ballet
  • s2023

    s2023

    • ARTIST: Bernhard Wosien (Germany, 1908-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caucasian dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Caucasus, Germany
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, accordion
  • p5471

    p5471

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, color
    • DATE: -550
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2338

    s2338

    • TITLE OF WORK: Copy of part of the dance on a High Tang mural
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Mural at Cavern No. 180 in the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3427

    s3427

    • ARTIST: M. Dudovica
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drawing, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina, France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: tango, couple, ballroom
  • s5853

    s5853

    • ARTIST: Dinos Painter (Greece, circa -350 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing maenad in chiton, coat and hair cap. Attic red-figure krater vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure krater vase
    • DATE: -415
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.5 cm; 38.3 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: In der Mitte nackter Silen, bekränzt nach rechts ausschreitend, die Rechte erhoben, den linken Arm nach der rechtshin eilenden, umblickenden Mänade ausstreckend. Links tanzende Mänade in Chiton, Mante
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • p5114

    p5114

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lido, Champs-Elysées, Paris. Cocorico
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1981
    • COMMENTS: La fête des fêtes de Réné Fraday et Donn Arden, mise en scène de Donn Arden. Avec les Bluebell Girls.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2885

    p2885

    • ARTIST: Ferenc Pataky (Hungary, 1850-1910)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chain chain dance ("Lànc-lànc-eszterlànc"-hoz.)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1933
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s1023

    s1023

    • ARTIST: Reginald Thomas Cleaver (1870-1954) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The latest thing in strikes: the revolt of the pavement ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s1493

    s1493

    • ARTIST: Henry Cheffer (France, 1880-1957) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances of Gouadeloupe (Danses de la Gouadeloupe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le songe des jours d'été" by Pierre Paraf.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Antilles, West Indies, Guadeloupe
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3544

    p3544

    • ARTIST: Maurice Denis (France, 1870-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches after Isadora Duncan (Croquis d'après Isadora Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 19.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s4198

    s4198

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sleep dancer (Schlaftänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: sleep, solo
  • s2110

    s2110

    • ARTIST: Jean Dulac (France, 1902-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mikhail Fokine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • p3537

    p3537

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sitting dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, ivory and marble
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Romania
  • p4175

    p4175

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The reinforced-concrete step (Le pas du ciment armé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.3 x 17.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: The sketch is a caricature of Auguste Perret, of the Brothers Perret, the contractors who built the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, decorated by Bourdelle
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p6804

    p6804

    • TITLE OF WORK: Final scene from "Le ballet de la délivrance de Renaud". Grand ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1617
    • COMMENTS: The "grand ballet final" is lead by the king (Louis XIII, then 16 years old)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p4801

    p4801

    • ARTIST: Kasatschinsky & De Paldo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tatarskaja Swadba
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: In the 19th century, after the fashion for Kosack dances (Kosatschek) appeared an interest for the adaptation of Tatar dances to ballroom style.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Tatar
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Tatar,
  • s3392

    s3392

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Tunisia, Greece, Roman
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p8200

    p8200

    • ARTIST: André Dutertre (France, 1753-1842) (painting); Janinet (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie-Madeleine Guimard as Mélide in "Le premier navigateur"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1057

    p1057

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Jack in the box"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1926
    • COMMENTS: "Jack in the box", suite by the Ballets Russes on music by E. Satie orchestrated by D. Milaud; choreography by G. Balanchine, sets and costumes by A. Derain
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s3611

    s3611

    • ARTIST: Milein Cosman (Germany, 1921-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ram Gopal and his Hindu Dancers and Musicians. Vaudeville Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drawing, sketch, program cover
    • DATE: 1939
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional, folk
  • p2184

    p2184

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: End of the lesson (Fin de leçon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p1194

    p1194

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hungarian dance (Ungarischer Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 38 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Hungary
  • p4590

    p4590

    • ARTIST: Lucas Mayer
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flag dance in Nürnberg (Fahnentanz in Nürnberg)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, colored
    • DATE: 1592
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.4 x 45.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a series of 24 woodcuts showing the different figures. In Nürnberg, flag dancing began in the 17th century.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flag
  • p8075

    p8075

    • ARTIST: Jean Gast
    • TITLE OF WORK: Le Train Bleu at the Ballets Russes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p1915

    p1915

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • p9074

    p9074

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le coq d'or": An Old Man
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p2573

    p2573

    • ARTIST: John Brandard (U.K., 1812-1863) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mazurka, as danced in the Grand Opera "Pietro il Grande" by Mademoiselle Elena Andreianova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Covent Garden, London, 1852 revival. Music cover
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, mazurka
  • p7476

    p7476

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Madou (Belgium, 1796-1877)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The minstrel (Le ménétrier)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 13.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1619

    p1619

    • ARTIST: Joseph-Marius Avy (France, 1871-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The white ball (Le bal blanc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1903
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p8975

    p8975

    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustrated Calender Polka by Anton Wallerstein (Illustrirte-Kalender-Polka, von Anton Wallerstein)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.2 x 23.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration of a musical score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka
    • KEYWORDS: music, score
  • s4655

    s4655

    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz (La valse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, monochrome
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Série 335. Raphael Tuck et Fils Editeurs, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • s4928

    s4928

    • ARTIST: Juarez Machado (Brazil, 1941-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango art déco
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 2002
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 73 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, piano
  • s3377

    s3377

    • TITLE OF WORK: King David dancing naked
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -150
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: An object probably used at the Tabernacle festival in Egypt
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Ancient,
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, Jewish
  • p1122

    p1122

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Blanquita Suarez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1917
    • DIMENSIONS: 73.3 x 47 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Barcelona
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p8978

    p8978

    • TITLE OF WORK: The square before the palace of the Great Mogul of Delhi (Der Platz von dem Palast des Grossmoguls zu Delhi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.2 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • p5098

    p5098

    • ARTIST: C. Wilhelm or William John Charles Pitcher (U.K., 1858-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Malvina Cavallazzi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: As Edmond Dantes in "Montechristo", Empire Theatre, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p9186

    p9186

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russain dancer (Danseuse russe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 38 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and stamped with the atelier mark on the reverse
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, solo
  • s4453

    s4453

    • ARTIST: Bernt Notke (Germany, 1435?-1509)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Reva death dance in the Nicolas church (Der Revaler Totentanz der Nikolaikirche)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mixed technique on canvas
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 163 x 750 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
    • KEYWORDS: priest, religion, macabre
  • s1992

    s1992

    • ARTIST: Lucien Fontanarosa (France, 1912-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer seated, thoughtful (Danseuse assise, pensive)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel, postcard
    • DATE: 1957
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 52 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2591

    s2591

    • ARTIST: George Catlin (U.S.A., 1796-1872) (sketch); Neuville, A. de (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Painting of the actors of the buffalo dance (Peinture des acteurs de la danse des Bisons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Escursions parmi les tribus Indiens des bassins de la Colombia et du Haut-Missouri" after G. Catlin, 1832
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Missouri
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8898

    p8898

    • ARTIST: Victor Dollel
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi as Giselle and Lucien Petipa as Albert in act 2 of the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4786

    p4786

    • ARTIST: Aleksander Lauréus (Finland, 1783-1823)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant dance in Finland
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1816
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 67.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional

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