Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4658

    s4658

    • TITLE OF WORK: Castanets and figure of dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1893
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found near the pyramids of Illahun, at the entrance to the Fayum, 1889-1890, by W.M. Flinders Petrie
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt
  • s0756

    s0756

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sultan of Sooloo's court dancers in the Javanese village
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: International Exhibition, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, France, Paris, Indonesia, Sooloo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, female, court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s3087

    s3087

    • ARTIST: Serge Lifar (Ukraine, 1905-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of the 18th century (Danseuse du 18e)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p5990

    p5990

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Looking at the star (En regardant l'étoile)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and pastel on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6876

    p6876

    • TITLE OF WORK: Frenzied dancers cavort on a bridge, during rite of spring
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, screen
    • DATE: 1614
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Momoyama period. From two six-panel screens, about 7 meters long, called "Activities in the capital (Kyoto)"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0684

    s0684

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Such a collection of relatives we had for a dance that evening - oh, how old-fashioned he must have thought us.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 25.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for a short story
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • p2966

    p2966

    • ARTIST: Paul Rey
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Verein für das Deutchtum im Ausland, Volksliderkarte Nr. 21, Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child,
  • p5193

    p5193

    • ARTIST: Ingrid Schaar (Germany, 1937-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alain Bernard 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1982
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: jazz
  • s1979

    s1979

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "The marriage of Figaro", act 4: The dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink heightened with gouache
    • DATE: 1964
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: couples, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4741

    s4741

    • ARTIST: Max Wislicenus (Poland, 1861-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Indian design (Indianisches Motiv)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: From a triptych presented at the Deutsche Werkbund Asstellung in Cologne, 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, America
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: snake, birds
  • s4929

    s4929

    • ARTIST: Paul Landowski (France, 1875-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Cire perdue by A. Gatti and monogram
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p4709

    p4709

    • ARTIST: Erasmus Grasser (Germany, 1450?-1515?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Moorish dancer (Moriskentänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1480
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, morris
  • s1594

    s1594

    • ARTIST: Paul Sérusier (France, 1864-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Britanny (Danse en Bretagne (?))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0944

    s0944

    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular, couple
  • p4461

    p4461

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Violence
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p8186

    p8186

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": An Old Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Le tricorne"; first performed at the Alhambra Theatre, London, on 22/07/1919. Distribution: Léonide Massine (The miller), Tamara Karsavina (The miller's wife), Léon Woizikowsky (The corregidor
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3238

    p3238

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance mask of the Marka people
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood with brass and iron stripes
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 cm high
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Guinea, Marka
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Marka
  • s4931

    s4931

    • ARTIST: Marcel Bouraine (France, 1886-1948)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with shield (Danseuse au bouclier)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze chryselephantine
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 46.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, weapon,
  • p0983

    p0983

    • ARTIST: Maurice de Vlaminck (France, 1876-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer of the "Dead Rat" (La danseuse du Rat Mort)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 180 x 90 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Rat Mort was a restaurant on the Plache Blanche in Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • s0659

    s0659

    • TITLE OF WORK: Montagu House
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.4 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • s0759

    s0759

    • ARTIST: Charles Edwin Fripp (U.K., 1854-1906) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Soudanese marriage dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 46.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, male
    • KEYWORDS: wedding
  • s4257

    s4257

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère cabaret. Acrobatic numbers, ballets, pantomimes, operettas (Folies-Bergère. Travaux de voltige, ballets, pantomimes, opérettes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color poster
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 58 x 84 cm
    • COMMENTS: Imp. J. Cheret, 18 rue Brunel, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p8679

    p8679

    • ARTIST: William Hatherell (U.K., 1855-1928) (drawing); G. P. Jacomb-Hood (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Great State Ball after the Durbar at Delhi: The set of State Lancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: A ball given on 06/01/1903 in Dewan-i-Am
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p3271

    p3271

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the "Sailor dancing Zeibekiko"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on white paper
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 14.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p8002

    p8002

    • ARTIST: Friedrich Paul Thumann (Germany, 1834-1908) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At Lake Comer (Am Comersee)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: music, child
  • p3087

    p3087

    • TITLE OF WORK: An early waltz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin
  • s5064

    s5064

    • ARTIST: Amadeo Preziosi (Malta, 1816-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two Egyptian dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mixed technique on paper
    • DATE: 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Cairo,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, duo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, darbouka
  • p8296

    p8296

    • TITLE OF WORK: Series of caricatures on the ballet "La péri", as danced by Carlotta Grisi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • COMMENTS: A parody of the ballet by Théophile Gautier, danced by Carlotta Grisi who just returned from her voyage to London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p2951

    p2951

    • TITLE OF WORK: Comastes - Dancers of the Comos dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: After an ancient Greek vase
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • s0210

    s0210

    • ARTIST: Carl von Häberlin or Carl Haeberlin (Germany, 1870-1954) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The festival in Amsterdam: Popular entertainment in the New Market (Die Kirmes in Amsterdam: Volksbelustigung auf dem Nieuwe Markt)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Amsterdam
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2959

    p2959

    • ARTIST: Maria Or?owska-Gabry? (Poland, 1925-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Krakowiak, dance by the Mazowsze ensemble
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: folk, cracowiak
  • s3574

    s3574

    • ARTIST: Miklòs Izsò (Hungary, 1831-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing peasant, No. 12
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1867
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
  • s5883

    s5883

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of a dancer; single-page painting mounted on album folio
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, paper
    • DATE: 1842
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.3 x 11.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Portrait of a dancer; single-page painting mounted on album folio. A dancer with raised arms wears a transparent pink blouse which stops short of her bright orange skirt and reveals her breasts and be
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s1964

    s1964

    • ARTIST: Michel Rosset (France, 1951-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sagitarius, Omega, Terpsichore, Thought (Le sagitaire, Omega, Terpsychore, La pensée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1998
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the IXème Biennale dels pintors i escultors de la dansa. Barcelona, 03/02/1999.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2603

    p2603

    • ARTIST: Boucher
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chinese dance (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1740
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, China
  • p4751

    p4751

    • TITLE OF WORK: Alpine circular dance (Alpiner Reigen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • COMMENTS: Joseph Gungl (1810-1889) was "K. K. Oesterr. Kapellmeister und Königliche Preussische Musik-Director"; he dedicated his book to the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, an admirer of folk life.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s4759

    s4759

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Leinweber (Germany, 1836-1908)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p8432

    p8432

    • ARTIST: Leo Rauth (Germany, 1884-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing song (Dansing song)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1927
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p6145

    p6145

    • ARTIST: Georges Wakhévitch (Ukraine, 1907-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le joueur de flute"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1962
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Presented in Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1609

    p1609

    • ARTIST: Gino Severini (Italy, 1883-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Miss Merven of the music-hall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 76 x 56 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s5435

    s5435

    • ARTIST: Serge Ivanoff (Russia, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Le menuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1937
    • DANCE FORM: minuet
  • s3471

    s3471

    • TITLE OF WORK: A hilltop view of Rome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 36.2 x 47 cm
    • COMMENTS: Italian school of the 19th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: dance, duo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p2550

    p2550

    • ARTIST: V. Battistelli (drawing) after a print by John Brandard
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lucile Grahn in the Pas Stratégique of the ballet "Catarina ou La fille du bandit"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 27.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1846. Lithographed by P. Battistelli, Rome.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7803

    p7803

    • TITLE OF WORK: Beius
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1952
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 8.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p9045

    p9045

    • ARTIST: Knut Ekwall (Sweden, 1843-1912) (drawing); Effenberger, H. (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Visit of the German Kaiser to Milan: The court ball in the Caryatides' Hall of the royal palace on 21 October
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.1 x 49.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Italy, Milano
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p2852

    p2852

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: M. Michalopoulou as Medea and chorus in the ballet "Medea"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1984
    • COMMENTS: Music by S. Barber, choreography by Ralou Manou, Greek ChoreodramaCompany. Epidaurus Theater, 08/09/1984.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0494

    s0494

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The restaurant where one can dance (Le restaurant ou l'on danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 47.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p3703

    p3703

    • ARTIST: Albert Chazelle (France, 19??-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lotus flower. Ball of the Moulin Rouge, Paris (Fleur de Lotus. Bal du Moulin Rouge, Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Postcard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p3044

    p3044

    • ARTIST: Ernesto Valls Sanmartin (Spain, 1891-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan during a rehearsal in Buenos Aires
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1916
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France, Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3638

    s3638

    • ARTIST: Johann Georg Puschner (Germany, 1680-1749)
    • TITLE OF WORK: This figure… joy of the dance (Diese figur... vergnügen der Tantz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1716
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, music score

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