Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s5772

    s5772

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dwarf dancing (Naine dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 cm height
    • COMMENTS: From Greece, probably made in Attica
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: dwarf
  • p4446

    p4446

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Surprise
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p5740

    p5740

    • TITLE OF WORK: Apsara, celestial dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s2643

    s2643

    • ARTIST: Alphonse de Neuville (France, 1835-1885) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer of the court of Kamakoura (Danseuse de la cour de Kamakoura)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 7.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Japon"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, court, solo
    • KEYWORDS: fan
  • s2345

    s2345

    • TITLE OF WORK: Worriors' chorus dancing. Fêtes de Delphes, fondées par Angelos Sikelianos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1930
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: military, choral
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s0952

    s0952

    • TITLE OF WORK: India in London. Sketches at the Indian village at Portland Hall, Langham Place. Wind up of a nautch dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.6 x 9.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Tanjore
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
  • s3282

    s3282

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan study
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel
    • DATE: 1917
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • s4138

    s4138

    • TITLE OF WORK: Four females clad in white peplos dancing to the music of a female aulos-player. Black-figure Skyphos vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on clay vase
    • DATE: -495
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.2 x 14.2 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Found at Rhitsona, Boeotia. The white peplos garment signifies that these are young girls, perhaps in a rite of passage to maturity
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Boeotia, Thebes
  • p0916

    p0916

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Spain
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6122

    p6122

    • ARTIST: Jean-Pierre Norblin (France, 1745-1830)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Polonaise
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1785
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3725

    s3725

    • ARTIST: Giacomo Torelli (Italy, 1608-1678)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Comédie-ballet "Les fâcheux" by Molière. Set mounted in the open air in the park of the Château de Vaux in honour of Louis XIV
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and wash
    • DATE: 1661
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: This décor was the last one designed by Torelli for the court of France, since afterwards he fell in disgrace
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: set
  • s1513

    s1513

    • ARTIST: Vera Truman (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance, little lady
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: An impression of Mr. Noel Coward's revue "This year of grace". The dancers wore grotesque masks.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: mask, theater
  • s5737

    s5737

    • ARTIST: The Parrish Painter
    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr dancing. Red-figure Oenochoe vase (Satyre dansant. Oenochoé à figures rouges)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure oenochoe vase
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.3 cm height; 14.5 diam.
    • COMMENTS: From Capua, Campania, Southern Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: shield?
  • s3474

    s3474

    • ARTIST: Gàbor Keményffy (Hungary)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rudolf Nureyev Grand Prix
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, porcelain
    • DATE: 1997
    • COMMENTS: Designed and made at the Zsolnay Porcelain Factory of Pécs
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p1092

    p1092

    • ARTIST: Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The chord dancer (Der Seiltänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drypoint engraving
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 56 x 41.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a series of 10 engravings. Another of the same series is titled "Nigertanz"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: chord dance, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • s1928

    s1928

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Greek dances", Béjart Company, Liceo de Barcelona ("Danzas griegas", Compania Béjart, Liceo de Barcelona)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0093

    s0093

    • ARTIST: Richard Knötel (Germany, 1857-1914) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gavotte of the 18th century (Gavotte des 18. Jahrhunderts)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the winter ball of the students of the Berlin Academy of Arts
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: court, gavotte
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p9666

    p9666

    • ARTIST: Francis Picabia (France, 1879-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tabarin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on paper laid down on panel
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 105 x 75 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and titled
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p3235

    p3235

    • TITLE OF WORK: Head for the Kebekebe snake dance. Kuyu people
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood, painted
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 71 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Mother with two children, towered over by an elephant. Republic of Congo, between the Sangha and the upper Ogowe, on the river Kuyu, which flows into the Congo. In order to honor the mythical snake Eb
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Congo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7966

    p7966

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5512

    s5512

    • TITLE OF WORK: Front: Flutist playing for satyrs dancing. Back: Two satyrs carrying a woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure amphora vase
    • DATE: -540
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient Greece
    • DANCE FORM: couple
    • KEYWORDS: erotic
  • p7323

    p7323

    • ARTIST: Jeanne Mammen (Germany, 1890-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Revue girls
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1929
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 64 x 47 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5454

    s5454

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female acrobatric dancer shooting an arrow with her feet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, white figure on a vase
    • DATE: -325
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Gnathian Pelike Berlin F 3444, acquired in Naples in the middle of the 19th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece Ancient, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic, female
    • KEYWORDS: acrobatic, bow and arrow
  • p0897

    p0897

    • ARTIST: Michail Dobrov (Russia)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, solo, female
  • p0426

    p0426

    • ARTIST: Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (France, 1845-1902)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the scarf (La danse du foulard)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 x 100 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • s1577

    s1577

    • TITLE OF WORK: 25 new dances for piano "Let's dance" (25 danses nouvelles pour piano "Dansons")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical score cover, advertisement
  • p3737

    p3737

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant" (The sleeping princess): Page to the Fairy of the Singing Birds
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache, pencil, gold and silver on paper
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Piotr Tchaikovsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3624

    p3624

    • TITLE OF WORK: It`s a polka-mazurka, but it can be danced as waltz...
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka, mazurka, waltz
  • p8217

    p8217

    • ARTIST: Marc Chagall (Russia, 1887-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Frontcloth design for the ballet "Firebird"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1949
    • COMMENTS: First performed by the New York City Ballet at City Center, New York, on 29/11/1949
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p4222

    p4222

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing god
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ivory
    • DATE: -2000
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: The miniature must have served as amulet or as gift
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Turkey, Hettites,
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity
  • p3672

    p3672

    • ARTIST: A. Deroy & Valnay (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro ballet of the Montbouttous (Le ballet nègre chez les Montbouttous). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: "La Venus Noire", pièce en cinq actes et douze tableaux, de M. A. Belot
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p2286

    p2286

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Mongol emperor Akbar watching two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1580
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Illustration on a page from the "Akbar-nâma" showing the emperor Akbar entertained in the palace of Mâlwâ in 1590. The dancers in strange costumes are probably Portuguese from Goa.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, Moslem,
  • s4826

    s4826

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male ballet dancer in a solo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belarus
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p9309

    p9309

    • ARTIST: Paul Huet (France, 1803-1869)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The outskirts of Antibes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 98 x 164 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1855
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Antibes
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple
  • p8818

    p8818

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mdlle. Fanny Elssler dancing "The Saragossa"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.7 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Spain, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • p5678

    p5678

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Gypsy ball (Un bal de Bohémiens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3237

    s3237

    • ARTIST: Robert Jacob Hamerton (U.K., 1810?-1904) (drawing); Day & Hague (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An improvised evening in the kitchen of the Déry house in Pont-Rouge, around 1817 (Une soirée de danse improvisée dans la cuisine de la maison Déry à Pont-Rouge, vers 1817)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1841
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5461

    s5461

    • TITLE OF WORK: Feast in the court of Akbar (Freude im Hause Akbars)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gold on paper, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1592
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the Akber-Nama, a three-volume chronicle if the third Mogul leader, Akbar (1556-1605) a Mogul emperor.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Mogul
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1516

    p1516

    • ARTIST: François Gall (Hungary, 1912-1987)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The popular ball (Le bal populaire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p3267

    p3267

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Black beret dances Zeibekiko
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on grey canson paper
    • DATE: 1975
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 26.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: military, rebetiko
  • p0824

    p0824

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Reveillon chocolate (Le chocolat du Reveillon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5005

    s5005

    • ARTIST: Frederick Richard Pickersgill (U.K., 1820-1900)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6533

    p6533

    • ARTIST: H. Ragache
    • TITLE OF WORK: Entrance of a building designed after Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, stone
    • DATE: 1902
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p9254

    p9254

    • ARTIST: Charles Maurand (France, 1824-1904) (drawing); Morin, Ed. (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The sour herring. Extract from the book "Popular songs of France" (Le hareng saur. Extrait des chansons populaires de la France)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 14.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round, traditional
  • s5891

    s5891

    • TITLE OF WORK: Terracotta figure of a girl dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
    • DATE: -50
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Hellenistic, found in Myrina, Turkey
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Hellenistic
  • p2459

    p2459

    • ARTIST: L. Gasparini
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masters in the countryside (I padroni in campagna)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0528

    p0528

    • ARTIST: M. E. Béranger (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The day after the ball (Le lendemain du bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Salon of 1848
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s3997

    s3997

    • ARTIST: Victor Mitroshyn (Ukraine, 1995-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Inspiration. The portrait of Maya Plisetskaya
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, gilded bronze
    • DATE: 1995
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p7551

    p7551

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Zamacueca, a national dance (La zamacueca. Danza nacional)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Chile
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, zamacueca, popular, couple
  • s3152

    s3152

    • TITLE OF WORK: Laodamas and Alios dancing in front of Ulysses. Scene from the opera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Scene from an opera staged in Corfu
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Ionian Islands, Corfu, Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo

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