Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p8974

    p8974

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Balanda, or The rapt of Prosperina", a ballet by P. Taglioni ("Ballanda, oder der Raub der Prosperina", Ballet von P. Taglioni)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.5 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballet presented on 24/03/1855 at the Berlin Opernhaus
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3393

    p3393

    • ARTIST: Willem Gerard Hofker (Netherlands, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arja dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1943
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 28 cm
    • COMMENTS: Auctionned in Amsterdam on 17/04/1997, estimate 25,000-35,000 NLG
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Bali
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • p6827

    p6827

    • ARTIST: Spyros Vassiliou (Greece, 1902-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the program cover of the Greek Choreodrama Company
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 8.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7878

    p7878

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.7 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0641

    p0641

    • ARTIST: Josef Wilhelm Wallander (Sweden, 1821-1888)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ulla Windblad dancing a minuet (Ulla Windblad dansar menuett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 111 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: court, minuet
  • p7621

    p7621

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple, black man and white woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p9890

    p9890

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance at a dinner
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Romania
  • s4792

    s4792

    • ARTIST: Rodolfo B. Feleo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, the Rural suite: Tinikling
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, monochrome
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: folk
    • KEYWORDS: sticks
  • s5436

    s5436

    • ARTIST: Gustave Jean Jacquet (France, 1846-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance at Chateau de Kerdnel de Champagny
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: baroque
  • p1022

    p1022

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 130 x 90 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4527

    s4527

    • ARTIST: Yannis Moralis (Greece, 1916-2009)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes design for the choreodrama "Six popular images"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Six popular pictures" by the "Greek Choreodrama", Athens 1951. Music by Manos Hadjidakis, costumes and stage design by Yannis Moralis, choreography by Rallou Manou
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s2492

    s2492

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Infernal Cancan of the gods of Olympus. Bouffes Parisiens Theatre, "Orpheus in the underworld" (Cancan infernal des dieux d'Olympe. Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens,"Orphée aux enfers")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.4 x 35.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, France, Olympus
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballet, cancan
  • p7409

    p7409

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Apsara
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • s6106

    s6106

    • ARTIST: Nikostratos (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer from Myrina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine, terracotta
    • DATE: -120
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Aquired at Myrina in 1887. Dressed in long chiton and overcoat
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Ionia, Myrina
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: woman
  • s3102

    s3102

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Movement 2 (Mouvement 2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p6536

    p6536

    • ARTIST: Pruett Sharg
    • TITLE OF WORK: The serpentine dance (La danse serpentine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p6087

    p6087

    • TITLE OF WORK: The "samabhanga" (left) and the "baitha" (center) positions of Odissi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Folio from an illustrated manuscript of "Abhinaya Chandrika"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • p7044

    p7044

    • TITLE OF WORK: Voyage of lieutenant Cameron in Central Africa - The wedding dance at Kibaiyeli (Voyage du lieutenant Cameron dans l'Afrique Centrale - La danse nuptiale à Kibaiyeli)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.1 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Central Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0178

    p0178

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p4940

    p4940

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tangos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, book cover
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,
  • p2739

    p2739

    • ARTIST: Ramón Palmarola Romeu (Spain, 1877-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance (Danza espa?ola)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • p6253

    p6253

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of a dancer (Portrait d'une danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on linen
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 99.6 x 65.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1893
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8387

    p8387

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, in "The pas de tambourine and carving-knife", at the Lyceum Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the burlesque theater piece "Open sesame"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, comic, duo
  • s1537

    s1537

    • ARTIST: Marcelin Delechaux (France, 1821-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Chinese armed for war. The Savatcha, a national Chinese dance (Chinois armé en guerre. Le Savatcha, danse nationale chinoise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, France
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • p4721

    p4721

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance exercises, from the book by Carlo Blasis "L'art de danser"?
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: exercise
  • p1684

    p1684

    • ARTIST: Franz Ludwig Catel (Germany, 1778-1856)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tarantella in der Bucht von Bajae (Tarantella in the Bay of Bajae)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1823
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 101.5 x 139.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, tarantella, couple
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, castanets
  • p8036

    p8036

    • ARTIST: Joan Miró (Spain, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Jeux d'enfants"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1932
    • 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
  • p4570

    p4570

    • ARTIST: Daniel Chodowiecki (Poland, 1726-1801)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Human love in the common joy (Die Menschenliebe in der Mitfreude)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1769
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.4 x 11.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bauern tanzen vor Reisenden (Peasants dance in front of travellers). From the book by Basedow, J.B. "Elementarwerk", Leipzig 1774.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3498

    p3498

    • ARTIST: Capuletti
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vicente Escudero
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • p4260

    p4260

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers (Danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72.4 x 73 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1412

    p1412

    • ARTIST: Louis-François Cassas (France, 1756-1827)
    • TITLE OF WORK: View of the Acropolis and the Olympion in Athens (Vue du l'Acropole et de l'Olympien à Athènes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8590

    p8590

    • ARTIST: Valias Semertzidis (Greece, 1911-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and tempera
    • DATE: 1973
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 70 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p9587

    p9587

    • ARTIST: Georges Braque (France, 1882-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les fâcheux": A Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les fâcheux", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, Paris, 1924. Music by G. Auric; story by B. Kochno, from the comedy-ballet of Molière; choreography by B. Nijinska; décors and costumes by Georg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9424

    p9424

    • ARTIST: Alexander Rothaug (Germany, 1870-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the mountain nymphs (Der Tanz der Bergnymphen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 90.5 x 107 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Austria,
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p6124

    p6124

    • ARTIST: Micha? Stachowicz (Poland, 1768-1825)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harvest celebration
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1821
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • p3514

    p3514

    • ARTIST: Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (Germany, 1870-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina as Columbine in "Carnaval"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5086

    s5086

    • ARTIST: Abacaral Delgado
    • TITLE OF WORK: Royal Theater, Russian dances (Teatro real, Bailes rusos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • s2916

    s2916

    • TITLE OF WORK: The burlesque dance (La danse burlesque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, theatrical, stage, round, circle
  • p1884

    p1884

    • ARTIST: José Domínguez Bécquer (Spain, 1805-1841)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The bolero (El bolero)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance, bolero
  • p2562

    p2562

    • ARTIST: C. Goeffroy (painting and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito in the ballet "Le violon du diable"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 12.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5925

    s5925

    • TITLE OF WORK: Seven figures holding each other's shoulders forming a dance circle (ceremonial?). Bronze
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine, bronze
    • DATE: -850
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found in Olympia, probably from an Eleian workshop
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Geometric
    • DANCE FORM: closed circle
  • p8780

    p8780

    • ARTIST: A. von Rössler (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchus's group at the masked ball of the royal ballet corps in Kroll's Establishment at Berlin (Bacchusgruppe auf dem Maskenball des königl. Balletcorps in Kroll's Etablissement zu Berlin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.7 x 23.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany, Berlin,
    • KEYWORDS: mask, disguise
  • s3911

    s3911

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sacharoff / v. Derp
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From an unidentified newspaper
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
  • s5366

    s5366

    • ARTIST: Sir William Russell Flint (U.K., 1880-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zaronga
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: 38 x 52 in
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, solo
  • p9810

    p9810

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (France, 1796-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Italian dance at Frascati - after Michalon (Danse italienne à Frascati - after Michalon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1824
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 85 x 115 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Frascati, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s5444

    s5444

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler dancing "Cachucha"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ceramic, porcelain
    • DATE: 1938
    • COMMENTS: From a lithograph dated 1840
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s1824

    s1824

    • TITLE OF WORK: Basse danse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on wood
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: basse danse, court, traditional, round
  • p8402

    p8402

    • TITLE OF WORK: In the harem (Im Harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Orient, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional
  • p5559

    p5559

    • TITLE OF WORK: First steps of the galliard
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s0964

    s0964

    • ARTIST: Reginald Thomas Cleaver (1870-1954) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Jack and the beanstalk" at Drury Lane Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.2 x 21.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: popular, stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater

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