Dance History Gallery

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  • p9348

    p9348

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le dieu bleu": Porteur d'objets pour sacrifice (Sacrificial bearer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache heightened with gold paint over pencil
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Le dieu bleu", ballet. Choreography by Fokine, music by Reynaldo Hahn, libretto by Jean Cocteau, costumes and decor by Leon Bakst. First performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Chat
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7398

    p7398

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Zambelli and Mr Staats in "Namouna" (Mlle Zambelli et M. Staats dans "Namouna")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4563

    s4563

    • ARTIST: Réné Gruau (Italy, 1909-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketch (Esquisse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black China ink
    • DATE: 1982
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s5594

    s5594

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figurine of a Pygmy dance leader
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ivory, statuette
    • DATE: -1900
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 2.9 width; 2.4 diam.
    • COMMENTS: Egyptians believed the pygmies possessed divine qualities and called their performances "dances of the gods." A young Egyptian woman named Hepy was given an automaton consisting of a board with pygmy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p3105

    p3105

    • TITLE OF WORK: Antoine Paul as Zéphyr in "Zéphyr inconstant"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1798
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0936

    p0936

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer, after Isadora Duncan (Danseuse, d'après Isadora Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, plaster study
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: After a drawing of Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9585

    p9585

    • ARTIST: Georges Braque (France, 1882-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les fâcheux"
    • 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: scenery
  • s5398

    s5398

    • ARTIST: Edward Burra (U.K., 1905-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Izzy Orts
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1955
    • DIMENSIONS: 74 x 100 cm
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: navy, sailors
  • p7711

    p7711

    • TITLE OF WORK: Indian dance - Pueblo tribe (Danse indienne - tribu des Pueblos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Kansas State
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • s1350

    s1350

    • ARTIST: Henriot (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: I hear they will have us dance with bare legs… ("Il est question de nous faire danser jambes nues...")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, stage
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, off-stage
  • p6950

    p6950

    • ARTIST: Jean Le Pautre (France, 1618-1682)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female opera dancer as a bacchante
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1675
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5041

    s5041

    • ARTIST: Jacques Surun (France, 1967-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carmen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • p8893

    p8893

    • TITLE OF WORK: Calotta Grisi and Jules Perrot dancing the Valse Saxonne in the ballet "Zingaro"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo, waltz
  • s0185

    s0185

    • ARTIST: Werner Zehme (Germany, 1859-?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance amusement in an entertainment haus of Hasenheide near Berlin (Tanzbelustigung in einem Vergnügungslokal der Hasenheide bei Berlin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s1354

    s1354

    • TITLE OF WORK: Church festival (Kirchweih)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 14.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from a poetry book by Konrad Dreher
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Upper Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s2994

    s2994

    • ARTIST: Jean-Jacques Gailliard (Belgium, 1890-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers Anna, Lisa and Margo Duncan (Les danseuses Anna, Lisa and Margo Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9932

    p9932

    • ARTIST: Gaston La Touche or de La Touche (France, 1854-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The masked ball (Le bal masqué)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 48 cm
    • COMMENTS: Initialed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: mask, disguise
  • p5293

    p5293

    • ARTIST: Sven Erixson (Sweden, 1899-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Melodies at the Square (Melodier vid torget)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, carton
    • DATE: 1937
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 127.5 x 187 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3516

    s3516

    • ARTIST: Jean Toth (France, 1899-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Escudero in "Seguidilla"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1954
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional
  • s4617

    s4617

    • ARTIST: Kamenidi
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kementse player and grandfather watching a boy dancing a Pontic dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Used as decoration for a conference program, with a couplet in Greek
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Pontos, Black Sea, Turkey, Lazistan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folklore, solo
    • KEYWORDS: fire, music, kementse, fireplace
  • p4651

    p4651

    • ARTIST: Claude Gillot (France, 1673-1722) (drawing); François Joullain (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Man and woman of quality in ball dress (Homme et femme de qualité, en habit de bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1675
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p3454

    p3454

    • ARTIST: Ruth Rieves
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan. Les funérailles
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Ruth Rieves" at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9319

    p9319

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants merrymaking outside an inn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1660
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bearing the Teniers monogram. One of a pair of paintings of the same size.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p4864

    p4864

    • ARTIST: Edward Cucuel (U.S.A., 1875-1954) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Minuet (Menuett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, minuet
  • p1416

    p1416

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers (Tänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, India ink, watercolor
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 20.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s3226

    s3226

    • TITLE OF WORK: … they executed according to the customs of the country various dances with figures…
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from "A thousand and one nights" in German
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
  • p0563

    p0563

    • ARTIST: Levasseur
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "L'anneau magique"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1832
    • COMMENTS: Amalia Brugnoli and Paolo Samengo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8670

    p8670

    • TITLE OF WORK: Revolt of the Sioux Indians in North America. The Spirits' Dance by the Ogallala Sioux at "Pine Ridge Agency", territory of Dakota
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: The revolt of the Sioux Indians, in North America. The dance of the Spirits by the Ogallala Sioux at "Pine Ridge Agency", territory of Dakota
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Native Americans, Indians
  • p0376

    p0376

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Before entering the stage (Avant l'entrée en scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on paper laid down on canvas
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.6 x 62.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9650

    p9650

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (France, 1714-1789)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A military camp (Un campement militaire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1747
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed. One of a pair of paintings, the other being "Jeunes paysannes se baignant"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s4043

    s4043

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two men dancing (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on black figure vase
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • s6021

    s6021

    • ARTIST: Antiphon Painter (Greece, active ca. 500-475 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Red-Figure Kylix: Standing Youth Holding a Walking Stick and Bowl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figured kylix vase
    • DATE: -480
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p5377

    p5377

    • ARTIST: Josep Maria Sert i Badia (Spain, 1874-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les astuces féminines" by the Ballets Russes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • COMMENTS: "Astuzie femminili"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8695

    p8695

    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas pantomimes and burlesques. Haymarket
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 16.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2663

    p2663

    • ARTIST: Johann Conrad Seekatz (Germany, 1719-1768)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Church festival in Gross-Gerau (Kirchweih in Gross-Gerau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1755
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The young Goethe is shown in the right hand corner.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: peasant
  • p2804

    p2804

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Nutcracker"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1963
    • COMMENTS: Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky, choreography by N. Kirsanova and E. Tsoukala, ballet of the Greek National Lyric Scene. Athens, National Lyric Scene, 09/01/1963.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Russia, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0087

    s0087

    • ARTIST: Carl Huth (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Hungarian czardas (Der hungarische Czardas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.4 x 23.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple, czardas
  • s3863

    s3863

    • ARTIST: Marianne von Werefkin (Russia, 1860-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff dancing 5
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p5705

    p5705

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vintage dance. Two men pressing grapes by dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Terracotta shingle ornament, found in Myrina, Asia Minor, Turkey
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy, Rome, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s0010

    s0010

    • ARTIST: Fonderia Gusmano Vignali (Italy, active circa 1910-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancing boy holding bunches of grapes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, dark brown patina
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 70 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed "F A F G. Vignali Firenze
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: nude, child
  • s3163

    s3163

    • ARTIST: Irene Tachataki (Greece, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cretan dancing on a table
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Crete, Heraklion
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: table
  • s4454

    s4454

    • ARTIST: Christian Gottfried Donatius (Germany, 1783-1790) & Ludewig Suhl (Germany, 1753-1819)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The death dance after a 320 year old painting in Saint Mary church of Lübeck (Der Todtentanz nach einem 320 Jahre alten Gemaehlde in der St. Marienkirche zu Lübeck)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper
    • DATE: 1783
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.4 x 32.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: A series of 8 copper prints glued together
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
  • s1736

    s1736

    • ARTIST: Natacha Raous (Russia, 1975-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Bella figura"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1996
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: "Bella figura" ballet choreographed by Jiri Kylian
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • s1481

    s1481

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The reconstitution of the Tertre Square in Montmartre, with its old houses, its planted plot with trees, and its sidewalks full of tables
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1933
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.3 x 33.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le nouveau décor des nuits parisiennes" by Robert de Beauplan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p3318

    p3318

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dancer with garland, rose background, 8 May 79
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on white paper
    • DATE: 1979
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.8 x 24.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 08/05/1979
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p1450

    p1450

    • ARTIST: Symeon Savvidis (Turkey/Greece, 1859-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Merry go round (Gyro-gyro oloi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2280

    s2280

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Lagos-Dahomey frontier question: A native dance in the disputed hinterland district
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print from a photograph
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 31.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Nigeria, Lagos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1985

    s1985

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Gaetano Gioja
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • p6946

    p6946

    • ARTIST: Bruno Paul (Germany, 1874-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: King Leopold II with dancer Cléo de Mérode
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p3451

    p3451

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan

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