Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p2050

    p2050

    • ARTIST: Nicos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas (Greece, 1906-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The cursed serpent"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1951
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3489

    s3489

    • TITLE OF WORK: Félicité Hullin-Sor as Cinderella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Moscow
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p2064

    p2064

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p1571

    p1571

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in red dress (Tänzerin mit roten Kleid)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink and watercolor
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 28.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s3749

    s3749

    • ARTIST: Frederick Richard Pickersgill (U.K., 1820-1900)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • p9085

    p9085

    • ARTIST: Prosper Marilhat (France, 1811-1847)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An Arab dancing in the street
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1840
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 45.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1840
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, France, Maghreb,
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo, traditional
  • p7174

    p7174

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mary Ann Lee as Beatrix in the ballet "La jolie fille de Gand"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6241

    p6241

    • ARTIST: A. Sh.
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan. Caricature
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s0331

    s0331

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm August Stryowski (Poland, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gypsies on the beach
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 63 x 96 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1899
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Gypsy, violin
  • p0660

    p0660

    • ARTIST: Gaston Vuillier (France, 1845-1915) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Zucchi, first dancer of the Eden Theater, in the role of Sieba (Mlle Zucchi - rôle de Siéba - première danseuse de l'Eden-Théâtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0325

    p0325

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance foyer at the Opéra (Foyer de la danse à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 46 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0442

    s0442

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance and rhythm (Danse et rythme)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 20.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Danse et rythme"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s2694

    s2694

    • ARTIST: Henri Avelot (France, 1873-1935) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kolo dance (Danse de kolo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4 x 11.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Pago
    • DANCE FORM: kolo, traditional, round
  • p6692

    p6692

    • ARTIST: Georg Hoffer (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The popular festival in Salzburg (Das Volksfest in Salzburg)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: celebration
  • s1069

    s1069

    • TITLE OF WORK: A village play a few days after the occupation of Mingin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: The fighting in Upper Burma - with the Chindwin River expedition
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma, Mingin
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p8016

    p8016

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancers at the Exotic Theater (Danseuses espagnoles au Théâtre Exotique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.9 x 15.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1900
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, Spanish dance
  • p5588

    p5588

    • ARTIST: Ken Mattas
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curving of a legato phrase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1996
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia
  • p4973

    p4973

    • ARTIST: Julio Castellanos (Mexico, 1905-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Don Domingo de Don Blas"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1942
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, in 1942; choreography and argument by Leonide Massine and Luis Felipe Obreg?n, music by Sivestre Revueltas, sets and costumes by Jul
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s1984

    s1984

    • TITLE OF WORK: Give the arm to turn (Dar os Braços para voltar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Portugal
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, court, couple
  • p6724

    p6724

    • TITLE OF WORK: The fair of Tantah: The belly dance (La foire de Tantah: La danse du ventre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
  • s0806

    s0806

    • ARTIST: Sydney Prior Hall (U.K., 1842-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the Great North-West with the Marquis of Lorne. A buffalo dance at Fort Qu'Appelle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.2 x 22.7
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada, U.K., U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, male
    • KEYWORDS: nude, weapon, animal
  • s0229

    s0229

    • ARTIST: Ernst Mossbach (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from Bolivia: Festival of the Cholos and Indians in Chacarilla (Bilder aus Bolivia: Grubenfest der Cholos und Indianer in Chacarilla)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 23.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bolivia, Chacarilla
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise, arm, sword
  • p5112

    p5112

    • ARTIST: Folco
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a dancer in the Lido cabaret, Paris.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5519

    s5519

    • ARTIST: Jean-Gabriel Domergue (France, 1889-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: French Cancan dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: cancan
    • KEYWORDS: cabaret
  • p3681

    p3681

    • ARTIST: Charles-Félx Gir (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Monsieur Peretti, appointed "sujet" at an arabesque
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Monsieur Peretti, classé "sujet", esquissant une "arabesque"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2945

    p2945

    • ARTIST: Mariani (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the emancipated negroes (Danse des nègres affranchis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 15.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2502

    s2502

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shamanic dance of tobacco (La danse chamanique du tabac)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1592
    • COMMENTS: Compare with image S2502
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: therapy
  • p7691

    p7691

    • ARTIST: Jacques Stella (France, 1596-1657) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball for the ladies of Venice, on board the "Caledonia" (Bal donné aux dames de Venise, à bord de la "Calédonia", par l'amiral Clarence Paget, commandant l'escale anglaise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Italy, Venice
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: military, navy
  • s4581

    s4581

    • ARTIST: Giovanni-Battista Belzoni (1778-1823) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Beduin dance in the Western desert (Danse bédouine dans le Désert occidental)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1819
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: knife
  • s1915

    s1915

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Guerrero (Rosario Guerrero)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1903
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 136 x 91.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poster of the Kunstanstalt Arnold Weylandt, Berlin, before 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo, Spanish dance?
  • s1393

    s1393

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mademoiselle Taglioni, in "La sylphide" (Mademoiselle Taglioni, dans "La sylphide")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6785

    p6785

    • ARTIST: Umbertos Argyros (Greece, 1884-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Choreftria)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 55 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cabaret
  • p3627

    p3627

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The fairy doll" (Die Puppenfee): Negro Doll
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, watercolor and pencil heightened with white on paper
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.1 x 26 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Josef Bayer
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9935

    p9935

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bernard (France, 1866-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple (Couple dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, patina
    • DATE: 1926
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 78.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and numbered. A small version exists.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p0886

    p0886

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers seated (Deux danseuses assises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 40 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, Monte Carlo
  • p6035

    p6035

    • ARTIST: Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing nude (Tänzelnder Akt)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1916
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 37.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
  • p6930

    p6930

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni with castanets
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8182

    p8182

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne". The Sevillana's partner (2)
    • 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
  • p7972

    p7972

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein in "Schéhérazade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0553

    p0553

    • ARTIST: Daniel Rabel (France, 1578-1637)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Entry of the Esperducattes. "Ballet of the fairies of the Saint Germain woods" ("Ballet des fées des forests de Saint-Germain". Entrée des Esperlucattes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1625
    • COMMENTS: The Esperducattes are thieves (espère-ducats). They appear masked, as all ballet dancers of that period, and their costume evokes pieces of money.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s5415

    s5415

    • ARTIST: Karl Hagenauer (Austria, 1898-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker with two globes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s5559

    s5559

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maiden dancing with krotala in front of goddesses. Krater drinking vessel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, white-figure vase
    • DATE: -475
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • s5437

    s5437

    • ARTIST: Bartolomeo Pinelli (Italy, 1781-1835)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Return to Rome of the harvesters after wine harvesting
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, color
    • DATE: 1815
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3358

    s3358

    • TITLE OF WORK: Classical Khmer dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional, classical
  • s2046

    s2046

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "The festival at Kakava" by Costis Palamas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p3036

    p3036

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s5771

    s5771

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pan and maenad dancing. Bronze mirror box (Pan et ménade dansant. Miroir à boîte. Troisième quart du 4e siècle avant J.-C.)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze mirror
    • DATE: -335
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: Made in Corinth, found in Nemea, Greece. Les deux figures de l'applique, particulièrement découpée, dansent sur un sol matérialisé par une large bande piquetée. Le dieu Pan, appuyé sur le lagobolon, s
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Corinth
    • KEYWORDS: deity, Pan, maenad
  • p3826

    p3826

    • TITLE OF WORK: West side story
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1960
    • COMMENTS: Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris. Music by Leonard Bernstein, choreography by Jerome Robbins
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p3244

    p3244

    • ARTIST: Jean-Denis Malclès (France, 1912-2002)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1693

    p1693

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jean Börlin in "Les vierges folles", from the 1923 Ballets Suédois program
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: Ballet `Les vierges folles" by the "Ballets Suédois". Ballet pantomime by Kurt Atterberg and Einar Nerman. Music based on Swedish melodies, by Kurt Atterberg. Sets and costumes by Einar Nerman. Choreo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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