Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3836

    s3836

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ancient Theatre, 23 juillet. Merce Cunningham Merce Company "Inventions", "Fabrications", "Cargo X" (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9944

    p9944

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Saint-John fires in Britanny (Les feux de la Saint-Jean en Bretagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1893
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: fire
  • p1696

    p1696

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer and two other Greek ladies
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6874

    p6874

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancer celebrates 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
  • p7352

    p7352

    • TITLE OF WORK: Arts libéraux. L'astrologie. Costume worn by Mademoiselle D'estrée in the ballet "Noces de Pélée et de Thétis".
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1653
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2373

    p2373

    • ARTIST: Sébastien Coeuré (France, 1778-18??) (drawing); Prud'hon (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Constance Gosselin as Anatole in "Fernand Cortès"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1817
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9002

    p9002

    • ARTIST: Georg Hom (Germany, 1838-1911) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mignon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 19.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s4240

    s4240

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Allard L'Olivier (Belgium, 1883-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: African dancers (Danseuses africaines)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 100 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s4079

    s4079

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing dervishes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.3 x 9.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Cairo
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, traditional, whirling, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5515

    p5515

    • ARTIST: John Schönberg (drawing); A. Forestier (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The royal marriage at Berlin: Torch-dance at the Royal Palace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 23.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p7354

    p7354

    • TITLE OF WORK: Trekarspolska. Uppland
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4628

    s4628

    • ARTIST: Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Russia, 1869-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for Anna Pavlova's costume as Columbine in the ballet "Arlekinade" by Fokine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, modern
  • s2195

    s2195

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Dancing in the dark"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • s2475

    s2475

    • ARTIST: Trinquer (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Wine Growers' Festival at Vevey. Silene, the Fauns and the Bacchants (La fête des vignerons à Vevey. Silène, les Faunes et les Bacchantes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.3 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Vevey
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4122

    s4122

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl with clappers and female aulos-plauer between two standing male figures
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 ck height x 23.4 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Black-figure skyphos vase found in a grave at Ritsona, Boeotia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: clappers
  • s3833

    s3833

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ancient Theatre, 23 juillet. Merce Cunningham Merce Company "Inventions", "Fabrications", "Cargo X". Régie son Cunningham
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p6818

    p6818

    • ARTIST: John Armstrong
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Façade" by Frederick Ashton
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1931
    • COMMENTS: Rambert Dance Company
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: decor
  • p8757

    p8757

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the Ridiculous". Entry of the herald and the drums ("Ballet des Ridicules". Entrée du héraut et des tambours)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1628
    • COMMENTS: The ballet was first presented on 12/01/1628
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3195

    p3195

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le moulin enchanté": Le Meunier Rêveur
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and China ink
    • DATE: 1949
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8345

    p8345

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball given by the prefect of the Seine at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France. U.K., Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p5162

    p5162

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer's day
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1945
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s1931

    s1931

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ondina", Margot Fonteyn, Royal Ballet, London
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1887

    s1887

    • ARTIST: Henri Zo (France, 1873-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Basque Country (Eskual-Herria - Le Pays Basque )
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: sticks, drum
  • p6572

    p6572

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller, or The dance (Loïe Fuller ou La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble, white
    • DATE: 1903
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1294

    s1294

    • ARTIST: Hookway Cowles (U.K., 1896-1987) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Where London dines
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.9 x 19.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, stage
  • p7481

    p7481

    • ARTIST: Torii Kiyomitsu (Japan, 1735-1785)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Segawa Kikunojo II dancing in the role of Yamauba
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1762
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p9382

    p9382

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Marie in the ballet "The island numph" (Mademoiselle Marie im Ballet "Die Eilandenymphe")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.9 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6918

    p6918

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie-Madeleine Guimard in the ballet "Les petits riens de Mozart et Noverre"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1778
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5526

    s5526

    • ARTIST: Marcel Vertes (Hungary, 1895-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rope dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49 x 40 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: rope dancing
  • s5902

    s5902

    • ARTIST: Evereides Potter ? (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl with krotala. Attic red-figured kylix vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figured kylix vase
    • DATE: -460
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: From Capua
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • p8589

    p8589

    • ARTIST: Valias Semertzidis (Greece, 1911-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pyrrhic dance (Pyrrichios choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and tempera
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 240 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Pontos, Black Sea, Turkey, Lazistan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s0909

    s0909

    • ARTIST: Laura Knight (U.K., 1877-1970) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Les sylphides", as seen from the stage itself
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.2 x 9.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Russian Ballet, exhibition of pictures by Miss Laura Knight at the Leicester Galleries, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8037

    p8037

    • ARTIST: Vaslav Nijinski (Russia, 1889-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Drawing (Dessin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and colored crayon
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
  • s5560

    s5560

    • ARTIST: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Netherlands, 1836-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dedication to Bacchus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 77.5 x 177.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Rome
  • p2488

    p2488

    • ARTIST: Marin (drawing); C. Motte (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Charles Mazurier in the role of Beterse of the ballet "La laitière suisse"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1823
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 17.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris, Théâtre de la Porte Saint Martin, 1823
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9148

    p9148

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La boutique fantasque": Roi de Pique
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "La boutique fantasque", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by G. Rossini, arranged by O. Respighi, choreography by L. Massine adapted from the ballet "La fée des poupées" de J.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6319

    p6319

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Carlotta Grisi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7586

    p7586

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lucile Grahn in the ballet "Sylphide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and ink wash
    • DATE: 1856
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9887

    p9887

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer (Danseuse cambodgienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
  • p4375

    p4375

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar in "Icare"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1951
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4712

    s4712

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dancer (Danseuse russe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.5 x 33.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2730

    s2730

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Macedonian national dances, no. 31
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 31
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Macedonia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p9399

    p9399

    • ARTIST: Daniel Vierge (Spain, 1851-1904) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Yedda", a ballet in three acts ("Yedda", ballet en trois actes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 30.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Yedda", ballet in three acts, by Philippe Gille, Arnold Mortier and L. Mérante. Music by Olivier Métra; presented at the Théâtre de l'Opéra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Japan
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8967

    p8967

    • TITLE OF WORK: Théâtre de la Gaîté. "Rip"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.9 x 26.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p9419

    p9419

    • ARTIST: Giacomo Mantegazza (Italy, 1853-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing odalisque
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 70 x 40 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed Milano
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Italy, Milan
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo, stage
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p6868

    p6868

    • ARTIST: Henri Zo (France, 1873-1933) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers (Deux danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 6.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • s2444

    s2444

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two male dancers "köçek" and a buffoon dancing in front of an imperial procession
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: procession
  • s2155

    s2155

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance at Paros
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Cyclades, Paros
  • s0811

    s0811

    • ARTIST: J. Godwin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harvest home
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.6 x 35.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6758

    p6758

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, plaster, gilt
    • DATE: 1868
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France

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