Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3977

    s3977

    • ARTIST: Jacques Gestalder (France, 1918-2006)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wilfride Piollet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7404

    p7404

    • ARTIST: Polychronis Lebessis (Greek, 1848-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Choreftria)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 115 x 71 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p7557

    p7557

    • ARTIST: Nathaniel Sichel (Germany, 1843-1907)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fatima
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1892
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo, Oriental
  • s3766

    s3766

    • ARTIST: Yannis Chapsis (Greeece, 1925-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Karpathos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1986
    • COMMENTS: Mr. Yannis Chapsis is a folk painter in the village Othos, Karpathos
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Dodecanese, Karpathos, Othos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s1287

    s1287

    • ARTIST: Joseph Cormier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harmonie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1931
    • COMMENTS: Paris Salon, 1931
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, lyre, music, tambourine,
  • s3283

    s3283

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan study
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1916
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • s0780

    s0780

    • ARTIST: Randolph Caldecott (U.K., 1846-1886) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Old Christmas by Washington Irving. Oxonian dancing with his aunt
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, mixed
  • s1338

    s1338

    • ARTIST: Henriot (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance microbe (Le microbe de la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s2568

    s2568

    • ARTIST: Balliol Salmon (U.K., 1868-1953) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: After the horrors of war, the pleasures of peace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 48 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dances for the entertainment of the wounded, at the Bedford Social Club
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0675

    p0675

    • ARTIST: August Lentz (Germany, 1827-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jota Aragonesa at the Feria of Reinosa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Aragon
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, jota
    • KEYWORDS: village
  • p1886

    p1886

    • ARTIST: Georgius Houfnaglius or Joris Hoefnagel (Flanders, 1542-1600)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Cadiz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s3643

    s3643

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Kainer (Germany, 1885-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the Ballets Russes "Carnaval" - Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p1780

    p1780

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing maenads
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 70
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Rome, Tunisia
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p7654

    p7654

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer with basket (?) on her head
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta figurine
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p3462

    p3462

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p1975

    p1975

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Margot Fonteyn in the ballet "Apparitions"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0958

    s0958

    • ARTIST: Frederic Villiers (U.K., 1851-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: With Lord Dufferin in Burma. A Burmese pas seul
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma
    • DANCE FORM: stage, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: musicians
  • s1941

    s1941

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Corsario", Peter Schaufuss, Danish Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sanguine
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0982

    s0982

    • TITLE OF WORK: Arab dance in the harem (Arabischer Tanz in der Harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Arab, Maghreb
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7070

    p7070

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cracovienne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1794
    • COMMENTS: National Theater, Warsaw
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1903

    p1903

    • ARTIST: Antonio Chamán (Spain, 1830-1860)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Candle dance (Baile de candil)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • s3663

    s3663

    • ARTIST: Charles Amédée de Noé or Cham (France, 1818-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Faithful image of the masked ball in the Opera House ("Image fidèle du bal masqué de l'Opéra")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, vignette
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s1432

    s1432

    • ARTIST: Edouard Zier (France, 1856-1924) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of Mesopotamia and musicians at Saint-Jean-d'Acre (Danseur de Mésopotamie et musiciennes à Saint-Jean-d'Acre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1852
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article in "Le tour du monde"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Syria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: child, cymbals, ud, tambourine
  • s2356

    s2356

    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian folk print depicting a gentleman dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1372

    s1372

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Die aristokratische Wohlthätigkeitsvorstellung im Palais Schwarzenberg zu Wien. Das Brautpaar aus "Wiener Walzer"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 10.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: waltz, ballroom, couple
  • s0470

    s0470

    • ARTIST: Pieter Lastman (Netherlands, 1583-1633) (follower of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Orpheus charming the animals and a group of maidens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.5 x 62.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
  • p3014

    p3014

    • ARTIST: Joseph Paget-Fredericks (U.S.A., 1903-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Prelude and death of Isolde: Isadora Duncan (Prélude et mort d'Iseult: Isadora Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1927
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2496

    p2496

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lacauchie (drawing); J. Rigo (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mademoiselle Nathalie Fitz-James
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4269

    p4269

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on stage (Danseuses sur la scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1889
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 76 x 82 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9827

    p9827

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Joseph-Célestin François (Flanders, 1759-1851)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the artist's studio
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1829
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 55.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1829
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s3398

    s3398

    • ARTIST: George Stathopoulos (Greece, 1944-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Song of Spring
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, on paper
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 133 cm
    • COMMENTS: 195 copies
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: music, harp
  • p8169

    p8169

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": The Corregidor
    • 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
  • p3218

    p3218

    • ARTIST: Pierre de Boulongne (France)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova in "La mort du cygne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, brown patina
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5871

    s5871

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young man balancing a vase on the sole of his foot. Red-figure rhyton vase in the form of a horse's head
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure rhyton, vase
    • DATE: -480
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Two dancing men and a young double aulos flutist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: vase
  • p6323

    p6323

    • ARTIST: Henri de Montaut (France, 1825-1897) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flower castle (Chateau des fleurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The dance hall "Château des Fleurs" was on the Rue Bassano, in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4464

    s4464

    • ARTIST: Salomon van Rusting (Netherlands, 1652-1709?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The chimney stage of death or Death Dance (Het Schootoneel des Doots of Dooden Dans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1707
    • COMMENTS: A Dutch adaptation from the original made by Holbein
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Netherlands
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
  • p3803

    p3803

    • ARTIST: Vadym Meller (Russia, 1884-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bronislava Nijinska in the ballet "Mephisto valse"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 43.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Kiev
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1504

    p1504

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: From the performance given by the "Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo" in Mexico
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico, France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s0670

    s0670

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches of life at Malta. Carnival time: Mummers going through the ceremony of burial without coffin.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Malta
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise, death
  • p1262

    p1262

    • ARTIST: William Simpson (U.K., 1823-1899) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek Easter festival in the Troad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, colored by hand
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration of an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Turkey, Troad
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • p4139

    p4139

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance couple and musicians with harmonica in the village Batuan in South Bali
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bali, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple, couple
  • s2035

    s2035

    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's ball (Bal d'enfants)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre du Gymnase Dramatique, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p5161

    p5161

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Toumanova in the ballet "Symphonie fantastique"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2933

    s2933

    • TITLE OF WORK: La Corrante Espagnole dance (La Corrante Espagnole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1643
    • COMMENTS: Print published on the occasion of the fall of Perpignan, as a parody of the victory of France over Spain
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple, courrante
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s2710

    s2710

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Croatian national dances, no. 7
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 7
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s2302

    s2302

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Floor show"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p4613

    p4613

    • ARTIST: Johan Fredrik Martin (Sweden, 1755-1816)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant dance with violin in Smaland, Southeast Sweden
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint
    • DATE: 1795
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2619

    s2619

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Los panaderos, dance of Sevilla (Los panaderos, danse de Séville)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.1 x 7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Gustave Doré and Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Sevilla
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, panaderos, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • s1615

    s1615

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Notre Dame de Paris": Esmeralda (danced by Claire Motte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1965
    • COMMENTS: "Notre Dame de Paris", ballet. Ballets Roland Petit, Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1184

    s1184

    • ARTIST: Howard K. Elcock (U.K., 19??-19??) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Irene Castle at the Embassy Club
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.3 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The latest step to be introduced is known as the "toddle". It comes to us from America, and is a nice example of what may be termed adaptive movement. To the observer it has the effect of an exhausted
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, stage

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