Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6157

    p6157

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Thoinot Arbeau
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0080

    p0080

    • ARTIST: David Vinckboons (Netherlands, 1576-1632?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kirmes dance. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1608
    • DIMENSIONS: 115 x 141 cm
    • COMMENTS: In the middle is the old city hall of Oudenaarde
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2098

    s2098

    • TITLE OF WORK: German dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: No. 2987
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, folk
  • s6002

    s6002

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fragment of a plaque with relief of dancing Nymphs 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • s5106

    s5106

    • ARTIST: Gaillard (lithography)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Slav wedding. Russian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: folk, duo, couple
  • p9095

    p9095

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pas-de-deux B
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Executed circa 1810-1911; cast in a later date. Signed, numbered and stamped with the foundry mark. Height excluding base.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p6023

    p6023

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Petrouchka" - Leonide Massine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6659

    p6659

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caryathis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1920
    • COMMENTS: The dancer Caryathis (Élisabeth Toulemont or Elise Jouhandeau was her real name) in the ballet "La belle excentrique" on music by Eric Satie. She danced it only one evening, as she was classed "nude d
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p1382

    p1382

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance - Barnes, final proposal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.7 x 37.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p3199

    p3199

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Le spectre de la rose"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut on silk, heightened, with collage of colored papers
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 18.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7457

    p7457

    • TITLE OF WORK: Buffalo Ranch Real Wild West. The real Indian war dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Buffalo Bill
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, U.S.A., U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: circus
  • p1274

    p1274

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The carnival (Le carnaval)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Alicia Markova, Simon Simenoff, Roland Guerard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5447

    p5447

    • ARTIST: Pierre Rameau (France, 1674-1748) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The king's grand ball (Le grand bal du roi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1725
    • COMMENTS: A couple is shown in two different phases of the dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s6036

    s6036

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer at an altar, probably the Persian dance oklasma
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine, terracotta
    • DATE: -390
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 cm height
    • COMMENTS: From a graveyard at Thermi, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Persia
  • s0610

    s0610

    • TITLE OF WORK: With the Russians in Asia. Circassians dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the Russo-Turkish War
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Caucasus, Georgia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s1807

    s1807

    • ARTIST: Charles Payzant (Canada, 1898-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The American Dancer" magazine cover, 12/1927
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, trio
  • p6060

    p6060

    • TITLE OF WORK: The weapon dance of the Bakony swineherds
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, wood
    • DATE: 1888
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Carving on the lid of a wooden box containing a shaving mirror, belonging to a shepherd.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7504

    p7504

    • ARTIST: Majeska
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4000

    p4000

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet of Robert the Devil (Ballet de Robert le Diable)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 76.6 x 81.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Degas". Lemoisne catalog number 391.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7588

    p7588

    • ARTIST: Edvard Lehmann (Denmark, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carl Fredstrup, Caroline Fjelsted-Kellermann, August Bournonville, Andreas Füssel, Adolf Stranboe (from left to right) in the ballet "The toreador"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1847
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by August Bournonville
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • s5834

    s5834

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1564-1638)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A village festival with a theatrical performance and a procession in honour of St. Hubert and St. Anthony (detail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1625
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 118.1 x 158.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Netherlands, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round, circle
  • p5539

    p5539

    • TITLE OF WORK: Waltzers and waltzing. The Mall, Kensington
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s0539

    s0539

    • TITLE OF WORK: In the vortex of the dance! (Nel vortice della danza!)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, military
  • p2253

    p2253

    • ARTIST: Lawreince (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance school (Ecole de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p8944

    p8944

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "Petrouchka"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, India ink and pen on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p2676

    p2676

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer in profile to the left (Danseuse cambodgienne de profil vers la gauche)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil, watercolor, gouache and crayon gras
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.6 x 24.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
  • s3620

    s3620

    • ARTIST: Jacques Callot (France, 1592-1635)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Devils' dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1617
    • COMMENTS: From the Comedia dellarte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p0599

    p0599

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Léonide Massine and Lydia Lopokova during a rehearsal of the ballet "La boutique fantasque"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0562

    s0562

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Artists' Ball in Berlin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.4 x 49.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s1005

    s1005

    • ARTIST: Paul Hey (Germany, 1867-1952) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The artists' carnival in the Münchener Kindl Keller at Munich
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.6 x 20.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: In front of the Sphinx and the Egyptian Temple, some ghosts are playing the accompaniment to the performance of an Oriental dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Germany, Munich,
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s4685

    s4685

    • ARTIST: Georges Leroux (France, 1877-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Carmagnole. Bar des Noctambules, Quartier Latin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard from a painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: tree, politics, revolution
  • p2700

    p2700

    • ARTIST: Talgé ?
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer at Hué
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Laos
  • s3917

    s3917

    • ARTIST: Philippe Petit
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexandre Sakharoff (Alexander Sacharoff) in "Golliwog's Cake Walk"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color ink and tempera
    • DATE: 1922
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p7298

    p7298

    • ARTIST: Leslie Hurry (U.K., 1909-1978)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Hamlet": Ophelia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1942
    • COMMENTS: "Hamlet", ballet in one scene by Robert Helpmannn to music by Tchaikovsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2268

    s2268

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gertrud Leistikow in "Furientanz" (Furies' Dance) - 4
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s2708

    s2708

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Croatian national dances, no. 5
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 5
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p4641

    p4641

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s1996

    s1996

    • ARTIST: Paul Troubetzkoy (Italy, 1866-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan: dancer with right leg lifted (Isadora Duncan: danseuse, jambe droite relevée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, black patina
    • DATE: 1935
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 34 x 11.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: On the base "Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1935"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: nude, Isadora Duncan, solo
  • p6042

    p6042

    • TITLE OF WORK: Burmese musicians and dancers (Musiciens et danceurs birmans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma, India, Rangoon
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5017

    s5017

    • ARTIST: Franz Seraph Haindl (Germany, 1865-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Landed gentlemen dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72 x 103 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p7399

    p7399

    • ARTIST: Marius Jean Antoni Mercié (France, 1845-1916) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Bourrée dance (La bourrée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 9.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk, traditional, bourrée
  • s2550

    s2550

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The salon of Mr de Lesseps on the day of mid Lent - The children dance the minuet (Le salon de M. de Lesseps le jour de la mi-carême - Les enfants dansant le menuet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 46.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, historical
    • KEYWORDS: disguise, children
  • p9796

    p9796

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Joseph Gueldry (France, 1858-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsal at the Opera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 210 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1898 at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1400

    p1400

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Five dancers in parade (Fünf Tänzerinnen in Parade)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 41.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2646

    p2646

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Solo dancer (Solotänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 16.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p2236

    p2236

    • ARTIST: Lecler, Père et fils
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young sailors dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, printed cotton panel
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: navy, marine
  • s1401

    s1401

    • ARTIST: Harry Robert Mileham (U.K., 1873-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pied piper of Hamelin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1921
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited in the Suffolk Street Galleries, 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child, music, flute
  • p1315

    p1315

    • ARTIST: Clémence Bluteau
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • s1691

    s1691

    • ARTIST: André Galland (France, 1886-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Les manifestants, `minuit et quart, dans un établissement de nuit du quartier de Montmartre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1932
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris musicians on strike
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: strike
  • s1000

    s1000

    • ARTIST: Frank Craig (U.K., 1874-1918) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Christmas dance - as it is among the "classes"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.4 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: children, piano

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