Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0988

    s0988

    • ARTIST: Zofia Stryjenska (Poland, 1891-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kolomyjka, Ruthenian dance (Kolomyjka, danse ruthène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1956
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Wyd. "Galeria Polska" Krakow 944
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: Kolomyjka, traditional, couple
  • p0094

    p0094

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance round the golden calf (Tanz um das Goldene Kalb)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 87.9 x 105.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: religion, animal
  • p6377

    p6377

    • TITLE OF WORK: Suez Isthmus. A dance by almehs returning from the threshold of El Guisr in Timsah (Isthme de Suez. Danse des almées au retour du seuil d'El Guisr à Timsah)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4282

    p4282

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masks' dance (Maskentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inspired from a choreography by Mary Wigman
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: mask
  • p8376

    p8376

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Breton dance (La danse bretonne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1664

    p1664

    • TITLE OF WORK: Masked ball on the occasion of the Jewish Purim holiday
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Gemaskerd bal, by Gelegenheid van het Joodsche Purim-Feest
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Jewish, disguise, mask
  • p9218

    p9218

    • ARTIST: Jacques Villon (France, 1875-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (Le danseur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1948
    • DIMENSIONS: 81 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, titled and dated '47-48 (1947-1948)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p7036

    p7036

    • ARTIST: Bincenz Melka (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A wedding in Siebenburg Saxony (Eine Hochzeit siebenbürgischer Sachsen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9870

    p9870

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vajravahari dancing on the body of the Hindu god Bhairava
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, copper, inlaid in silver and gold, on a brass base
    • DATE: 1350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Tibet
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p3707

    p3707

    • TITLE OF WORK: Women, women, women. Bal of the Moulin Rouge. Poster (Femmes, femmes, femmes. Bal du Moulin Rouge. Poster)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1983
    • COMMENTS: Music by Henri Betti and Jean-Pierre Landreau; lyrics by André Homez and Roland Léonar; choreography by Doris Haug, Ruggero Angeletti and Lary Vickers; musical director Roland Audefroy; costumes and s
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1259

    s1259

    • ARTIST: Howard K. Elcock (U.K., 19??-19??) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: London at tea-time
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s0045

    s0045

    • ARTIST: Johann Baptist Pflug (Germany, 1785-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wedding feast
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1833
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.2 x 37.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, traditional
  • p9369

    p9369

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fancy dress ball given by the Mayor of Liverpool in the townhall to the officers of the Channel Fleet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.8 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Liverpool
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p2933

    p2933

    • ARTIST: Theophilos Hadjimichail (Greece, 1867-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The bear dancing (I arktos chorevoussa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1933
    • DIMENSIONS: 118 x 73 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p1486

    p1486

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Panel for La Goulue's booth
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 298 x 310 cm
    • COMMENTS: La Goulue owed her nickname to an insatiable appetite; she was initially a laundress, then a comedian with the Medrano Circus, then dancer in the Moulin de la Galette, the Jardin de Paris, and finally
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s4305

    s4305

    • ARTIST: Jean-Antoine Watteau (France, 1684-1721)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marriage contract and country ball (Contrat de mariage et bal champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1712
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 55 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p3012

    p3012

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan in the train from Hamburg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1905
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2077

    s2077

    • ARTIST: Robert Henri (U.S.A., 1865-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet girl in white
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3756

    p3756

    • ARTIST: Serge Eisenstein
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Diaghilev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p4564

    p4564

    • ARTIST: Cornelis Dusart (Netherlands, 1660-1704)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lichtertanz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1675
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 31.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2137

    p2137

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at rest
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3217

    s3217

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kara (Russia, 19??-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 2002
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Gallerie Georges Detais, Paris, 24/09/2002-06/10/2002
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3387

    s3387

    • TITLE OF WORK: L'invitation à la danse (Invitation to dance)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Plate 13
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p7460

    p7460

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bear "dancing" and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p8408

    p8408

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Schmidt (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sieber festival in the Schwäbisch Hall (Das Siederfest in Schwäbisch Ball)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 31.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p9515

    p9515

    • ARTIST: Jean-Marc Nattier (France, 1685-1766)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Euterpe, the muse of music (Euterpe, muse de la musique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1725
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 82.5 x 101 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s4543

    s4543

    • ARTIST: Boris Frödman-Cluzel (Russia, 1878-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with bow (Danseur à l'arc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Cire perdue technique, Hébard foundry
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, bow
  • p5890

    p5890

    • ARTIST: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (France, 1825-1905) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchus in his youth (La jeunesse de Bacchus)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.1 x 21.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Salon de 1884, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p9325

    p9325

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pas Styrien, as danced by Mlle. Fanny Elssler & Mons. Sylvain
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1843
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p1082

    p1082

    • TITLE OF WORK: Procession of Greek women from Stamboul
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Turkey, Istanbul
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2778

    s2778

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Wine Growers' Festival celebrated in Vevey on 26 and 27 July (La Fête des vignerons, célébrée à Vevey les 26 et 27 juillet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland, Vevey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • s2538

    s2538

    • ARTIST: Mohammad Ali Naqâsh
    • TITLE OF WORK: Persian wedding (Mariage persan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 35 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed in farsi and dated 1322 (AD 1904-1905)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • p5636

    p5636

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ring dance to a violin and bagpipe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1555
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1524

    p1524

    • ARTIST: Dionysios Varvianis (Greece, 1788-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Theseus, colloquially called Diargitos (Ballo di Teseo, volgarmente detto Diargitos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The "Varvianis chronicle" has been destroyed during the 1952 earthquake and the fire that followed in the town of Zakynthos (Zante), Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Zante, Zakynthos Island
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7365

    p7365

    • ARTIST: Thomas Nelson MacLean (U.K., 1845-1894) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A spring festival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.9 x 11.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • s0861

    s0861

    • TITLE OF WORK: The carnival at Nice
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 30
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Nice
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: street, disguise
  • p8270

    p8270

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Bechstein (Germany, 1843-1914) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball war (Der Ballkrieg)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.8 x 17.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s2224

    s2224

    • ARTIST: Eugène Courboin (France, 1851-1915) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers of Tchangka (Danseurs de Tchangka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.1 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "A travers le Tibet incinnu" by Mr Bonvalot (1889-1890)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Tibet, Tchangka
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8245

    p8245

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Notre-Dame de Paris", scene 2 ("Notre-Dame de Paris", deuxième tableau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 22.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: A drana in 5 acts and 15 scenes, by Paul Foucher, after the novel by Victor Hugo, at the Théâtre des Nations, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • s5699

    s5699

    • ARTIST: Theodor Eichler (Germany, 1868-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figurine "A dancer". Porcelain
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ceramic, porcelain, polychrome overglaze painting, gilding
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.9 ? 26.4 ? 20.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p9764

    p9764

    • ARTIST: S. C. Jollie (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Elssler Quadrilles. Gypsy, Spanish dance, La Craccovienne, La Sylphide, La Gitana
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Boston, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo, Spanish dance
  • s1478

    s1478

    • ARTIST: Stéphane Lamarche (France, 1891-1963) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sabre dance, Ouled Na?l (Danse du sabre, Ouled Na?l)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1933
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.6 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, popular, armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sabre, sword
  • s0465

    s0465

    • ARTIST: Helene Schjerfbeck (Finland, 1862-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing shoe (Balskorna)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1939
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 68 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed with initials. This work is part of a series that started in 1882. It exists also in a smaller version.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: shoe
  • p7078

    p7078

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Russian season at the Opera, june 1910 (La saison russe à l'Opéra, juin 1910)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina, Ballets Russes. After a photograph by K. A. Fischer
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • p6432

    p6432

    • TITLE OF WORK: The five positions of the dance (Les cinq positions de la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p2058

    p2058

    • ARTIST: Spyros Vassiliou (Greece, 1902-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stage design for the ballet "The wonderful mandarin"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1959
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern, stage
  • p4363

    p4363

    • ARTIST: Guéraud (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in the ballet "La bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1281

    s1281

    • ARTIST: G. Demam Hammond (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A last dance with Tom Crosby before his departure for India
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.8 x 8.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from the book "Three fair maids" by Katharine Tynan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p6418

    p6418

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Suivant de Zephire (Follower of the wind god)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1983

    p1983

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arabesque movement
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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