Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s5252

    s5252

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with bird mask
    • TYPE OF WORK: Terracotta
    • DATE: 500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: 300-1000
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: mask
  • p1087

    p1087

    • ARTIST: Dance Painter (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing women
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -715
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p5782

    p5782

    • ARTIST: Frédéric Lix (France, 1830-1897) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Miniature Theatre - Performance of "White Cat" (Le Théâtre-Miniature - Représentation de la "Chatte-Blanche"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9717

    p9717

    • ARTIST: Serge Yourievitch (Russia, 1876-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer Nattova (La danseuse Nattova)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, brown patination, on an onyx marble plinth
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Titled and signed on the terrace. Cire perdue Valsuani
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p5685

    p5685

    • TITLE OF WORK: The hat dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1703
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2824

    p2824

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures from the Iranian ballet "Golestan" (Rose Garden) by Maurice Béjart
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1976
    • COMMENTS: Ballets of the 20th Century, choreography by Maurice Béjart. Athens, Herodes Atticus Theater, August 1976.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, folk
  • s5482

    s5482

    • ARTIST: Serge Lifar (Ukraine, 1905-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Milorad Miskovic "Le danseur"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s4232

    s4232

    • ARTIST: Karl Walser (Switzerland, 1877-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Japanese dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching, color
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p6305

    p6305

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5068

    s5068

    • ARTIST: Eduard Jener i Casellas (Spain, 1882-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tortola Valencia - Tablets for the bathtub, Myrurgia, Barcelona (Tortola Valencia - Comprimidos de sales para bano Maja, Myrurgia, Barcelona)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, publicity card
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Tortola Valencia gave permission to the artist to use her picture
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s5233

    s5233

    • TITLE OF WORK: Madame Lola Montez (Senora Lola Montez)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.2 x 32.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was the lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: Lola Montez, portrait
  • p4017

    p4017

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three nude studies (Trois études de nu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5266

    p5266

    • ARTIST: Francis Picabia (France, 1879-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Prontispiece of the musical score by Erik Satie for the ballet "Relâche"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: Created on 04/12/1924 at the Théâtre des Champs-élysées by the Ballets Suédois; choreography by Jean Börlin, décors by Picabia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1124

    s1124

    • ARTIST: Marcel Vertès (Hungary, 1895-1961) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 12.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p3276

    p3276

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Naked Zeibekiko dancer, Eros left crowning him, 14/09/1977
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on craft paper
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.9 x 29.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 14/09/1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p5402

    p5402

    • TITLE OF WORK: The polka performed in the Buckingham Palace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1848
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s2853

    s2853

    • ARTIST: H. Castelli (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball at Julianashaab (Un bal à Julianashaab)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 23.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "La terre de désolation" by Isaac J. Hayes, 1869
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greenland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1278

    s1278

    • ARTIST: D. Macpherson (sketch); J. Nash (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Spanish-American War: Troops at Tampa celebrating the order to start for Cuba by a Sioux war-dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 30.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Florida, Tampa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: fire, military,
  • s1930

    s1930

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Apariciones", Anne Heaton, Royal Ballet, London
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4521

    s4521

    • TITLE OF WORK: Byelorussian national dance "Kryzachok"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1957
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belarus
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple, folk
  • p5429

    p5429

    • ARTIST: Simon "Soliko" Virsaladze (Georgia, 1909-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the dance "Miuluri"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, folk
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4611

    p4611

    • ARTIST: Pehr Hilleström (Sweden, 1732-1816)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance with violin in a peasant house
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1775
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3013

    p3013

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan reading Faust in the railway train
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1905
    • COMMENTS: On the train between Hamburg and Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K., U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p0014

    p0014

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple (Couple dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2962

    p2962

    • ARTIST: Bill Fisher
    • TITLE OF WORK: The first heartbeat (Pierwsze bicie serca)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p0256

    p0256

    • ARTIST: Henriot
    • TITLE OF WORK: I danced the polka (Je dansais la polka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 40 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka
  • s3985

    s3985

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Movement (Mouvement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p1173

    p1173

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mariam and two other girls dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Dance of Myriam
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s1310

    s1310

    • ARTIST: Joachim Claret (Spain, 1879-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Spain,
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p3776

    p3776

    • ARTIST: Edward Burra (U.K., 1905-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing skeletons
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 78.7 x 55.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
  • p4215

    p4215

    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball of the Court of Trade. The grand dance-hall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.5 x 25 cm
    • COMMENTS: La fête du Tribunal de Commerce: La grande salle de bal.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2197

    p2197

    • TITLE OF WORK: A French-style ball (Bal à la française)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1685
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s3544

    s3544

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in the arabesque position seen from the side (Danseuse en arabesque vue de profil)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and charcoal on paper laid down on board
    • DATE: 1886
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 33.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with signature "Degas" lower right; inscribed "arabesque croisée" upper left and "bras droit plus allongé manque d'aplomb" center right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p9995

    p9995

    • ARTIST: Giandomenico Tiepolo (Italy, 1727-1804)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1756
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 79 x 108.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Similar to the painting by Tiepolo with the same title in the Louvre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise, carnival
  • p9765

    p9765

    • ARTIST: David Vinckboons (Netherlands, 1576-1632?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The butter fair (Die Boter Cermis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on copper
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43.9 x 71 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Butter Fair was held in the spring when the cattle were producing their richest milk for churning butter.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6324

    p6324

    • TITLE OF WORK: Magnificent ballet of king Louis XV, given at Chantilly (Magnifique ballet du Roy Louis XV, donné à Chantilly)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, court
  • s5532

    s5532

    • ARTIST: Jose Guadalupe Posada (Mexico, 1852-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Jarabe beyond the grave (El jarabe en ultratumba)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching on zinc
    • DATE: 1930
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: jarabe, Mexican dance
    • KEYWORDS: skeleton, death, macabre
  • p4417

    p4417

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Grace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s0912

    s0912

    • ARTIST: Laura Knight (U.K., 1877-1970) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "La parade", preliminaries behind the stage
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.2 x 10.3 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
  • p3049

    p3049

    • ARTIST: Pedro Pruna (Spain, 1904-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet-pantomime "Le triomphe de Neptune": A Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, pen, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3002

    p3002

    • ARTIST: Walter Schott (Germany, 1861-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 1903
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p0842

    p0842

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers, Vera Nemtchinova to the right
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1919
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
  • p4674

    p4674

    • ARTIST: Antoine Trouvain (France, 1656-1708)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fourth chamber of the appartments (Quatrième chambre des apartements)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1695
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The nephew of the KIng, duke Philipp of Orleans, dances in the presence of the Duke Louis de Bourgogne
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p2657

    p2657

    • ARTIST: Christian Rohlfs (Germany, 1849-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Attempt to dance (Tanzversuch)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s2736

    s2736

    • TITLE OF WORK: Negroes' dance (Danse de nègres)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1791
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Santo Domingo, Dominica
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1874

    p1874

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p2325

    p2325

    • ARTIST: Johann Christian Schoeller (Austria, 1782-1851) (drawing); Andreas Geiger (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The grand Galop by Joh. Strauss (Der grosse Galop, von Joh. Strauss)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper engraving, colored
    • DATE: 1839
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.6 x 29.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: popular, galop
  • p1384

    p1384

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache, scissors cut
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 77.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p0829

    p0829

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maenad with sword and dismembered animal, flutist playing double flute
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on a vase
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, animal
  • p1214

    p1214

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and other figures
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: 730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: A triple scene, each part comprising a dancer, a figure lying on the ground and a figure floating above. Each figure is accompanied by an inscription stating it is a "prince of the lower world" or "de
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico, Maya
    • KEYWORDS: Maya, religion

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