Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4247

    s4247

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and musicians on the beach (Danseurs et musiciens sur la plage)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 146 x 114 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • s5116

    s5116

    • ARTIST: Alfredo de Morais (Portugal, 1872-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ovar. Varina dançando
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Portugal, Ovar
    • DANCE FORM: solo, female
  • s1733

    s1733

    • TITLE OF WORK: Nutcracker Barbie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: A version of the famous doll
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: doll
  • p4070

    p4070

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Aldegrever or Aldegraf (Germany, 1502-1555 or 1561)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dancers (Hochzeitstänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p5530

    p5530

    • TITLE OF WORK: The real cakewalk at the New Circus (Le vrai cake walk au Nouveau Cirque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p5118

    p5118

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Volkova gives a class
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p3944

    p3944

    • ARTIST: Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: National Opera - Gastibelza, 2nd act. Dance: Mr. Lerouge, Miss Richard (Opéra-National - Gastibelza, acte 2e. Danse: M. Lerouge, Mlle Richard)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1431

    p1431

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maidens dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p8496

    p8496

    • ARTIST: Emmanuel Spitzer (Germany, 1844-1919) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Love's grain planted (Keimende Liebe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.2 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s0622

    s0622

    • TITLE OF WORK: Church service dance of the Chinese on Formosa Island (Gottesdienstlicher Tanz der Chinesen auf der Insel Formosa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.3 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Taiwan, Formosa, China
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, musical instrument, flute
  • s6112

    s6112

    • TITLE OF WORK: Naked youth with a helmet running to right. Athlete participating in the hoplite race or a pyrrhic dancer.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief plaque, Parian marble
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found in Athens, near Theseion. Probably belonged to the facing of a funerary monument.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: pyrrhic
  • p7155

    p7155

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pastourelle, pas de deux by Marie Allard (Pastourelle, pas de deux de Marie Allard)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3079

    s3079

    • ARTIST: Serge Lifar (Ukraine, 1905-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Variations"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1942
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Presented at the Paris Opéra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4770

    p4770

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Kainer (Germany, 1885-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the Ballets Russes - Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, heightened with a porchoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 36 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2789

    p2789

    • ARTIST: H. Hornualle (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La crouzade
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk, crouzade
  • p2394

    p2394

    • ARTIST: Otto Dix (Germany, 1891-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and black ink
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 x 39.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s0125

    s0125

    • ARTIST: Luplau Janssen (Denmark, 1869-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing in the park
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 158.5 x 103.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • p4221

    p4221

    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian villagers dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2512

    s2512

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Zambelli - the dancer (Mlle Zambelli - la Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p2305

    p2305

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Laurent Brenot (France, 1913-1998)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Parisline, Casino de Paris, Line Renaud
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1976
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poster for the music-hall
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p9982

    p9982

    • ARTIST: Noël Saunier (France, 1847-1890)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An offering for the dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 65.4 x 92.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p9665

    p9665

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance movement D (Mouvement de danse D)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, black and green patina
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed and numbered No. 1. Part of a series of nine "Mouvements de danse" cast posthumously by the Musée Rodin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0183

    s0183

    • TITLE OF WORK: War dance of Nagas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.5 x 50.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Arrival of the Prince of Wales at Jeypore
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Jeypore
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, war
  • p3902

    p3902

    • ARTIST: Xavier Sager (France, 1870-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • s4746

    s4746

    • ARTIST: Roger Bezombes (France, 1913-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers with guitars (Danseuses aux guitares)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monotype heightenend
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, folk
    • KEYWORDS: mandoline, guitar
  • s3872

    s3872

    • ARTIST: Marianne von Werefkin (Russia, 1860-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance poses of Alexander Sacharoff
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p5396

    p5396

    • TITLE OF WORK: The cakewalk
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cakewalk
  • p2139

    p2139

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: American sidewise and two sailors, "Port Saîd" ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1935
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 25 cm
    • COMMENTS: Study for the ballet "Port Saîd" of the Ballets Russes; Larionov designed the costumes and the stage
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1978

    p1978

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sylphs (Les Sylphides)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3636

    p3636

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the play "Salome": Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache heightened with white, pencil, pen, brush and India ink, gold and silver
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 45.5 x 29.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Salome", play by Oscar Wilde
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, theater, costume, religion
  • p0944

    p0944

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p5946

    p5946

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Passionata mystica
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7197

    p7197

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cossack dance before the Russian general Komaroff, at Old Sarakhs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Afghanistan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military, weapon, knife
  • s1357

    s1357

    • TITLE OF WORK: A grammar of the art of dancing - 1 (Eine Grammatik der Tanzkunst)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 6 x 5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article on the dance notation system devised by Friedrich Albert Zorn, dance teacher at the imperial Russian Richelieu Gymnasium at Odessa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
  • p4548

    p4548

    • ARTIST: Paul Vredeman de Vries (Flanders, 1567-1617) & France Francken II (Flanders, 1581-1642)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Society scene (Gesellschaftsszene)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1630
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 76 x 88.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p3387

    p3387

    • ARTIST: John Piper (U.K., 1903-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Backcloth design for the revival of the ballet "Job"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1948
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1204

    s1204

    • ARTIST: Stop (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Adventures of Mr. Verdreau (2) (Aventures de M. Verdreau (2))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s5464

    s5464

    • ARTIST: Bruno Bruni (Italy, 1935-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballerina and dummy (Ballerina e manichino)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, 5 colors, poster
    • DATE: 2010
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 95.5 x 71 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p0039

    p0039

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer turning to the right (Danseuse tournée vers la gauche)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel et gilt paint on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 68 x 29 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1855

    s1855

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sentimental Milonga; lyrics by Homero Manzi, music by Sebastiàn Piana (Milonga sentimental; letra de Homero Manzi, musica de Sebastiàn Piana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1931
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: milonga, couple, ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: music score cover
  • s2647

    s2647

    • ARTIST: Pavle "Paja" Jovanovi? (Serbia, 1859-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Albanians dancing (Albanais dansants)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Albania, Montenegro
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword, sabre, handjar
  • p2502

    p2502

    • ARTIST: Marie-Alexandre Adolphe (France, 1812-1883) (drawing); Delanois (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mariano Camprubi and Dolores Serral in "Le boléro"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1834
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 15.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bals de l'Opéra de Paris, 1834
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4031

    p4031

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ballet (Le ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1876
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2075

    p2075

    • ARTIST: P. Lavalley
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Hérodiade" -1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1945
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5153

    p5153

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Comus", Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1945
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5799

    s5799

    • ARTIST: Follower of the Luicali Painter; Mikali Painter
    • TITLE OF WORK: Male beween two female dancers. Black-figure stamnos vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure stamnos vase
    • DATE: -410
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
  • p7053

    p7053

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of gods in the form of animals
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1595
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Mogul period
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p6736

    p6736

    • ARTIST: Carlos Llobet Busquets (Spain, 1857-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Las murcianas dance in Murcia (Las murcianas - Murcia)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • p6050

    p6050

    • ARTIST: Nikola Obrazopissov (Bulgaria, 1828-1915)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Samokov chain dance (Selsko horo ot samokovskaya okoliya)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1892
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bulgaria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s3661

    s3661

    • ARTIST: Charles Amédée de Noé or Cham (France, 1818-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The natural prudeness of their sex…" ("La pudeur naturelle de leur sexe…")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, vignette
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature

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