Dance History Gallery

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Dance History Gallery
  • s3230

    s3230

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Deliades
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: -460
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Designed after a red-figure wedding vase from Rinia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Cyclades Island, Mykonos
  • s3181

    s3181

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer Alexander Sacharoff (Der Tänzer Alexander Sacharoff)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p8715

    p8715

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vauxhall Gardens - The new ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Grant Calabrian festal haunt" from "Zelita, or The maid of Calabria", with Miss Julien and Miss Pieron
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1936

    p1936

    • ARTIST: Luis Peyrinet Terry
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancer of Granada
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s5991

    s5991

    • TITLE OF WORK: Humayun seated on throne enjoying music and dance. Two girls, one in blue, one in yellow
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on paper, manuscript illumination,
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Mughal
  • p8727

    p8727

    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebrations given in Cairo on the occasion of the marriage of the daughter of the vice king of Egypt. Dance of the Kowals
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 31.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6757

    p6757

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Six sketches for "The dance"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1868
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: It is known that it was Princess Hélène de Racowitza who modeled for the famous sculpture "The spirit of the dance", decorating the entrance of the Paris Opéra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p0111

    p0111

    • ARTIST: Gustavo Simoni (Italy, 1846-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Outside the palace (A l'extérieur du palais)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 119 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated. Representing the entrance of the mosque of Sidi Boumedine at El-Eubbad near Tlemcen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, solo
  • s0434

    s0434

    • ARTIST: Georg Römer (Germany, 1868-1922) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ancient dancer (Antike Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 4.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage
  • s4281

    s4281

    • ARTIST: Gaston Girbal
    • TITLE OF WORK: Casino de Paris. La grande revue
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1943
    • DIMENSIONS: 117 x 76 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Casino de Paris continued during the German occupation, repeating previous productions
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, music-hall
  • p7111

    p7111

    • ARTIST: René Péron (France, 1904-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The maneuvers" by René Clair. Michèle Morgan and Gérard Philipe ("Les grandes manoeuvres", de René Clair. Michèle Morgan et Gérard Philipe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1955
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p3135

    p3135

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler and the Baltimoreans
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3056

    s3056

    • ARTIST: Pietro Longhi (Italy, 1701-1785) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance class in Venice (Leçon de danse à Venise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print after a painting
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p8194

    p8194

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "Le tricorne" - The cripple's cape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed: La cape du béquillard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s5937

    s5937

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dionysos flanked by a Satyr and a dancing Maenad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure skyphos vase
    • DATE: -485
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,
    • KEYWORDS: Maenad
  • p5715

    p5715

    • ARTIST: Annereau (drawing); Pasquier (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nine figures of the Allemande
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1768
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p3832

    p3832

    • TITLE OF WORK: Gold plaque in the form of female dancer, with a kalathos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, gold
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 5.3 cm height
    • COMMENTS: From the stone tomb no. 1 in the Kurgan Bolshaya Bliznitsa on the Tanam Peninsula, Ivi, Black Sea. Compare with item s5190.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ancient, woman dance
  • p3900

    p3900

    • ARTIST: Alexandra Exter (Russia, 1882-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "On the road": Japanese Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.5 x 37.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5752

    p5752

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Martin (France, 1659-1735) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet dancer as peasant woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0082

    p0082

    • ARTIST: Peter Paul Rubens (Flanders, 1577-1640)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the villagers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1636
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 x 106 cm
    • COMMENTS: The painting was probably executed by painters of Rubens's workshop from a drawing he made in Vienna.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0037

    p0037

    • ARTIST: Theodoros Vryzakis (Greece, 1814-1878)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Choros). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6729

    p6729

    • ARTIST: Carlos Llobet Busquets (Spain, 1857-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Las seguidillas - Castilla la Nueva
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • p8390

    p8390

    • TITLE OF WORK: Highland Dancers and Pipers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 15.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Highland Pipers and Dancers performing at the Surrey Zoological Gardens
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p0223

    p0223

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Moorish dancers (Cirque-Olympique des Champs-Elysées - Les danseuses moresques)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • s5166

    s5166

    • ARTIST: Hans Zatzka (Austria, 1859-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fairies dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 0
    • COMMENTS: http:/www.google.com/imgres?q=hans+zatzka+paintings&start=91&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=860&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=_ZUBr7F4MuB-oM:&imgrefurl=http:/polarbearstale.blogspot.com/2009/05/hans-zatzka-1859
    • DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: fairies, girls
  • p0551

    p0551

    • ARTIST: Walter Crane (U.K., 1845-1915)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A masque of the Four Seasons
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1907
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 122 x 224 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K., Germany
  • p2105

    p2105

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Diaghilev, Natalia Gontcharova and Igor Stravinsky in Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.9 x 20.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1807

    p1807

    • ARTIST: Boris Israëlevich Anisfeld (Russia, 1878-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les sept filles du génie de la montagne": The Tsarevna (danced by Anna Pavlova)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.1 x 31.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by A. Spendiarov, choreography by M. Fokine. Company of Anna Pavlova, Berlin 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4644

    p4644

    • ARTIST: Daniel Chodowiecki (Poland, 1726-1801)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Taking off one's hat (Hut-Abziehen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1774
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p3277

    p3277

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Naked Zeibekiko dancer, lilac frame, Maroussi 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
  • p8673

    p8673

    • TITLE OF WORK: Popular bal in Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 21.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the novel "Toute une jeunesse" by François Coppée
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • p6265

    p6265

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing "Valse" by Schubert (Isadora Duncan dansant "Valse" par Schubert)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 17.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s5622

    s5622

    • ARTIST: Leagros Group (Greece, active c. 525-500 BC) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Seated god and four women dancing. Attic black-figure hydria
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, terracotta black-figure vase
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.5 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: On the shoulder: two quadrigae racing to the right. On the body: Dionysos, seated on a diphros, surrounded by dancing maenads. He holds a kantharos and grapevines, and wears an ivy wreath. The two mae
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: god
  • s4811

    s4811

    • ARTIST: Marcel Blairat (France, 1849-?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female slave with tambourine -2 (Odalisque au tambourin -2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 x 25 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated (18)83 at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo, Oriental
  • s4880

    s4880

    • TITLE OF WORK: Girl dancing while another girl plays the tambourine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p4577

    p4577

    • ARTIST: Adam Olearius (Germany, 1599-1671) (drawing?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Ladoga
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1656
    • COMMENTS: Olearius arrived on 23/07/1634 in Ladoga and on the same day saw a Russian dance for the first time.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1705

    p1705

    • ARTIST: A. Gasparini (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In front of the temple of the Zeus Olympian (Avanzi del tempio di Giove Olimpico)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1843
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 x 52.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a series of ten engravings published in Rome from 1842 to 1844
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Italy, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8332

    p8332

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and orchestra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 44 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the T'ang period, a time when Eastern Turkestan fell under Chinese rule. This work stems from Kumtura, Central Asia.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p3643

    p3643

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Schéhérazade": Eunuch
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes. Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4631

    p4631

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Bonnart (France, 1637?-1718)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance master (Maistre à dancer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s1726

    s1726

    • ARTIST: Galina Solovyova (Russia, 1975-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "A thousand and one nioghts": The Chief of Thieves
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1995
    • COMMENTS: From the production of the ballet "A thousand and one nights" by the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, choreographed by Eldar Aliev
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4088

    p4088

    • ARTIST: David Vinckboons (Netherlands, 1576-1632?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant kirmess (Bauernkirmess)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1620
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1740

    p1740

    • ARTIST: Giorgio de Chirico (Italy, 1888-1978)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "La jarre"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "La jarre", ballet in one act; music by Casella, choreography by Jean Börlin; created at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées by the Ballets Suédois.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p7218

    p7218

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at sultan's court (Danseuses à la cour du sultan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Types et costumes de Java"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: court, stage
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p7773

    p7773

    • TITLE OF WORK: Souvenir of Cyprus. The national dance at Nicosia (Souvenir de Chypre. La danse nationale à Nicosie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cyprus, Nicosia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
  • p6196

    p6196

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dance (Danse russe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9526

    p9526

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The toast (Le toast)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 214 x 155 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, popular, trio
  • p8366

    p8366

    • ARTIST: Georges Rochegrosse (France, 1859-1938) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ancient dance - Heliogabalus in the temple of the Sun (La danse antique - Héliogabale au temple du Soleil)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 22.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s2580

    s2580

    • ARTIST: Alphonse de Neuville (France, 1835-1885) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: War dance of the Obbos (Danse de guerre des Obbos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.6 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage à l'Albert N'yanza ou Lac Albert"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: war, weapon, spears, shields, tree
  • s3033

    s3033

    • ARTIST: Adolph Birkenruth (South Africa, 1863-?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Preparing for the pantomime
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.3 x 23.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage

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