Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s2539

    s2539

    • ARTIST: Guillaume van Strydonck (Belgium, 1861-1937)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance before the temple of Madura (Danse devant le temple de Madura)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 110 x 140 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, titled in English and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • s0422

    s0422

    • ARTIST: G. Röck (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Tyrolean country feast in Innsbruck: Popular celebration at Hirschanger (Das tiroler Landesfest in Innsbruck: Das Volksfest auf dem Hirschanger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 35.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Innsbruck
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0126

    s0126

    • ARTIST: Pal Fried (U.S.A., 1893-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The intermission
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 60 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: shoe, pointes
  • p5249

    p5249

    • ARTIST: Capuletti
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La corrida" by the Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1957
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by David Lichine
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8516

    p8516

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hungarian girls dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1858
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s5501

    s5501

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bobino. Miskovitch et son Ballet de Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1967
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: poster
  • p8021

    p8021

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Javanese dancer and her orchestra (Die javanische Tänzerin und ihr Orchester)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.9 x 12.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, folk, solo
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s0874

    s0874

    • TITLE OF WORK: Whitechapel in Wales. How five medical students took a class of poor Whitechapel boys to Wales - Fiddling and dancing in the evening
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.2 x 12.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Wales
    • DANCE FORM: popular, male
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2301

    s2301

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Casanova" scene 2, full stage
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • s2381

    s2381

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 26
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • s1250

    s1250

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Les sylvains", composed and played by Chaminade. The "Duo-Art" 'pianola' piano. Aeolian
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.5 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: faun, turtle, animal
  • s0882

    s0882

    • ARTIST: Marguerite Mackain-Langlois (France, 1896-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Antonia Argentina - "Bolero classique"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.8 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, stage, solo, Spanish dance
  • p7947

    p7947

    • ARTIST: Eugène Fromentin (France, 1820-1876)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro itinerant musicians among the tribes (Bateleurs nègres dans les tribus)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1867
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 99 x 141 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left "Eug. Fromentin"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Algeria, Morocco
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • p6583

    p6583

    • ARTIST: Edouard Halouze (France, 1895-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The death of Aase. Scene for the film "Les ballets fantastiques de Loïe Fuller"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p6588

    p6588

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketch for a poster for the troupe of Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p6669

    p6669

    • ARTIST: Irène Leduc
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar in the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3766

    p3766

    • ARTIST: Sergei Soudeikin (Russia, 1882-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les noces"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: "Les noces", music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography by Elizabeth Anderson, sets and costumes by Serge Soudeikin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1634

    s1634

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the Ballets de Roland Petit
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1962
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5718

    s5718

    • TITLE OF WORK: Black-figured kyathos: Dionysus, two Satyrs, Sphinxes and apotropaic eyes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure kyathos vase
    • DATE: -535
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.4 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Kyathos is a ladle with a high vertical handle. Decorated with a scene related to the purpose of the object, such ladles were used to remove wine from large vessels. In order to protect the drinkers t
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica
  • p8398

    p8398

    • TITLE OF WORK: Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland: Grand national ball in the Exhibition Palace, Dublin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.1 x 51.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s2575

    s2575

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Seises of the cathedral of Seville dancing before the saint sacrement (Seises de la cathédrale de Séville dansant devant le saint-sacrement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Gustave Doré and Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Sevilla
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, boys, church
  • s0286

    s0286

    • ARTIST: Cameron, lieutenant (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Pagazi at Kiwakasongo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 31.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lieutenant Cameron's travels in Central Africa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Central Africa, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • p2842

    p2842

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: G. Gallante as Callas-Norma in the ballet "Mare nostrum"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1983
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Maurice Béjart, music from the aria by Bellini from "Casta diva" sung by Maria Callas, Ballets of the 20th Century. Athens, Herod Atticus Theater, 20/06/1983
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2156

    s2156

    • ARTIST: Belly (drawing); Edm. Hédouin (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hebbeh. The sabre dance (Sebbeh. La danse du sabre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 22.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: The sabre dance, executed by the Djahalin Bedwins at the Sebbeh desert
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Syria, Palestine, Dead Sea
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: fire, sabre, sword, arm,
  • p4901

    p4901

    • ARTIST: Adriaen Jansz van Ostade (Netherlands, 1610-1685) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4602

    s4602

    • ARTIST: Armand Assus (France, 1892-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the Ouled Nails (La danse des Ouled Naïl)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Study for one of the 8 fresques of the Foyer Civique of Algiers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, duo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, zurna, tambourine
  • p5296

    p5296

    • ARTIST: Sven Erixson (Sweden, 1899-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Melodies at the Square (Melodier vid torget)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1937
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 620 x 912 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Morocco, Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4106

    s4106

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers among musicians, from a scene of "Praise the Lord"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Cyprus, Nicosia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1638

    p1638

    • ARTIST: Alexander Archipenko (Ukraine, 1887-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Blue dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, green patina
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 101.5 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
  • p1856

    p1856

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lunois (France, 1863-1916)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The café "El Imperial"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p2453

    p2453

    • ARTIST: August Macke (Germany, 1887-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female chord dancer (Seiltänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 37 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: chord dance, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p5092

    p5092

    • TITLE OF WORK: Jullien's celebrated polkas. No. 1, the original polka, as danced at the soirées du haut-ton in London, Paris, Vienna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Arthur Saint Leon and Fanny Cerrito in the Lituana polka
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka
  • p2762

    p2762

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Kainer (Germany, 1885-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2195

    p2195

    • TITLE OF WORK: Queen Elizabeth dancing "lavolta" with the Earl of Leicester
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1585
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: After a painting in Penshurst Palace. The couple dances the "volta", a vigorous dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s2210

    s2210

    • ARTIST: Luis Rivero
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caricature of Antonia Mercé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1933
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, popular
  • p8619

    p8619

    • ARTIST: Alexander Calder (U.S.A., 1898-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker (Joséphine Baker)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, steel wire
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 68.6 x 24.1 x 19.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Auctionned at Sotheby's New York
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p6616

    p6616

    • ARTIST: Carl Lallemand (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The banner dance in the Black Forest)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1555

    p1555

    • ARTIST: Carl Huth (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Romaika, Greek national dance (La Romaika, danse nationale grecque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 19.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, romaica
  • s5410

    s5410

    • ARTIST: Karl Hagenauer (Austria, 1898-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s2258

    s2258

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gertrud Leistikow - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p4736

    p4736

    • ARTIST: W. T. Green (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The bonfire dance. Midsummer's or St. John's Eve - as it used to be
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2342

    p2342

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Zille (Germany, 1858-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Claire Waldoff in the "Great Zille Ball" in Berlin's Grosses Schauspielhaus, March 1925
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1774

    s1774

    • ARTIST: Maggie Parker (U.K., 1925-2012)
    • TITLE OF WORK: To the light
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1994
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: female
  • s5035

    s5035

    • ARTIST: S.-A. Maumejean
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Indians' dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic, colored and gilt glass
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 194 x 300 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, America
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s3375

    s3375

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kubilaï, emperor of Chima, celebrating with his court
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Folio 44. A white feast, where everyone was dressed in white. From the book by Marco Polo.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Peking, Beijing
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s0337

    s0337

    • ARTIST: Danilo Cervietti (Italy)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tha pagan dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, white marble and grey polished granite, on a stepped marble plinth
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 125 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed and entitled
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Antiquity, Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage, Oriental
  • p0994

    p0994

    • TITLE OF WORK: Myriam, Moses and Jews
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Athos, Israel
  • s3762

    s3762

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Women dancers from the village of Nea Vyssa Orestiadas, Thrace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, black ink
    • DATE: 1972
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Thrace, Evros, Orestiada, Nea Byssa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: flowers
  • s6078

    s6078

    • ARTIST: The Bowdoin-Eye Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: B: Komos, youth at krater, between eyes. A: Satyr squatting with drinking horn, between eyes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup A, vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p6444

    p6444

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball from the great world - First series (Ein Ball aus der grossen Welt - Erste Serie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom

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