Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s5954

    s5954

    • TITLE OF WORK: Gold box-bezel ring decorated with a maenad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, gold bezel ring
    • DATE: -315
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 2.4 x 1.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Found at Avola, Siracusa, Sicily. Gold box-bezel ring decorated with a maenad. The top of the bezel is formed from an embossed gold sheet showing a maenad dancing to the right, her left arm up over he
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Western, Italy
    • KEYWORDS: Maenad
  • s4933

    s4933

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Thermoluminescence
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s2599

    s2599

    • ARTIST: L. Crépon (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the collectors of the Kami cult (Danse des quêteurs du culte kami)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Japon" by Aimé Humbert, 1863-1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, drum
  • p6378

    p6378

    • ARTIST: Rigault (drawing); L. Dumont (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball given in Vin-Long in Indochina (Bal donné à Vin-Long en Cochinchine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indochina, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5454

    p5454

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figure of the quadrille (Figure de quadrille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p9866

    p9866

    • ARTIST: Jean Bérain the Elder (France, 1638-1711) & Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (carton)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grotesque with a dancing musician and chord dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 270 x 430 cm
    • COMMENTS: Made by the Manufacture de Beauvais
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p2417

    p2417

    • ARTIST: Karl Arnold (Germany, 1883-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The review (Die Revue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, watercolors with ink brush
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.4 x 20.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Caption: Det is wirklich Bühnenkunst - da is Text und Musike Nebensache (This is real stage art - lyrics and music are secondary
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p0484

    p0484

    • ARTIST: Torii I Kiyomasu (Japan, 1694-1716)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Street dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, book illustration
    • DATE: 1696
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
  • s5016

    s5016

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas laid down on wood
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 180 x 120 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: kerchief
  • p7909

    p7909

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maya dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
  • p1430

    p1430

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers (Deux danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 92 x 73 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s3719

    s3719

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673) (workshop of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the night". 2nd veille, 7th entry. A shopping street ("Ballet de la nuit". 2nd veille, 7th entrée. A shopping street)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache
    • DATE: 1653
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 44 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
  • s5168

    s5168

    • ARTIST: Jan Brueghel The Elder (Flanders, 1568-1625)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village feast
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on copper
    • DATE: 1600
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.6 x 68.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1600
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: music, bagpipes
  • p9504

    p9504

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pleasantry polka (Scherz-Polka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 25 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration of figures and musical score by F. Wesner
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, round
    • KEYWORDS: musical score
  • p1682

    p1682

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Steinlen (Switzerland, 1859-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Iberia", act 1: The Sailor
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, Indian ink and watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 20 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Suédois
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5291

    s5291

    • ARTIST: Carlo Sarrabezolles (France, 1888-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Triumphal dance of Pallas Athena (La danse triomphale de Pallas Athéna)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statue, raisin
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 260 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: solo, female,
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, spear, shield
  • s1375

    s1375

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Netherlands festival of the Artists' Union in the Artists' Hall at Vienna (Das niederländische Kirmesfest der Künstlergenossenschaft im Künstlerhause zu Wien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.8 x 49.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p8763

    p8763

    • TITLE OF WORK: That is my doll: Anna and Heinrich dancing in the village inn (Dat's mien Bopp: Anna un Heirich bi'n Danz in'n Dorpkroog)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, popular
  • s4785

    s4785

    • ARTIST: Janick Lederlé (France, 1917-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bayanihan Filipino dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1971
    • COMMENTS: French watercolorist Janick Lederlé presented a portfolio of the Bayahihan dancers performing in Paris in 1971
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p5260

    p5260

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Revanche" (Revenge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Revanche" (Revenge) by Boris Kochno's Ballets des Champs-élysées; choreography by Ruth Page. First performed at the Théâtre de l'Empire, Paris, on 17/10/1951.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0280

    s0280

    • ARTIST: H. Binde (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From the winter festival of the students of the Berlin Arts Academy: Itinerant musicians (Vom Winterfest der Studirenden der berliner Kunstakademie: Fahrende spielleute)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, couple
  • s5434

    s5434

    • ARTIST: Serge Ivanoff (Russia, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Le quadrille des lanciers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1937
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille des lanciers
  • s1307

    s1307

    • ARTIST: A. Jiwer (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vera Nemchinova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 9.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Why not a British ballet?" by Anton Dolin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5777

    s5777

    • TITLE OF WORK: Seated flutist and girl dancing (Scène de danse. "Reliefs de Milo")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, terracotta
    • DATE: -455
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Regroupés en une série qui apparaît assez homogène, ces reliefs tirent leur nom de l'île de Mélos sur laquelle ils ont, en majorité, été trouvés et peut-être fabriqués. Datés entre environ 470 et 440
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Milos
    • KEYWORDS: teaching, girl
  • p2656

    p2656

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two female dancers (Zwei Tänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and wash
    • DATE: 1936
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 16.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p1572

    p1572

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer - Mary Wigman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.1 x 44.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p2046

    p2046

    • ARTIST: Yannis Moralis (Greece, 1916-2009)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes and stage design for the ballet "Six popular pictures" (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Six popular pictures" by the "Greek Choreodrama", Athens 1951. Music by Manos Hadjidakis, costumes and stage design by Yannis Moralis, choreography by Rallou Manou
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern, popular
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6956

    p6956

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Martin (France, 1659-1735) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a galant peasant
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4925

    p4925

    • ARTIST: E. Müller
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango under the dome (Le tango sous la coupole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,
  • s2661

    s2661

    • ARTIST: H. Linton (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The Devil's Biblots", presented at the Variety Theatre ("Les Biblots du Diable", représentés sur le théâtre des Variétés)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, stage, duo
  • p5336

    p5336

    • ARTIST: Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi in the ballet "Paquita"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1846
    • COMMENTS: "Paquita", a ballet created by Mazilier in April 1846
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • p4758

    p4758

    • ARTIST: Johann Gottlob Edinger (Germany, 1786-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The salt workers' dance in Schwäbisch-Hall (Tanz der Salzsieder in Schwäbisch-Hall)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 46.2 x 72 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5691

    p5691

    • ARTIST: Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (France, 1804-1860)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La jok - Vlach dance (La jok - danse vallaque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1837
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2258

    p2258

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Goulue entering the Moulin Rouge
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1892
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7859

    p7859

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.4 x 24.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3110

    s3110

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fourth study for "Death, our mother" (Quatrième étude pour "Notre mère la mort")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
  • s0084

    s0084

    • TITLE OF WORK: Love manouvres (Erotika gymnassia)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: military, music score cover
  • s1064

    s1064

    • ARTIST: Charles Samuel Keene (U.K., 1823-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A child's dream of twelfth night
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 23.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, stage
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s4195

    s4195

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serpentine dance (Serpentintanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo, serpentine, cabaret, music-hall
  • p7693

    p7693

    • TITLE OF WORK: Amusements of the negroes on the occasion of the Kings' festival (La Havane - Réjouissances des nègres à l'occasion de la fête des Rois)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.3 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cuba, Havana
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1772

    s1772

    • ARTIST: Franca Squarciapino (Italy, 1940-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1992
    • COMMENTS: "La bayadère", ballet by the Paris Opera, choreography by Rudelf Noureev, 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6523

    p6523

    • ARTIST: François-Rupert Carabin (France, 1862-1932) (sculptor); Dominique Zumbo (ceramist)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, ceramic with metallic varnish
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 52.5 x 55.7 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "Zumbo" and "R. Carabin"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • p6379

    p6379

    • ARTIST: Alfred Courmes (France, 1898-1993)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Judith and Holophernes (Judith et Holopherne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte
    • DATE: 1945
    • COMMENTS: One of a series of works
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: religion, military
  • s2355

    s2355

    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian folk print depicting Petrouchka dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4103

    p4103

    • ARTIST: Manuel Benedito (Spain, 1875-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cleo de Merode (Cléo de Mérode)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, ballet
  • p6330

    p6330

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball given on the trunk of a "sequoia gigantea" tree, at Calaveras Grove (Bal donné sur le tronc d'un "sequoia gigantea", de Calaveras Grove)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.9 x 14.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the book "Six mois aux états-Unis" by Albert Tissandier
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p7597

    p7597

    • TITLE OF WORK: Corn and Poppy Ballet from the pantomime "The forty thieves", Sydney
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • COMMENTS: Sydney, 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall, pantomime
  • p4561

    p4561

    • ARTIST: Jacques Kuijper (Netherlands, 1761-1808)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance around Liberty Tree at the Amsterdam Dam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1795
    • COMMENTS: On 19/01/1795 the people of Amsterdam erected a Liberty Tree to celebrate the alliance with revolutionary France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Netherlands, Amsterdam
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: tree
  • p9922

    p9922

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the Moulin de la Galette (Au Moulin de la Galette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 114 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "76"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7811

    p7811

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lubov Roudenko
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1939
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait

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