Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p1370

    p1370

    • ARTIST: Miguel Alcala
    • TITLE OF WORK: Juana Fernandez de los Reyes, Jerez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1987
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s5820

    s5820

    • TITLE OF WORK: Candelabrum with a male dancer. Bronze
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: -475
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 138.2 x 30 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair of nearly identical candelabra surmounted by a statuette of a "krotalistris," a male youth dancing and playing krotala (castanets). The candle-holder is supported on a tripod base formed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Vulci, Italy
  • p6425

    p6425

    • ARTIST: Jean-Antoine Watteau (France, 1684-1721)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Handsome Indifferent, or The Dancer (Le bel indifférent ou Le danseur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1715
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s3423

    s3423

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dionysos between two dancers; amphor vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at the necropole of Ialyssos, on the island of Rhodes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Dodecanese, Rhodes
    • DANCE FORM: popular,
    • KEYWORDS: religion, god
  • s5169

    s5169

    • ARTIST: Edouard-Frédéric Richter (France, 1844-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Moorish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 92 x 74 cm
    • COMMENTS: signed E. Richter 1877 (lower right)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: orient, women
  • s3942

    s3942

    • ARTIST: Pierre de Régnier "Tigre" (France, 1898-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in "Schéhérazade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink and color wash on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
  • p0593

    p0593

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple of dancers (Couple de danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p2737

    p2737

    • ARTIST: Antoine Le Nain (France, 1599?-1648), Louis Le Nain (1593?-1648) & Mathieu Le Nain (1607-1677)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The children's dance (La danse d'enfants)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1642
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p7672

    p7672

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "The seven sisters"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0849

    p0849

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two figures dancing round a deity
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: -1800
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Design from a polychrome plate in the Kamares style, found in the Old Palace of Phaistos
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Crete
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p7458

    p7458

    • TITLE OF WORK: The incomparable Ravel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic, chord
  • p6865

    p6865

    • ARTIST: François Flameng (France, 1856-1923) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.1 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7056

    p7056

    • ARTIST: John Collet (U.K., 1725?-1780) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cotillon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court, ballroom
  • p4319

    p4319

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le dieu bleu": Le Pèlerin (The Pilgrim)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor, gouache and silver on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 x 27.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3706

    p3706

    • ARTIST: Claude Lepape (France, 1913-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsal at the Moulin Rouge music-hall, Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s0924

    s0924

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fox Trot. An envelopping, caressing perfume (Fox Trot. Parfum enveloppant, caressant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: fox-trot, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement, publicity
  • p9407

    p9407

    • ARTIST: George Romney (U.K., 1734-1802)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lady Hamilton as a bacchante
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 30.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • p9781

    p9781

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A female dancer (Une danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 99 x 79 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1899
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4478

    p4478

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky - "Carnaval"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p1853

    p1853

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer in a mountain setting
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • p9184

    p9184

    • ARTIST: Kyra Markham (U.S.A., 1891-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nightclub
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1935
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.1 x 26.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2229

    p2229

    • ARTIST: Jean-Frederic Schall (France, 1752-1825)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mlle Duthé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1775
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5157

    p5157

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Norwegian "Spring waltz"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Display of Nirwegian national dancing in London by Norwegian refugees during the war
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s0247

    s0247

    • ARTIST: Ernst Hosang (Germany, 1857-after 1884) (sketch); O. Gerlach (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Berlin pictures: At the Ragamuffins' Bal (Berliner Bilder: Auf dem Lumpenball)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.4 x 33.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • p8234

    p8234

    • ARTIST: Ernesto Fontana (Italy, 1837-1918) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A magnet (Ein Magnet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.6 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • s0869

    s0869

    • ARTIST: C.S.R. (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An artist's character sketches in Berlin - The waltz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: waltz, ballroom, mixed couples, popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p5460

    p5460

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A popular ball of the people from Auvergne in Paris (Bal-musette auvergnat à Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Figure dite "tornijaire"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Auvergne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2119

    s2119

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Colonial Exhibition of Marseille. The dancers of king Sissowath at the Cambodia Pavillon (Exposition Coloniale de Marseille. Les danseuses du roi Sissowath au pavillon du Cambodge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 0
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
    • KEYWORDS: court
  • p5392

    p5392

    • TITLE OF WORK: The fiddler calls the tune
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9004

    p9004

    • TITLE OF WORK: A phase in the motion of a dancing-girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.8 x 5.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exhibition of the "Zoopraxiscope" of Eadweard Muybridge at the Royal Society, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K., California
  • s4483

    s4483

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Steche of the Zaporogue Cosacks (La "steche" des Kosaks Zaporogues)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.4 x 11.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for a travel book
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5568

    s5568

    • TITLE OF WORK: Church festival in Schwabia. Innkeepers and farmers, on dance floor or threshing floor were dancing for two days.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1861
  • p6028

    p6028

    • ARTIST: A. Van Pers (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masks for performing the Topping dance (Masques pour l'exécution de la danse du topping)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 3.5 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4666

    p4666

    • ARTIST: Pieter Codde (Netherlands, 1599-1678)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance company
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1633
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 76.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: The dance illustrated is probably a galliarde
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s0356

    s0356

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Suzanna and the Barber": Musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache, ink wash, white chalk and pencil on pink, white and black paper
    • DATE: 1956
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.9 x 95.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page. The ballet "Suzanna and the Barber" on music by Rossini arranged by Isaac Van Grove, choreography by Ruth Page and decors and costumes by Antoni Clavé, was first prod
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s6102

    s6102

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancing maenads
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -415
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 97 cm width
    • COMMENTS: From left to right: types 25, 32 and 34 of Hauser
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica
    • KEYWORDS: maenad
  • s0304

    s0304

    • ARTIST: Gustave Popelin (France, 1859-1937)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Terpsichore
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 220 x 107 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1884. Executed while Popelin was staying at the Villa Medici in Rome. The model was probably a Sicilian girl called Angela, the lover of Claude Debussy, a friend of the artist.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, France
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity, muse
  • p9271

    p9271

    • TITLE OF WORK: Don Cossacks at the International Horticultural Exhibition
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exhibition situated between Earl's Court Station and West Brompton. The Cossacks of the Russian Caucasus, famous military horsemen, under command of their Hetman, Prince Ivan Makharadze, perform feats
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Caucasus
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • p3251

    p3251

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Adage - Romeo and Juliet (Adage - Roméo et Juliette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9498

    p9498

    • TITLE OF WORK: New Year's dancers. Japanese wood sculptures (Neujahrstänzer. Japanische Holzsculpturen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0489

    s0489

    • ARTIST: Hermann Lüders (Germany, 1836-1908) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebrations for the golden wedding of the royal couple of Sachsen: Court ball on 11/11/1872 (Die Feier der Goldenen Hochzeit des sächsischen Königspaars: Der Hofball am 11. November)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.3 x 35.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Sachsen
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, court, ball
  • s1717

    s1717

    • ARTIST: Bob Mackie (U.S.A., 1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Blue suede shoes"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1996
    • COMMENTS: For the production by the Cleveland Ballet, choreographed by Dennis Nahat
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1395

    p1395

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance couple (Tanzpaar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, feather, wax chalks
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • s3371

    s3371

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ivory plaquette
    • DATE: 1100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Fatimide period in Egypt
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s0556

    s0556

    • TITLE OF WORK: The fictional adventures of an Artois count (Les aventures romanesques d'un comte d'Artois)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 6 x 5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from the book by Mme Hurtrel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p7578

    p7578

    • ARTIST: Edvard Lehmann (Denmark, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Johanne Luise Heiberg, Schou and August Bournonville in the ballet "Nina, or The girl driven mad by love"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1834
    • COMMENTS: "Nina, or The girl driven mad by love", a ballet choreographed by August Bournonville; scenario by Milon; The Royal Theater, Copenhagen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p2316

    p2316

    • ARTIST: Bartolomeo Pinelli (Italy, 1781-1835)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The carnival in Rome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte
    • DATE: 1811
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p0611

    p0611

    • TITLE OF WORK: Siva or the sitting dance (Der Siva oder Sitztanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Samoa Islands
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5598

    s5598

    • TITLE OF WORK: Terracotta statuette of a dancing girl. Terracotta, Greek, Corinthian
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Female dancer, toes touching base, propped up by support in back. Right foot advanced, right arm raised, left hand on hip. Wearing a flaring, striped headdress (a kalathiskos) with two fillets falling
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Corinthian
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: kalathiskos
  • p6712

    p6712

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sudanese in the Egyptian café (Les Soudanais au café égyptien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 21.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental

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