Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p0367

    p0367

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fan: The ballet (Eventail: Le ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, India ink, silver and gold paint on silk
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.6 x 54 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3670

    s3670

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky at the beach of Lido
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1909
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage, portrait
  • p1048

    p1048

    • ARTIST: John Reinhard Weguelin (U.K., 1849-1927) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Eastertide or Pyrrhic dance at Megara
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.8 x 47.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Megara
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0820

    p0820

    • TITLE OF WORK: Poster for "Olive chez les nègres"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, poster
    • DATE: 1926
    • COMMENTS: The Théâtre des Champs Elysées when it was hosting music-hall reviews.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p3291

    p3291

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko, the dance of dances
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on beige paper
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 17.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • s6088

    s6088

    • ARTIST: The Kalathiskos Painter (Greece).
    • TITLE OF WORK: South-Italian, Lucanian red-figure bell-krater. A. Dancers wearing the kalathiskos (1 woman and 2 men)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure bell krater vase
    • DATE: -395
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 cm
    • COMMENTS: Found in Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
  • s3575

    s3575

    • ARTIST: Miklòs Izsò (Hungary, 1831-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing peasant, No. 7
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
  • p1552

    p1552

    • ARTIST: Karl Wilhelm von Heydeck (Germany, 1788-1861) (drawing); Fr. Hohe (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek warriors resting by the Temple of Apollo in Ancient Corinth
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 49 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Corinth
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2039

    p2039

    • ARTIST: Nicos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas (Greece, 1906-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Drawing for "The cursed serpent"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "The Cursed Serpent" by the "Greek Choreodrama", Athens 1951. Music by Manos Hadjidakis, costumes by N. Hadjikyriakou-Ghika, choreography by Rallou Manou
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s3432

    s3432

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7688

    p7688

    • ARTIST: Mariano Andréü
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "Don Juan"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5063

    p5063

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. La folie d'amour (Love's folly)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1936
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p5522

    p5522

    • ARTIST: Richard Caton Woodville (U.K., 1856-1927) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance before the king of the Sofas in West Africa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.7 x 23.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: West Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7642

    p7642

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folk-lore dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p9916

    p9916

    • ARTIST: Vicente Campesino y Mingo (Spain, 1800?-1900?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dual
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 45 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "94" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p9224

    p9224

    • ARTIST: Joseph Marie Thomas Lambeaux (Belgium, 1852-1908)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young man and woman dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze with red-brown and green patination
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed Jef. Lambeux van Antwerpen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo, couple
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p0187

    p0187

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Cléopâtre": Syrian Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache, pencil and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 67.5 x 49 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Cléopâtre" (Cleopatra), 1909, Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris. Music by Anton Arensky and other Russian composers.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris, Syria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0937

    p0937

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing (Isadora dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and wash on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 54.8 x 37.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s4876

    s4876

    • ARTIST: Komala Varadan (India, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Narthaki - Odissi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1999
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Narthaki, Odissi, solo, traditional, Indian
  • s3333

    s3333

    • ARTIST: René Jeandelle (France, 1883-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vase Loïe Fuller vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, sandstone (grès cérame), vase, statuette
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Marked "Céramique Rambervillers"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: light, veils, drapery
  • s2354

    s2354

    • TITLE OF WORK: Olga Lepeshinska?a as political worker
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sketch, cartoon
    • DATE: 1958
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p7493

    p7493

    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1515
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1202

    s1202

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball given on 19 January 1850 for the benefit of the poor of the 3d and 7th sections of Paris, in the hall of Saint Cecilia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p5334

    p5334

    • ARTIST: Tyko Sallinen (Finland, 1879-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Thursday dance (Lördagsdans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 57 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p4554

    p4554

    • ARTIST: Jean Barthélémy Pascal (Germany, 1774-1853)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sedate dance with singing (Getretener singreigen). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.7 x 62 cm
    • COMMENTS: The village church of Pankow is seen in the background, in the outskirts of Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2835

    s2835

    • ARTIST: Edouard-Marie Guillaume Dubufe (France, 1853-1909) (painting); H. Dochy (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the Opera (A l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.3 x 21.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9242

    p9242

    • TITLE OF WORK: Final scene from "Satanella", fantastic ballet by Paul Taglioni (Schlussscene aus "Satanella", phantastisches Ballet von Paul Taglioni)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 23.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4627

    p4627

    • ARTIST: Johann Elias Ridinger (Germany, 1698-1767)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance with the rhythm (Tanz nach der Cadence)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p5891

    p5891

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Khmer art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
  • p4066

    p4066

    • ARTIST: Adriaen van der Werff (Netherlands, 1659-1722)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance class (Tanzstunde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1718
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Flanders, Holland, Belgium,
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p0422

    p0422

    • ARTIST: Edouard-Frédéric Richter (France, 1844-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dancer (Danseuse orientale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo, traditional
  • p7513

    p7513

    • ARTIST: Thomas E. Mails (U.S.A., 1920-2001
    • TITLE OF WORK: Traditional powwow dancer Ellis Head
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Sioux Indians
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, sun dance
  • s0693

    s0693

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two of the King's dancing girls. The Zulu War
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 11.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: South Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p9471

    p9471

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: "Les noces", choreographic scenes with songs, in four scenes. Music and story by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by B. Nijinska; decors and costumes by Natalia Goncharova
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1042

    s1042

    • TITLE OF WORK: The firemen's festival: New Year's day at the Metropolitan Headquarters
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 22.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: hornpipe, step, popular
  • p0182

    p0182

    • ARTIST: George Kastriotis (Greece, 1899-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1953
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • s0136

    s0136

    • ARTIST: Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé (France, 1800-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The jig
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 24.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: jig, solo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p1209

    p1209

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three ritual dancers II
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ceramic, colored
    • DATE: 300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Mexico, Ancient, Aztec
    • KEYWORDS: Aztec
  • p3151

    p3151

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a demon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1690
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8035

    p8035

    • ARTIST: Emile-Othon Friesz (France, 1879-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from a ballet - The tarantella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and colored crayon
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, ballet
  • s4890

    s4890

    • ARTIST: H. Kurteva (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor (?)
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes,
  • p8344

    p8344

    • TITLE OF WORK: Opening of the new drill-hall of the Mid Lothian Artillery Volunteers, Edinburgh
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.2 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2712

    p2712

    • ARTIST: J. M. W. Turner (U.K., 1775-1851)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Golden Bough
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1834
    • DIMENSIONS: 104.1 x 163.8
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • s2791

    s2791

    • ARTIST: Paul Pascal (France, 1832-1903)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A fire of joy in Britanny (Feu de joie en Bretagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1904
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: fire
  • s3741

    s3741

    • ARTIST: Louis de Savignac (France, 1734-1759)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures dancing in a landscape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, bodycolor on board, wood
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.2 x 5.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed 'Savignac
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round, circle
  • p7680

    p7680

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene with dancers and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry, wool, carpet
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 112 x 90 cm
    • COMMENTS: Kashan carpet
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1149

    s1149

    • ARTIST: Frank Dadd (U.K., 1851-1929) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Amusements in camp: a Kaffir dance during a quiet day
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.7 x 30.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: South Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: stick, military
  • s3686

    s3686

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Los caprichos"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1946
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costumes
  • s0009

    s0009

    • ARTIST: Claude Michel "Clodion" (France, 1738-1814) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A pair of dancing putti
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, dark brown patina, on swept bronze socles
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 and 25 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s5261

    s5261

    • ARTIST: Raoul Larche (France, 1860-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lamp base featuring the American dancer Loie Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze lamp
    • DATE: 1900
    • COMMENTS: Art Nouveau
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: drapery

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