Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p1496

    p1496

    • ARTIST: Luigi Mayer (Italy, 1755-1803)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants' dance (Danse des paysans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 x 55 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8750

    p8750

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Krishna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • s0679

    s0679

    • ARTIST: W. Parkinson junior (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four wonderful ball room improvements
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p3859

    p3859

    • ARTIST: Innocente Migliavacca (Italy active ca. 1854) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance festival of the Camacani (Festa da ballo di Camacani)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.2 x 15.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Europa vol. iV, tavola 55
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5724

    s5724

    • TITLE OF WORK: Headband made of gold plate. A diadem picturing a circular dance by women (Stirnband aus Goldblech: Frauenreigen. Diadem (Schmuck)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, gold headband (diadem)
    • DATE: -700
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 3.5 x 15.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Found in Corinth, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Corinth
    • DANCE FORM: circular
  • p7929

    p7929

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ornamental dancer from Mixtec
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, manuscript illumination
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
  • p3817

    p3817

    • ARTIST: Juan Gorostiza Gongueta (Spain, 1897-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Pavlova (La Pavlova)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, enamel
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2013

    s2013

    • ARTIST: Léonard-Agathon van Wydeveld (France, 1841-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of the "shawl cover" (Danseuse du "Surtout de l'écharpe")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, hard porcelain
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Sèvres
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p9247

    p9247

    • TITLE OF WORK: Holy Week fêtes in Seville cathedral: the dance before the high altar in presence of the archbishop
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, child, church
  • p5580

    p5580

    • ARTIST: Jules Breton (France, 1827-1906)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saint John's day (La Saint-Jean)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1875
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9051

    p9051

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer at rest (Danseuse au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the signature and with the foundry mark
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p4626

    p4626

    • ARTIST: Johannes Esaias Nilson (Germany, 1721-1788)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scenes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p0867

    p0867

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Mercure": Polichinelle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and charcoal on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 23.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Mercure", ballet in three scenes, by the Ballets Russes, 1924. Music by Eric Satie; story and choreography by Leonid Massine; curtain, décors and costumes by Pablo Picasso
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1710

    p1710

    • ARTIST: Kano Naganobu (Japan, 1577-1654)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The blooming cherry festival. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, paper screen
    • DATE: 1630
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 149.1 x 352.2 cm total
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3442

    s3442

    • ARTIST: Titsa Chrysochoidi (Greece, 1906-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, copper
    • DATE: 1966
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, circle
  • p4917

    p4917

    • TITLE OF WORK: Final Scene of the 1st act of the ballet "The Peri" (Schlussscene des 1 Actes aus dem Ballet "Die Peri")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5597

    p5597

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene. Frontispiece of "Canzoni a ballo"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1540
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • s2586

    s2586

    • TITLE OF WORK: Serenade and hand-kissing at New Year's eve (Aubade et baise-main de la veille du jour de l'an)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 23.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage de l'Océan Pacifique à l'Océan Atlantique" by Paul Marcoy, 1846-1860
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: candles
  • p5525

    p5525

    • ARTIST: G. Schauer (photograph); G. Hever & Kirms (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the seraglio
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 21.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
  • p1261

    p1261

    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival at Athens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1801
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 40.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1902

    s1902

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924) (watercolor painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Le Roi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 21.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Léon Bakst dans le Ballet Russe" by Jacques-Emile Blanche
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1802

    s1802

    • ARTIST: Charles Payzant (Canada, 1898-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The American Dancer" magazine cover, 06/1927
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: female
  • p2362

    p2362

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers (Danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 60.5 x 63.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Auctioned at Sotheby's on 13/05/1997 for 11 million $
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0051

    p0051

    • ARTIST: Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (U.K., 1880-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Night
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1926
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K., Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s4706

    s4706

    • ARTIST: Hallet
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tutsi dancers (Danseurs tutsi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 70 x 81 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8773

    p8773

    • ARTIST: Smyth (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The grand "pas des élémens", at Her Majesty's Theatre. Rosati, Carlotta Grisi, Cerito
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, England, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, trio, pas de trois
  • s2998

    s2998

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Louis Flouquet (Belgium, 1900-1967) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design by Lernand Léger for the ballet "La création di monde" by Blaise Cendrars and Darius Milhaud (Décor de Lernand Léger pour "La création di monde" de Blaise Cendrars et Darius Milhaud)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lino engraving
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: sets
  • p7211

    p7211

    • ARTIST: Aimé Nicolas Morot (France, 1850-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: French dances through the ages (Les danses françaises à travers les âges)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Project for the ceiling of the City Hall of Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, ballroom, popular
  • s4214

    s4214

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Germany, Palestine
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • s4137

    s4137

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girls. Section of a frieze
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble from Thassos
    • DATE: -340
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.4 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Part of the the frieze ran around the entire building of the Propylon to Temenos. This part was used as a support of the altar table in the chapel of Saint Nicholas at Ano Meria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Samothrace
    • DANCE FORM: line, procession
  • s3976

    s3976

    • ARTIST: Costas Klouvatos (Greece, 1923-2007)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketch for a relief for a monument to be erected at the Kynidaros village of the island of Naxos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Costas Klouvatos is a painter and sculptor from the village of Kynidaros
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Cyclades Islands, Naxos, Kynidaros
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, round, circular, circle
  • p9517

    p9517

    • ARTIST: Jules Joseph Lefebvre (France, 1836-1911)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Diana
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 207 x 109.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p5875

    p5875

    • ARTIST: Nathaniel Currier (U.S.A., 1813-1888) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Shakers' meeting near Lebanon, Pennsylvania
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Pennsylvania
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5725

    p5725

    • TITLE OF WORK: Old English May pole dance. No. 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, steel engraving
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 11.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5258

    p5258

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky after dancing "Le spectre de la rose"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8209

    p8209

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Soleil de nuit" (Midnight sun). The Sun (danced by Leonid Massine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, collage, gouache, paper on carton, fine layer of laquer
    • DATE: 1915
    • COMMENTS: First performance at the Grand Theatre, Geneva, on 20/12/1915; choreography by Massine; music by Rimsky-Korsakov
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery, costume
  • s3172

    s3172

    • TITLE OF WORK: The satyrical dance Kordax (Der satyrische Reigen Kordax)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, from a vase
    • DATE: -300
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: From an ancient Greek vase
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Kordax ancient Greek dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, comic, satirical, theatrical
  • p2225

    p2225

    • TITLE OF WORK: Decorated fan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s3480

    s3480

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sunday at Saint Cloud (Le dimanche à Saint-Cloud)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: duo, popular
  • p2614

    p2614

    • ARTIST: Aristide Maillol (France, 1861-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • p2612

    p2612

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Kainer (Germany, 1885-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in "L'après-midi d'un faun"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4503

    s4503

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figurines of female dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, clay, statuette, figurine
    • DATE: -285
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at Abdera, Thrace
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Thrave, Abdera
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular
  • s3157

    s3157

    • ARTIST: Giorgos Sikeliotis (Greece, 1917-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pontian dance (Pontiakos choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, aceton on paper
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 122 x 85 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Pontos, Black Sea, Turkey, Lazistan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9881

    p9881

    • TITLE OF WORK: The latest folly (La folie du jour)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, colors on glass
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: After a painting by Louis Boilly
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s5551

    s5551

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le pavillon d'Armide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1907
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Michel Fokine
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5785

    p5785

    • ARTIST: William Heysham Overend (U.K., 1851-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sir Roger de Coverley
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p6658

    p6658

    • ARTIST: Maurice Biais (France, 1872-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Folies-Bergère" every evening ("Folies-Bergère" tous les soirs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • p7558

    p7558

    • ARTIST: Joseph Stieler (Germany, 1781-1858)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1847
    • COMMENTS: Painted in Munich
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s3227

    s3227

    • TITLE OF WORK: … then the king ordered female slaves to entertain her with songs and play with her in order to make speak…
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from "A thousand and one nights" in German
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
  • p4122

    p4122

    • TITLE OF WORK: A farandole danced in the presence of Their Majesties in the amphitheater of Arles
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: After a photograph taken from the album offered to the emperor by Mr Roman
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, farandole

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