Dance History Gallery

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  • p5470

    p5470

    • TITLE OF WORK: Square dance in the United States
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1840
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, square dance
  • p4288

    p4288

    • ARTIST: Thomas Rowlandson (U.K., 1756-1827)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The last jig, or Adieu to Old England
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1818
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, jig
  • p0443

    p0443

    • ARTIST: Käthe Kollwitz (Germany, 1867-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance round the guillotine (Tanz um die Guillotine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 57 x 41 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: politics
  • s5259

    s5259

    • ARTIST: Gaspare Diziani (Italy, 1689-1767)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The triumph of David
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1510
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Compare with similar works
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Israel, antiquity
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, religion, Bible,
  • p6518

    p6518

    • ARTIST: François-Rupert Carabin (France, 1862-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 21 x 14 cm
    • COMMENTS: Part of a series of Loïe Fuller statuettes, which the artist kept till his death. Only 4 or 5 copies were made of each. The sculptor invited the dancer to his studio where he sketched her in various p
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • s4707

    s4707

    • ARTIST: Gustave Alaux (France, 1887-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A joyful call of port (Joyeuse escale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.5 x 60.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Antilles, West Indies
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9679

    p9679

    • ARTIST: Alexander Kircher (Austria/Germany, 1867-1939) (sketch); E. Limmer (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball on board the Austrian admiral ship "Crown prince Rudolf" in the harbour of Kiel on 20/09/1890.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.1 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Germany, Kiel
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military, navy, sea, ship
  • p0326

    p0326

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer bowing with a bouquet (Danseuse au bouquet saluant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel, and probabaly gouache
    • DATE: 1877
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72 x 77.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9342

    p9342

    • ARTIST: Richard Bloos (Germany, 1878-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball (Le bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 67 x 92 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p8160

    p8160

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Cremorne Gardens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1847
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7251

    p7251

    • TITLE OF WORK: Backstage of the Opera at the Grévin Museum (Les coulisses de l'Opéra au Musée Grévin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, ballet
  • s1157

    s1157

    • ARTIST: Charles Vernier (France, 1813-1892) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The chaumière, a sentimental quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, chaumière, ballroom
  • s1893

    s1893

    • ARTIST: Leonard P. Dowd (U.K., 1900?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Diaghileff's Russian Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: An artist's inpression of three ballets presented at the Coliseum, LOndon
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3060

    s3060

    • TITLE OF WORK: La Grisi. Carlotta Grisi in the ballet "La Péri" (La Grisi. Carlotta Grisi in the ballet "La Péri")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • s4438

    s4438

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, collage, soft pencil
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p2765

    p2765

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Drawing on "Schéhérazade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1459

    s1459

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball given in honor of the first cruise of the "Friends of the cruises" on board the "Paris", in the Feasts' Hall with a luminous floor
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.2 x 31.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ship, sea
  • p7386

    p7386

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Madame Madeleine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1904
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left "F. A. Kaulbach / 1904"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p4392

    p4392

    • TITLE OF WORK: Five dervishes, two tambourine players, one flutist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, illumination, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1635
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The Mughal Empire, Mughliyah Saltanat or Mogul Empire (1526-1857)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Mughal, Persia (?)
    • DANCE FORM: worship
    • KEYWORDS: dervishes
  • s5297

    s5297

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Nikolaevich Avvakumov (Russia, 1938-) & O. A. Volkova (Russia)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nutcracker ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1980
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p3214

    p3214

    • ARTIST: Boris M. Froedman-Cluzel
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mademoiselle Lozeron as Franz in the ballet "Coppélia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, brown patina
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Paris 910"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1771

    p1771

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Ivan Valberkh, dance master
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p6417

    p6417

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Néréide (water nymph)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9710

    p9710

    • ARTIST: R. Koch (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Schwälmer dance (Schwälmer Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: From this year's assembly of the German Anthropological Society
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: Schwälmer, traditional, couple
  • p4332

    p4332

    • ARTIST: Stanislao Lepri (Italy, 1905-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Composition for the ballet "Le bal des blanchisseuses"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1946
    • COMMENTS: "Le bal des blanchisseuses", theme by Boris Kochno, music by Vernon Duke, sets and costumes by Stanislao Lepri, choreography by Roland Petit; Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées, 1947.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8652

    p8652

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7511

    p7511

    • ARTIST: Majeska
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4379

    p4379

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Melle Lany as Phrygienne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8922

    p8922

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le festin": Mazurka Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink, pen, watercolor, blanc de céruse and wash on paper
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: "Le festin", dance suite on music by various Russian composers; choreography by M. Petipa, A. Gorsky, M. Fokine etc. Décors by C. Korovine from the first act of the opera "Rousslan and Loudmilla" in t
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, mazurka
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0162

    s0162

    • ARTIST: Hermann Loeschin (Germany, 1816-1872)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village festival (Dorffest)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 73 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s5875

    s5875

    • ARTIST: The Painter of London (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Men dancing. Attic red-figure kylix vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figured kylix vase
    • DATE: -435
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.4 x 27.3 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Two scenes. Pottery: red-figured kylix. Interior: Within a circle consisting of sets of four maeanders separated by red cross squares, Theseus (?) with the bull of Marathon. The bull springs to right,
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • s0616

    s0616

    • TITLE OF WORK: The British Volunteers in Ghent. Union and fraternity, heep! heep! hooray!
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 11.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s2049

    s2049

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "Easter dance" by Costas Crystallis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p7456

    p7456

    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebrations for the Suez Canal - Inauguration of the Cairo Circus (Fêtes de l'isthme de Suez - Inauguration du Cirque du Caire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: The troupe of Théodore Raney inaugurates the Cairo circus, in the presence of the khedive
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, France
    • KEYWORDS: circus
  • s5915

    s5915

    • TITLE OF WORK: Piping and dancing Satyr, 300-100 BC. Bronze figurine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Found in Alexandria (?), Egypt
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Hellenistic
  • p5292

    p5292

    • ARTIST: Bror Hjorth (Sweden, 1894-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance group (Dansgrupp)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1959
    • DIMENSIONS: 180 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p7749

    p7749

    • TITLE OF WORK: The romantic ballerina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4487

    s4487

    • ARTIST: Tybalt
    • TITLE OF WORK: Last news. Loie Fuller, Caroline Otero (Dernières nouvelles. Loie Fuller, Caroline Otero)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, color, cartoon
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.2 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: Otero, castanets
  • p0226

    p0226

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Loges festival, at Saint-Germain en-Laye (La fête des Loges, à Saint-Germain en-Laye)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p6288

    p6288

    • ARTIST: Erich Heckel (Germany, 1883-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers in Hamburg (Hamburger Tänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 19.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7936

    p7936

    • ARTIST: Rafael Landivar (Guatemala, 1731-1793)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flying game. Flying pole dancers. (Volantum ludus)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p2727

    p2727

    • ARTIST: Carl Weber (Germany, 1850-1921)
    • TITLE OF WORK: I only wanted to dance! (Tanzen möcht' ich!)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p2504

    p2504

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mariano Camprubi and Dolores Serral in "Pas Styrien"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1834
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris, Théâtre du Palais Royal
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8180

    p8180

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": The Sevillana in the last scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed: les ronds noirs en velours
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8872

    p8872

    • ARTIST: Sergei Soudeikin (Russia, 1882-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La tragédie de Salomé" (The tragedy of Salome): Salome (danced by Tamara Karsavina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "La tragédie de Salomé", choreographed by Boris Romanov. Russian season of Serge Diaghiliv, Paris 1913.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, costume
  • s3737

    s3737

    • ARTIST: Sir William Russell Flint (U.K., 1880-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Antoinella dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brown chalk on paper
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.2 x 42cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed 'WRussell Flint' at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, flamenco, Spanish dance?
  • p3669

    p3669

    • ARTIST: T. Tréjelan (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of today: The cake-walk (Danse d'aujourd'hui: le cake-walk)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 11.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Danses d'autrefois, d'aujourd'hui, de demain" by H de Rive.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cakewalk, couple
  • p4503

    p4503

    • ARTIST: Markos Zarikos (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cretan dance (Kritikos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, tempera
    • DATE: 1993
    • DIMENSIONS: 70 x 100 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Ta choreftika", published in a booklet for the New Year 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, kritikos
  • p6038

    p6038

    • ARTIST: Adalbert Trillhaase (Germany, 1858-1936)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance around the golden calf (Der Tanz um das goldene Kalb)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p4871

    p4871

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Hen (La Poule)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper engraving, colored
    • DATE: 1915
    • COMMENTS: Plate no. 43 of the series "Bon genre", published by Pierre de la Mesangère, Paris 1801-1817. The six figures of the French quadrille were to be danced in the following order: Le Pantalon, L'Eté, La P
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: animal

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