Dance History Gallery

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  • p1914

    p1914

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • s0872

    s0872

    • ARTIST: Arthur Hopkins (U.K., 1848-1930) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: After the ball: Comparing programmes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.3 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p9168

    p9168

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "Le tricorne", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by M. de Falla, composed for the pantomime by Martinez-Sierra. Scenario by Serge Diaghilev after the play "Le tricorne" by Alarc
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9206

    p9206

    • ARTIST: Albert Bloch (U.S.A., 1882-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Red devil and dancing figures (Roter Teufel und tanzende Figuren)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 77.6 x 90.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed with the monogram. Painted in Munich around 1912-1913.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany, Munich
  • p0330

    p0330

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at the barre (Danseuses à la barre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, essence and sepia on green paper
    • DATE: 1873
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.4 x 62.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: exercise
  • p5282

    p5282

    • ARTIST: Nils Jakob Blommér (Sweden, 1816-1853)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Extended elves
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 115 x 143 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Sweden,
  • s0360

    s0360

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Decor design for the ballet "Suzanna and the Barber"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache, watercolor, India ink and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1956
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.5 x 56.5 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: scenery
  • s2228

    s2228

    • ARTIST: C. P. Sainton (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A buttefly
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.2 x 9.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the exhibition of his studies in silver-point at the Burlington Gallery, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5075

    s5075

    • ARTIST: Tórtola Valencia (Spain, 1882-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tortola Valencia - self-portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1940
    • COMMENTS: From the album of autographs of Angeles Magret-Vila. Dated 14/09/1940
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p4581

    p4581

    • TITLE OF WORK: Witches' dance (Hexentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1580
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The witches are seen dancing with the devil
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p0030

    p0030

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's round dance (La ronde d'enfants)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 56.5 x 38 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at higher left "Picasso"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5276

    p5276

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folk Dance Theater. Jubilee program (Folkloristisch Danstheater. Jubileumprogramma)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1987
    • COMMENTS: Sradsschouwburg Amsterdam 19/09/1987
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p6644

    p6644

    • ARTIST: Thierry Bosquet (Belgium, 1937-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Farewell performance by Yvette Chauviré as Giselle with the Ballet of the Paris Opera (Les adieux de Yvette Chauviré. Giselle. Le Ballet de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1972
    • COMMENTS: Farewell performance of Yvette Chauviré at the Paris Opera
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4994

    p4994

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mexican Ballet Season. Mexican Dance Academy (Temporada de Ballet Mexicano. Academia de la Danza Mexicana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1953
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, in 1953.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0807

    s0807

    • TITLE OF WORK: A variety artist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.3 x 10.6
    • COMMENTS: In Nakualofa. From "Memoranda of a round-about tour" by Mary Stuart Boyd and A. S. Boyd
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Tonga, Polynesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, female, solo
  • p4890

    p4890

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Schottisch
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s0248

    s0248

    • ARTIST: Karl Storch (Germany, 1864-1954) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Alpine Festival of the Berlin Section of the German and Austrian Alpine Association (Vom Alpenfest der Section Berlin des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenvereins)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.2 x 19.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin, Alps, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • s1276

    s1276

    • ARTIST: Frank Craig (U.K., 1874-1918) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Performance of Ben Jonson's "Sad shepherd": the Morris dance at the end of the play
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 22.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Entertainment by the Elizabethan Stage Society at Fulham Palace
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, Morris, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p2481

    p2481

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bouvier
    • TITLE OF WORK: The "pas des déesses" from the ballet "Le jugement de Pâris". Arthur Saint-Léon, Fanny Cerrito, Marie Taglioni, Lucile Grahn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1846
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Denmark, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4377

    p4377

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Solange Schwartz and Serge Lifar in "Le chevalier et la damoiselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3821

    s3821

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: 22H Merce Cuningham Ba;;et Company "Arles event" création (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s0349

    s0349

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Revanche" (Revenge): A Gypsy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache, ink wash, white chalk, collage of papers on black paper
    • DATE: 1951
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.5 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2675

    s2675

    • ARTIST: J.-I.-I. Gérard or Jean-Jacques Grandville (France, 1803-1847)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tarantella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • COMMENTS: Reproduced in "La lettura, rivista mensile de "Il corriere de la sera", 5/9. Milano, 1905.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, tarantella
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s2979

    s2979

    • ARTIST: Marcel-Louis Baugniet (Belgium, 1896-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for a dance costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9299

    p9299

    • ARTIST: P. Collini
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the seven veils
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas, laid down on board
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 x 99 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, solo
  • p0919

    p0919

    • ARTIST: Jean-Paul Lafitte (France, 18??-19??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1909
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s1084

    s1084

    • ARTIST: P. G. Mathews (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gaiety, "Anitra's dance" (Maud Allan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of Miss Maud Allan's performances inspired by Grieg's "Peer Gynt" suite, which also inspired the wild "Dance of the gnomes"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Canada
    • DANCE FORM: stage, modern, solo
  • s1390

    s1390

    • ARTIST: Lucien Maillol (France, 1896-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers seated (Deux danseuses assises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1927
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited in the Autumn Salon, Paris 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, stage
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p5489

    p5489

    • ARTIST: Prosper-Guillaume Dartiguenave (France, 1815-1885) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mrs Lola Montez, after a pastel painting by M. Dartiguenave (Sennora Lola Montez, nach einem Pastelgemälde von M. Dartiguenave)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 9.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • p3526

    p3526

    • ARTIST: Oliver Messel (U.K., 1904-1978)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Homage to the Queen" by the Sadler's Wells Ballet - Covent Garden
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1953
    • COMMENTS: "Homage to the Queen", the Coronation Ballet. Music by Malcoln Arnold, scenery and costumes by Oliver Messel, choreography by Frederick Ashton. First performance Covent Garden 02/06/1953.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0600

    s0600

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Kalmyk horde: Dance (Die Kalmückenhorde: Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Kalmyk of Kalmuck are Mongol people living in the south of Russia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Kalmyk, Kalmuck, Mongol
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s3763

    s3763

    • ARTIST: A. Barouskos (Greece, 18??-19??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bear dancing in Athens (Arktos orchoumeni en Athinais)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 96.5 x 68 cm.
    • COMMENTS: The Tower of the Winds is shown the background
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: animal, bear
  • s2750

    s2750

    • ARTIST: Françoise Oury "Bangor" (Belgium, 1905-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A monster, in Pastoral Symphony - 1 (Un monstre, dans Symphonie Pastorale - 1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1949
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8399

    p8399

    • TITLE OF WORK: The belly dance (La danse du ventre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the story "L'aventure singulière du beau Noureddin et de la douce Morgiane"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, belly dance, solo
  • s5634

    s5634

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marble votive relief showing three nymphs dancing in a cave before a mask of their father, Acheloös; inscription
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, plaque, traces of paint
    • DATE: -300
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.65 x 50.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Made and found in Athens
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: hand-hold from dress
  • p8747

    p8747

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
    • DATE: 600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Period of the Six Dynasties
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
  • p2607

    p2607

    • ARTIST: Arthur Grunenberg (Germany, 1886-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina in "L'oiseau de feu" (2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7598

    p7598

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Leopold Family in the pantomime "Dick Whittington" at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1857
    • COMMENTS: Melbourne, 1857
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall, pantomime
  • s0322

    s0322

    • ARTIST: John Heaviside or Waterloo Clark (U.K., 1771?-1836)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor over pencil
    • DATE: 1813
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: Numbered on border "no 7". Engraved in: Field Sposrts... of the inhabitants of New South Wales supplement, no. 107. No. 7, October 1813. The drawings by Clark may be taken from original sketches made
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia, New South Wales
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Aborigene
  • p2859

    p2859

    • ARTIST: E. Penaudin (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In Basque Country (Au Pays Basque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1983
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk, Spanish dance
  • p6193

    p6193

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Paulette Dynalix in "Mirage" (Paulette Dynalix dans "Mirage")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4375

    s4375

    • TITLE OF WORK: Solo female ballet dancer in Oriental dance pose
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Belarus,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo, Oriental
  • s6073

    s6073

    • TITLE OF WORK: BD: Komos, women and youths dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure lekythos vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • s4564

    s4564

    • TITLE OF WORK: Four four-armed goddesses dancing and playing musical instruments
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, gilt-bronze panel
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.4 x 38.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Possibly from the Densatil Monastery
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Tibet
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity, divinity
  • s0641

    s0641

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Court in the Highlands - The Gillie Ball: The piper
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.7 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes,
  • p8289

    p8289

    • ARTIST: Michael William Sharp (U.K, 1776?-1840) (painting); Robert Cooper (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maria Mercandotti in the ballet "Cendrillon"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2306

    p2306

    • ARTIST: Edgard Derouet (France, 1910-2001)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Willy Forst in "Opérette" (Willy Forst dans Opérette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1941
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poster for the Austrian film, directed by Willy Forst, starring Willy Forst and Maria Holst.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • s5006

    s5006

    • TITLE OF WORK: Yoruba dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Nigeria, Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5467

    p5467

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Thérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3650

    p3650

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Charleston Mad", Moulin Rouge music-hall, Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1926
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Une revue Mistinguett de Fred Mélé et Clifford Gray
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, charleston

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