Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4005

    s4005

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Hawaiian hula, complete in 10 easy lessons
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hawaii, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: hula, traditional, popular
  • p7503

    p7503

    • 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
  • s5158

    s5158

    • ARTIST: Annibale Carracci (Italy, 1560-1609)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Triumphal procession of Bacchus and Ariadne (Triumphzug von Bacchus und Ariadne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, ancient
    • KEYWORDS: Ariadne, Bacchus
  • p4688

    p4688

    • TITLE OF WORK: Minuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1734
    • COMMENTS: From the book by Pierre Rameau "Le maître à danser", Paris, 1734.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, minuet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p3058

    p3058

    • ARTIST: E. F. Rochat
    • TITLE OF WORK: Porters' dance (Danse de hamals)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul
  • p0102

    p0102

    • ARTIST: James Rosenquist (U.S.A., 1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The promenade of Merce Cunningham
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1963
    • DIMENSIONS: 152.4 x 177.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7571

    p7571

    • ARTIST: Alexandra Exter (Russia, 1882-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Night on Bald Mountain": Bronislava Nijinska
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1925
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "La nuit sur le Mont Chauve" (Night on Bald Mountain), the third act from the opera "La foire de Sorotchintzi" originally choreographed by Nijinska for the Ballets Russes in 1925. MUisc by Mode
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4287

    s4287

    • ARTIST: Benjamin Roubaud (France, 1811-1847)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Moorish festival at the outskirts of Algiers (Fête mauresque aux environs d'Alger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, Algiers
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • s1285

    s1285

    • ARTIST: Maurice Charpentier-Mio (France, 1881-1976): drawing
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Gisèle", classical ballet ("Gisèle", ballet classique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Suite de danses" by Léandre Vaillat
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1263

    p1263

    • ARTIST: Pamphaios Painter (Greece, active around 510 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maenad dancing in front of Dionysos. Satyrs playing chelys and double flute.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on black figure vase
    • DATE: -530
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Athenian hydria, fine late black-figured style. Found in Vulci, Italy. Purchased in 1849.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p2960

    p2960

    • ARTIST: Maria Or?owska-Gabry? (Poland, 1925-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Polonez Zywiecki, dance by the Mazowsze ensemble
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s2620

    s2620

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gypsy woman dancing - outskirts of Sevilla (Gitana dansant - environs de Séville)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.8 x 15.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Gustave Doré and Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Sevilla
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p8428

    p8428

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene in "The yellow dwarf", at Covent Garden Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.7 x 34.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p1428

    p1428

    • ARTIST: Max Pechstein (Germany, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance IV (Tanz IV)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s0971

    s0971

    • ARTIST: Gabriel Belot (France, 1882-1962) (engraving))
    • TITLE OF WORK: Beethoven
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 21.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Centenary of the death of Beethoven
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
  • s3355

    s3355

    • ARTIST: Gerlier (drawing); Carter (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lady Hamilton in the shawl dance (Lady Hamilton dansant le pas du châle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the story of Lady Hamilton
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., England, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s0555

    s0555

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet danced by Marie-Antoinette at Schönbrunn (Ballet dansé par Marie-Antoinette à Schoenbrunn)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 11.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from the book "La comédie à la Cour" by Adolphe Julien, published by Firmin-Didot, Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: court, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s0658

    s0658

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Slavery Question in Eastern Africa - Coast-dance of natives at Mquadia, Zanzibar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.2 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Zanzibar, Tanzania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword, drum
  • p4753

    p4753

    • ARTIST: Gorse (drawing); Becquet (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Branle d'Ossau dance (Branle d'Ossau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 36 cm
    • COMMENTS: Other name for this dance: Danse aux Eaux-Bonnes et Laruns. It takes place near Béarn, in Southern France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1492

    p1492

    • ARTIST: Walter Sigmund Hampel (Austria, 1868-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Variété
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print engraving, photogravure tramée
    • DATE: 1899
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Postcard, Published by Philipp & Kramer, Venna, series XXX no. 1
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
  • p5806

    p5806

    • ARTIST: Levebvre, Ch.-A. (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: All Saints festival at Castellon de la Palma (Fête de la Toussaint à Castellon de la Plana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 22.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Celebrations last from the 1st to the 15th of November
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1681

    p1681

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Steinlen (Switzerland, 1859-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman with a rose in her mouth. Costume for the second act of the ballet "Iberia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, Indian ink and watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Suédois
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8632

    p8632

    • ARTIST: Elza Köveshàzi-Kalmàr (Hungary, 1876-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 cm height
    • COMMENTS: The artist saw the ballet by the Sisters Wiesenthal in Vienna in 1910, and was inspired for her statuette "Buttefly". Most probably the same spectacle was the source for this work
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
  • s5468

    s5468

    • ARTIST: Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (France, 1865-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Belle Otero
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, cabaret
    • KEYWORDS: Otero
  • s2742

    s2742

    • ARTIST: G. Vallon
    • TITLE OF WORK: Start in arabesque (Départ en arabesque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sanguine
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3097

    p3097

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Il carnevale languente" in Turin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1647
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p5351

    p5351

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dances and folk songs (Elliniki chori kai dimodi tragoudia)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome, music cover
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4639

    s4639

    • ARTIST: Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (Russia, 1861-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dancers and musicians in a snow-covered village (Danseuses et musiciens russes dans un village enneigé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on carton
    • DATE: 1937
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 41 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and situated Russia at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, accordion
  • p7462

    p7462

    • ARTIST: Pierre Révoil (France 1776-1842)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dances (Les danses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0891

    p0891

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Maria Benzoni (Italy, 1809-1873)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flora and Zephyr
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, white marble, on an octagonal plinth
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 175 cm height; 70 cm plinth
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1867
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, divinity
  • p1600

    p1600

    • ARTIST: Théodore Leblanc (France, 1800-1837) (drawing); Gihaut frères (France, 1815-1871) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance by warriors before Athens (Danse de palikares devant Athènes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1823
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 36 cm
    • COMMENTS: Palikare: a Greek warrior in the War of Independence from the Ottoman rule
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, line
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, military
  • p1167

    p1167

    • ARTIST: Maurice Charpentier-Mio (France, 1881-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze medallion, dark plated
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p5774

    p5774

    • ARTIST: Frédéric Lix (France, 1830-1897) (drawing); A. Daudenarde (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: First presentation of "The cup of the king of Thule" at the Opera (Première représentation de "La coupe du roi de Thulé" à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 31.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Le Royaume des Sirènes, décor et ballet du deuxième acte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3841

    s3841

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Municipal Theatre, Tuesday 25 july at 21:30, the Charles Créance Company in "Noir salle" -2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7719

    p7719

    • ARTIST: Fürst Victor Odescalchi (1833-1880) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The militia of Cisleithania and Transleithania (Die Landswehren von Cis- und Transleithanien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p3661

    p3661

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Loie Fuller and her transformations II: At rest, The propeller, At rest (Mademoiselle Loïe Fuller et ses transformations II: Au repos, L'hélice, Au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • COMMENTS: La danse serpentine
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p3651

    p3651

    • ARTIST: Charles Gesmar (France, 1900-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Montmartre aux nues", publicity
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1926
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p1640

    p1640

    • ARTIST: Alexander Archipenko (Ukraine, 1887-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance III
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 50.5 x 32.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
  • p3836

    p3836

    • TITLE OF WORK: Freiburg (Fribourg)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Artist. Atelier H. Guggenheim & Co. Zürich, No. 7882
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p7328

    p7328

    • ARTIST: Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (Netherlands, 1591/1592-1624)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Banquet in the open air (Gastmahl im Freien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 87 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s3832

    s3832

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saturday 22 jully. Sidonie Rochon Company Anonymous "Chronicle of gravel", presented at Alyscamps (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p5733

    p5733

    • TITLE OF WORK: The sun & moon dance. No. 10.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, steel engraving
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.3 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2256

    s2256

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff in "Tanz des barocken Bacchus", Münchener Pressefest 1913 - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p3220

    p3220

    • TITLE OF WORK: Antelope dance headdress "Chi wara"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood with brass stripes
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 71 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Minianka type, Bambara
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Senegal
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Bambara
  • p1749

    p1749

    • ARTIST: Otto Heinrich Engel (Germany, 1866-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's celebration on Föhr Island
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 190 cm
    • COMMENTS: The artist saw this dance for the first time on the island of Föhr in 1901
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Friesland
    • KEYWORDS: child, instruction
  • s5066

    s5066

    • TITLE OF WORK: Valide Sultana watching two female dancers and two little jugglers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1689
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Valide Sultana was the most powerful woman in the imperial harem. This work was commissionned by Madame Girardin, wife of the French ambassador to the Sublime Porte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, female, duo
    • KEYWORDS: castanets, flute, tambourine, fountain, rebek
  • p4606

    p4606

    • ARTIST: Frans van der Borght (Flanders, 1720?-1765) & Peter van der Borght (Flanders, 1712?-1763)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harvest dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Illustrated carpet from Brussels
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7932

    p7932

    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance for Quetzalcoatl and his twin, Xolotl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, manuscript illumination
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
  • p6501

    p6501

    • ARTIST: Pierre Roche or Fernand Massignon (France, 1855-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1894
    • COMMENTS: Portrait
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s0568

    s0568

    • TITLE OF WORK: Funeral customs of the Mambuttu (Bestattungsgebräuche bei den Mambuttu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.7 x 16.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: death, burial, mourning

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