Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p0079

    p0079

    • ARTIST: Sandro Botticelli (Italy, 1445-1510)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mystical Nativity
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 108.4 x 74.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Circle of angels dancing above the Holy Family in the manger.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Florence
    • KEYWORDS: religion,
  • p6477

    p6477

    • ARTIST: Jean "PAL" Paléologue (Romania, 1860-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère, every evening "La Loïe Fuller" (Folies-Bergère, tous les soirs "La Loïe Fuller")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 132 x 95 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France, Romania, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: light, veils, drapery
  • s2912

    s2912

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet d'Armide" - Second decoration
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1617
    • COMMENTS: Danced by king Louis XIII in 1617. The Water Nyph makes her appearance in the water basin, in front of the two knights looking for Renaud
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, theatrical, stage
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, court,
  • p6109

    p6109

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers in lemon and pink (Danseuses en citron et rose)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2735

    s2735

    • ARTIST: Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (Germany, 1781-1826) & Karl Philipp von Martius (1794-1868) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Batucca in Sao Paulo (Die Batucca in S. Paulo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1823
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Detail from the plate "Bilder aus dem Menschenleben" (Pictures from the life of the people)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Batucca
  • p8109

    p8109

    • ARTIST: Fernand Allard d'Ollivier (Belgium, 1883-1933) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Xylophone player, in Katompé (Joueur de xylophone, à Katompé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, after a watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 8.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ruanda, Congo, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • p8311

    p8311

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Fanny Cerrito
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3849

    p3849

    • ARTIST: Diego Rivera (Mexico, 1886-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Phyllis Dobson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1943
    • DIMENSIONS: 149.9 x 118 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4198

    p4198

    • ARTIST: A. Ferrant
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pompeian scene (Escena pompeyana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1880
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Spain, Italy, Pompey
  • s2946

    s2946

    • ARTIST: Lepère (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The enraged dancers (Les enragés danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 9.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: La fête de la presse pour les "victimes du devoir". au Bois de Boulogne, dans la soirée du 08/06/1884
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s2700

    s2700

    • ARTIST: I. Pomod
    • TITLE OF WORK: Restaurant of the Nine Brothers Jugovitcha
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print from a painting, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Kolo, round
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes,
  • p2309

    p2309

    • ARTIST: Edgard Derouet (France, 1910-2001)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Poitou-Charentes-Vendée
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1941
    • DIMENSIONS: 160 x 120 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poster for a newspaper
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
  • p3816

    p3816

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Niké
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver
    • DATE: -290
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Art of the Great Greece of Southern Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
  • p9021

    p9021

    • ARTIST: Peter Tereszcuk (Austria, 1875-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, ivory, gilt bronze
    • DATE: 1923
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p0505

    p0505

    • ARTIST: Albert Richter (Germany, 1845-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The spirits' dance (Der Geistertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 34.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Vom Indianer-Aufstand in Nordamerika: Der Geistertanz. Nach einer Skizze gezeichnet von Albert Richter (From the Indians' uprising in North America)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • s5607

    s5607

    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman kalathiskos dancer. Fragment of a terracotta plaque. Classical Greek, late 5th century B.C.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, plaque, terracotta
    • DATE: -480
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.4 cm x 11.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: The figure belongs to the type commonly known as a kalathiskos dancer. The identification comes from the headdress and may refer to performances at a festival in honor of Apollo known as the Karneia.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: kalathiskos
  • p8162

    p8162

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Lehmann (Germany, 1877-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Root figures (Wurzelfiguren)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
  • p6579

    p6579

    • ARTIST: Gaëtan Dumas (France, 1879-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fantastic veil (Le voile fantasque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • COMMENTS: "Le voile fantasque", later renamed "Le voile magique" was a choreography by Loïe Fuller, first presented by her troupe in the Parisian theater Olympia in 1920
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s2808

    s2808

    • ARTIST: Louis Delaporte (France, 1842-1925) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Season festival at Luang Prabang (Fêtes de la saison à Luang Prabang)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 15.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Laos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p9510

    p9510

    • ARTIST: Benjamin Ulmann (France, 1829-1884)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancers (Danseuses de flamenco)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72.5 x 129 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, popular, duo
  • s1705

    s1705

    • TITLE OF WORK: Batuta dance (Jocul Batutei)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: Batuta, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin, tanbourine
  • s2775

    s2775

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spectacle in New York for the benefit of the wounded of the Federal Army - Indians' dance (Spectacle à New York au profit des blessés de l'armée fédérale - Danse d'Indiens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 6 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Spectacle in New York for the benefit of the wounded men of the Federal Army - Indian dance. American Civil War
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p2429

    p2429

    • ARTIST: Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (Die Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5009

    p5009

    • ARTIST: Santos Balmori Picazo (Mexico, 1899-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: University Ballet, directed by Magda Montoya (Ballet de la Universidad, dirigida por Magda Montoya)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1955
    • COMMENTS: For the performances at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, 1957. Ballet de la Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de México.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2199

    p2199

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fragment of a Clazomenian sarcophagus showing women's dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -540
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p5607

    p5607

    • ARTIST: Dolly
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two-step
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • s2420

    s2420

    • ARTIST: Malvina Hoffman (U.S.A., 1885-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Oukrainsky dancing with a lute
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, sepia
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.6 x 27.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, classical
    • KEYWORDS: instrument, lute, luth
  • p7810

    p7810

    • ARTIST: Constantin Terechkovitch (Russia, 1902-1978)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tatiana Riabouchinska
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0599

    s0599

    • TITLE OF WORK: Passages in the life of a subaltern. Of course I tumble the first ball I go to in uniform, and don't know how to get up gracefully
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.8 x 11.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, military, caricature
  • p6852

    p6852

    • ARTIST: G. Franz (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas in Cuba (Weihnacht auf Cuba)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.3 x 8.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cuba, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • s4248

    s4248

    • ARTIST: Bernard Weiser (Belgium, 1822-?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 95 x 133 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1964
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin
  • p6622

    p6622

    • TITLE OF WORK: An artist's sketches from the Opera ball (Croquis d'un artiste au bal de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Paris Opera
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p3467

    p3467

    • ARTIST: J. M. W. Turner (U.K., 1775-1851) (painting); H. Gally Knight (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: View of the temple of Jupiter Panellenius on the Island of Aegina, with the Greek national dance of the Romaika
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1818
    • DIMENSIONS: 117.5 x 178 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8992

    p8992

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Princess's Pas de Fascination. The Christmas pantomimes: "Puss in boots" at Drury-Lane Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.6 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater, pantomime
  • s3509

    s3509

    • ARTIST: Stéphanie Barba
    • TITLE OF WORK: Eric Vu An in "Le baiser de la fée", coreographed by Maurice Béjart
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1998
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p7220

    p7220

    • ARTIST: Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky (Ukraine, 1850-1921)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p9886

    p9886

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer with hand raised (Danseuse cambodgienne au bras levé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
  • s3599

    s3599

    • ARTIST: Hugò Scheiber (Hungary, 1873-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tàncosnö)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, plaster
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p1663

    p1663

    • 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
  • p1281

    p1281

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Olga Spessivtseva
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8540

    p8540

    • TITLE OF WORK: Life during manœuvres. In the bivouac (Manöverleben. Im Bivouak)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military, army
  • s5740

    s5740

    • TITLE OF WORK: Men Komos dancers and women dancing. Neck amphora vase (Comastes et femmes dansant. Amphore à col)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure neck-amphora vase
    • DATE: -550
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.8 cm height; 20.5 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: From Corinth
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Corinth
    • DANCE FORM: komos, mixed sexes
  • p3189

    p3189

    • ARTIST: Joseph Lanzedelly (Austria, 1774-1832)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salvatore Vigano and Maria Medina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink wash
    • DATE: 1793
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 29 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4395

    p4395

    • ARTIST: M. P. C. Comte (painting); Jules Lavée (drawing); C. Maurand (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gypsies making small pigs dance in front of King Louis XI when ill. Fine Arts Exhibition (Bohémiens faisant danser des petits cochons devant Louis XI malade. Exposition des Beaux-Arts
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bohemians having litle pigs dance in front of Louis XI in his sickbed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, animals, pigs, child,
  • s3822

    s3822

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The master crosses… Merce Cuningham -1) (Le maitre traverse… Merce Cuningham -1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7118

    p7118

    • ARTIST: Erich Heckel (Germany, 1883-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pantomime of W. Simon Guttmann danced by Sidi Riha (Pantomime von W. Simon Guttmann getanzt von Sidi Riha)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, poster
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.3 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poster for the Neopathetische Cabaret, Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p5039

    p5039

    • ARTIST: Alessandro Sanquirico (Italy, 1777-1849)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Elerz and Zumilda"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1826
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Louis Henry. Music by Pugni. Theater of the Scala of Milan.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4312

    s4312

    • ARTIST: Luigi Mayer (Italy, 1755-1803)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Asservato dance at the village of Fahir in Bulgaria (Ballo asservato presso il villagio di Fahir nella Bulgaria)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor over traces of pencil with touches of bodycolor, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1794
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 37 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bulgaria, Fahir
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0120

    p0120

    • ARTIST: Karl Rudolf Huber (Austria, 1839-1896)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gypsies of Sa'id, Egypt (Tziganes du Sa'id, Egypte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • KEYWORDS: Gypsy
  • p8965

    p8965

    • TITLE OF WORK: New Theatre. "The year's hidden things", a review by Messrs Charles Clairville, A. Vély and A. Vallin (Nouveau Théâtre. "Les dessous de l'année", revue de MM. Charles Clairville, A. Vély et A. Vallin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 26.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: The scene represents the pigeons carrying messages for the magazine "Le Petit Journal"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: animal, theater

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