Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s5488

    s5488

    • ARTIST: Bernard Daydé (France, 1921-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Dryade, Iréne Skorik, musique de A. Adam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1955
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1217

    s1217

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dervishes dancing and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: A manuscript illustrated by Turkish artists for the ambassador of Venice
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, traditional, whirling, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1156

    p1156

    • ARTIST: Gerard ter Borch (Netherlands, 1617-1681)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • s3045

    s3045

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Getaway" - She jumps in Seine River ("L'escapade" - Elle pique une tête dans la Seine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 5.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Une scène de la pièce "L'escapade", par Auguste Germain, de la série "Scènes de la vie parisienne", interprétées par Mmes Mariquita, Marie Pernot, Amélie Guerra, Jeanne Chasle, Céleste Riganti, Claire
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, theater
  • s1247

    s1247

    • ARTIST: Lancelot Speed (U.K., 1860-1931) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "A midsummer night's dream" at Drury Lane
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p7950

    p7950

    • ARTIST: Romain de Tirtoff "Erté" (Russia, 1892-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nautch dancer (Bayadère)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p7423

    p7423

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance school of Isadora Duncan (Ecole de danse d'Isadora Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, instruction
  • p0946

    p0946

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9145

    p9145

    • ARTIST: Robert Delaunay (France, 1885-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Cléopâtre" (Cleopatra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1918
    • COMMENTS: "Cléopâtre" (Cleopatra), ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris; music by A. Arensky, scenery and costumes by Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay (for the reproduction of 1918)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p2808

    p2808

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rudolf Nureyef and M. Fonteyn in the ballet "Corsaire"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1963
    • COMMENTS: Athens, Herodus Atticus Theater, 09/08/1963. London Royal Ballet.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Russia, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5565

    p5565

    • TITLE OF WORK: Courtiers performing a carol
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1460
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s4411

    s4411

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on colored paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Grandjouan executed a great number of pastels of Isadora Duncan between 1905 and the end of the 1920s. The are untitled and undated.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s3577

    s3577

    • ARTIST: Miklòs Izsò (Hungary, 1831-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing peasant, No. 14
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1870
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
  • p6878

    p6878

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the ball (Au bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte, aquatinte and drypoint
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, popular
  • p8198

    p8198

    • ARTIST: Guérin (painting); B. Roger (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Jean-Georges Noverre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, chalk miniature
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • p3368

    p3368

    • ARTIST: Claude Michel "Clodion" (France, 1738-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two bacchantes dancing with a child (Deux bacchantes dansant avec un enfant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta
    • DATE: 1800
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5182

    p5182

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer, musician and minnesinger
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: troubadour
  • p6837

    p6837

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Grögler (Germany, 1830-1897) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A painfull orchestra (Schmerzhafte Capelle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Aus den Münchener Sommerbierkellern (From the summer bier inns of Munich)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4055

    p4055

    • ARTIST: Taller de los Serrs
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome dances in front of Herod (Salome baila ante Herodes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1390
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Part of "Historias de San Juan Bautista", upper scene
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p3350

    p3350

    • ARTIST: Patrick Procktor (U.K., 1936-2003)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Yuri Sokolev with Natalia Makarova rehearsing "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1963
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1502

    s1502

    • ARTIST: Willy Pogány (Hungary, 1882-1955) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the filn "The devil dancer": The Nautch Girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 8.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Tibet, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: cinema, costume
  • s3173

    s3173

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Hilaire (France, 1753-1822) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village of Maïto (Village de Maïto)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1782
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.1 x 19.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Maïto, Greece, Madytos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9306

    p9306

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers - yellow skirts, red bodice (Trois danseuses - jupes jaunes, corsages rouges)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on joined paper
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 51.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the signature
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0183

    p0183

    • ARTIST: William Roberts (U.K., 1895-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mr. and Mrs. Keynes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1932
    • COMMENTS: Mr Keynes married the ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova in 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5894

    s5894

    • TITLE OF WORK: A: Two women lyra players and four women dancers. B: Symposium scene. Medallion: Old man and dog.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, kylix vase
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p6113

    p6113

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Dance, first version (La danse, première version)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte en couleurs
    • DATE: 1931
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p5934

    p5934

    • TITLE OF WORK: Rasalila scene of two Gopis with Krishna in the center
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, palm-leaf manuscript
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s4703

    s4703

    • ARTIST: José González de la Peña (Spain, 1887-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sevillian twilight (Crepusculo sevillano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 x 55 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Sevilla
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional, popular, Spanish dance
  • s5686

    s5686

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing male. Hellenistic, bronze statuette
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze statuette
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Hellenistc, Ptolemaic, found in Alexandria, Egypt
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Hellenistic, Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p7505

    p7505

    • 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
  • p4799

    p4799

    • ARTIST: Teodor Axentowicz (Poland/Armenia, 1859-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance (Kolomyjka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 85 x 112.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Kolomyjka, Kalamaika, Calamajka, Kolomejka, Kolomeka, are variations of the name of this dance from Central Europe. This scene is situated in East Galicia.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Eastern Carpathia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0316

    p0316

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Goulue and Valentin le Desossé (La Goulue et Valentin le Desossé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.4 x 25.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
  • s3922

    s3922

    • ARTIST: Alexander Sacharoff or Sakharoff (Ukraine, 1886-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rehearsal (Die Probe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, tempera and collage
    • DATE: 1915
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7766

    p7766

    • ARTIST: Marcel Duchamp (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8762

    p8762

    • ARTIST: Leo von Elliot (Germany, 1816-1890) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the journey to Philadelphia: During the trip to Frisia (Auf der Reise nach Philadelphia: Während der Ueberfahrt auf der Frisia)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.1 x 26.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: navy, ship, sea
  • s3693

    s3693

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dance scenes on the same Etruscan vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Etruscan imitation of a Greek original
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Etruria, Italy
  • p7475

    p7475

    • ARTIST: Jacob Smits (Netherlands/Belgium, 1855-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The round dance (La ronde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2947

    s2947

    • ARTIST: Karl Fichot & Reichan (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the Court of Commerce (Le bal du Tribunal de Commerce)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.9 x 29.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p3456

    p3456

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1932
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s4553

    s4553

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (France, 1798-1809)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancer and female musician with tambourine on a pair of silver bowls
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, silver bowl
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Pair de rafraichissoirs et leurs doublures en argent
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, solo
  • p3612

    p3612

    • TITLE OF WORK: The nine principal figures of the new dance created by the Elks: the Kickapoo (Les neuf principales figures de la danse nouvelle créée par les Elks: le Kickapoo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.5 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Three principal figures from the new dance created by the Elks: the Kickapoo. A new choreography, inspired by the Redskins, as a reply to the cake-walk, borrrowed from the negroes of North America.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: choreography
  • s4108

    s4108

    • TITLE OF WORK: Four maidens dancing, "Praise ye the Lord" scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1637
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Euboea
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s5889

    s5889

    • TITLE OF WORK: Terracotta dancing doll holding castanets
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Made in Corinth
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Corinth
    • KEYWORDS: doll
  • s5722

    s5722

    • TITLE OF WORK: Attic terracotta: Female dancer holding krotals (Attische Terrakotte: Tänzerin mit Kastagnetten)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, clay
    • DATE: -385
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.3 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Found in Athens. Bears traces of blue and red paint
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica
  • s0633

    s0633

    • TITLE OF WORK: A native war-dance at Nassova, Fiji
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The young princes on their cruise
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Fiji, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: war, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, military
  • p6463

    p6463

    • TITLE OF WORK: La Loïe Fuller before her serpentine dance (La Loïe Fuller avant sa danse serpentine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1899
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7618

    p7618

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker (Joséphine Baker)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p4649

    p4649

    • ARTIST: Daniel Chodowiecki (Poland, 1726-1801)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing master (Der Tanzmeister)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1782
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.1 x 4.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s5362

    s5362

    • ARTIST: Olaf Gulbransson (Norway, 1873-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La belle Otero
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drawing, carricature, cartoon
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • KEYWORDS: Otero
  • s3655

    s3655

    • ARTIST: Paul Gavarni or Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier (France, 1804-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Of the polka - suite (De la polka - suite)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, polka
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature

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