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s4713
ARTIST: Adolphe Jourdan (France, 1825-1889)
TITLE OF WORK: The bacchanal (La bacchanale)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1885
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 99 x 190 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
DANCE FORM: popular
p7485
TITLE OF WORK: A carol dance in the Garden of Mirth
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
DATE: 1380
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: The "Roman de la rose" was an extremely popular work, copied again and again for many generations, with varying illustrations.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: court
p2973
ARTIST: Zofia Stryjenska (Poland, 1891-1976)
TITLE OF WORK: Polonaise (Polonez)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1927
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Wyd. "Galeria artystyczna" Krakow 996
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
DANCE FORM: folk
p1423
ARTIST: Erich Heckel (Germany, 1883-1970)
TITLE OF WORK: Four dancers in orange (Vier Tänzerinnen in Orange)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, feather, wax chalks
DATE: 1911
DIMENSIONS: 9 x 14 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
DANCE FORM: music-hall
s0926
ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: The season on the Basque Coast: under the tamarisks of Ciboure (La saison sur la Côte Basque: sous les tamaris de Ciboure)
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1921
DIMENSIONS: 31 x 48.2 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
s5380
TITLE OF WORK: Salome Ideal Cigarettes Gold
TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, lithograph
DATE: 1930
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
DANCE FORM: Oriental
KEYWORDS: cigarette pack, advertisement
s4902
ARTIST: Léonard-Agathon van Wydeveld (France, 1841-1923)
TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with daisy (Danseuse à la marguérite)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, silver coated and gilt
DATE: 1910
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 52 cm height
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
DANCE FORM: popular, solo
s0200
ARTIST: Valias Semertzidis (Greece, 1911-1983)
TITLE OF WORK: Women's Pontic dance (Pontiakos choros gynaikon)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and tempera
DATE: 1973
DIMENSIONS: 35 x 50 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Pontos, Black Sea, Turkey, Lazistan
DANCE FORM: traditional
p9097
ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
TITLE OF WORK: Composition I, or Two dancers avec elements in space (Composition I, ou Deux danseuses aux éléments dans l'espace)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas laid down on board
DATE: 1930
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 40.7 cm
COMMENTS: Study for the painting "Composition I"
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
p2542
ARTIST: Joseph Bouvier (after a print by)
TITLE OF WORK: Mary Stéphan in the Cracovienne of the ballet "Une soirée de carnaval"
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
DATE: 1842
DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23.5 cm
COMMENTS: Her Majesty's Theatre, London
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
s1139
ARTIST: Laura Knight (U.K., 1877-1970) (painting)
TITLE OF WORK: Spessiva, of the Russian Ballet, tying her shoe (Olga Spessivtseva)
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1922
DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 12.4 cm
COMMENTS: A picture, now on exhibition at the Alpine Club Gallery, Mill Street, London
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K., London
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
KEYWORDS: off-stage
p1298
TITLE OF WORK: Shiva as Nataraja the dance master
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
DATE: 950
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Though in Rajastan the Odissi style is not found, this relief shows clearly its influence.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Rajastan
KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
p2543
ARTIST: Joseph Bouvier (after a print by)
TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito in the polka of the ballet "La Vivandière"
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
DATE: 1842
DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23.5 cm
COMMENTS: Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1844
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p4559
ARTIST: Carl Caspar Pitz (Germany, 1756-1795)
TITLE OF WORK: Dance aroung the Tree of Liberty (Tanz um den Freiheitsbaum)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
DATE: 1793
DIMENSIONS: 91.5 x 75 cm
COMMENTS: Tanz um den Freiheitsbaum am 11. Februar 1793 in Zweibrücken
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
DANCE FORM: popular
p5087
ARTIST: Johann Gottfried Schadow (Germany, 1764-1850)
TITLE OF WORK: Salvatore Vigano and his wife Maria Medina Vigano
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
DATE: 1796
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
p0328
ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
TITLE OF WORK: Russian dancer (Danseuse russe)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
DATE: 1895
DIMENSIONS: 67 x 57 cm
COMMENTS: Degas made about 20 drawings and pastels of a troupe of Russian dancers performing in national costume at the Follies Berg*ere.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
DANCE FORM: music-hall, popular
s3267
ARTIST: Cesare Dell'Acqua (Italy, 1821-1905) (drawing); Lazaretti (coloring)
TITLE OF WORK: Turkish dancers (Ballerini Turchi)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, colored
DATE: 1816
DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 10.5 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
DANCE FORM: traditional
KEYWORDS: sticks
s0117
ARTIST: Jan Miense Molenaer (Netherlands, 1610-1668) (follower of)
TITLE OF WORK: Village dance scene
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1700
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 45 x 65 cm
COMMENTS: One of a pair of paintings
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium, Holland
DANCE FORM: traditional
p6597
ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
TITLE OF WORK: May dance - Dauphiné (Danse de mai - Dauphiné)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
DATE: 1990
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: folk
p1731
ARTIST: Gunnar Hallström (Sweden, 1875-1943)
TITLE OF WORK: Profile of a woman with drinking cup. Costume design for the ballet "Offerlunden"
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pencil and watercolor
DATE: 1923
DIMENSIONS: 26 x 36.7 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p8661
TITLE OF WORK: A Burmese dance - from an original sketch
TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
DATE: 1853
DIMENSIONS: 15 x 24 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma, U.K.
DANCE FORM: traditional
s5835
ARTIST: Asteas Painter (Greece)
TITLE OF WORK: Girl dancer-acrobat performing in front of Dionysus, buffoons bloating; from a phlyax play. Paestan kalyx-krater vase
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure calyx-krater vase
DATE: -350
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
COMMENTS: Lipari
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Paestum, Italy
DANCE FORM: acrobat
KEYWORDS: table
p2401
ARTIST: Jean-Jacques Sempé (France, 1932-)
TITLE OF WORK: Untitled
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, cartoon
DATE: 1980
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: ballroom
p1484
TITLE OF WORK: Ecstatic dance scenes
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on red figure vase
DATE: -450
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
COMMENTS: Krater vase
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
KEYWORDS: therapy, religion
s1599
TITLE OF WORK: Japanese folk dance scene
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1800
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
DANCE FORM: traditional
p6156
TITLE OF WORK: North Corean dancer. Programme cover
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1993
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 28.4 x 21.3 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Korea, North
DANCE FORM: folk
KEYWORDS: fan
p0766
TITLE OF WORK: Jean Ballon, choreographer of the ballets of Louis XIV
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1700
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p3300
ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
TITLE OF WORK: Bather dancing Zeibekiko - white figure in light blue bathing suit, 31/01/1978
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on painted background
DATE: 1978
DIMENSIONS: 28 x 18.2 cm
COMMENTS: Dated 31/01/1978
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
KEYWORDS: rebetiko
p5647
TITLE OF WORK: Sword dance by the knifesmiths in Nürnberg
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
DATE: 1561
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
DANCE FORM: popular
KEYWORDS: military
p0598
ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
TITLE OF WORK: Léonide Massine
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
DATE: 1919
DIMENSIONS: 38 x 30 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, Russia
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p1410
ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
TITLE OF WORK: The Wigman dance troupe (Wigman-Tanzgruppe)
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1928
DIMENSIONS: 27 x 21.1 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
DANCE FORM: modern
s5442
TITLE OF WORK: Kazakh dancer
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ceramic, porcelain
DATE: 1950
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Kazakhstan
p1332
TITLE OF WORK: Greek dancer
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statue
DATE: 100
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Rome
p4841
ARTIST: W. L. Shepard
TITLE OF WORK: The dance
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1882
COMMENTS: A dance immediately following the corn shucking.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
DANCE FORM: traditional
KEYWORDS: African American
s2247
ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
TITLE OF WORK: Elizabeth Duncan School - 1 (Elizabeth Duncan-Schule - 1)
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1921
DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 9.4 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: modern, solo
p2820
ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
TITLE OF WORK: Figures from the English Bach Festival
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
DATE: 1969
COMMENTS: L. Lalanti. Athens, Aliki Theater, 1969.
DANCE FORM: court
p2259
ARTIST: Raoul Dufy (France, 1877-1953)
TITLE OF WORK: Country ball at Falaise
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1906
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: ballroom
p6298
TITLE OF WORK: Illustration No. 7. A position of the minuet
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1800
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
DANCE FORM: ballroom
p2360
ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with bouquet (Danseuse avec bouquet de fleurs)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1884
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
s2980
ARTIST: Marcel-Louis Baugniet (Belgium, 1896-1995)
TITLE OF WORK: Akarova dancing "Mazurka" by Chopin
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
DATE: 1923
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
DANCE FORM: modern, solo
p8372
ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: The dance in Bosnia (La danse en Bosnie)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1894
DIMENSIONS: 22.3 x 32 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bosnia, Yugoslavia
DANCE FORM: traditional
s2159
ARTIST: René-Xavier Prinet (France, 1861-1946) (painting)
TITLE OF WORK: Between friends (Entre amies)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
DATE: 1890
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 12.2 x 19.2 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
KEYWORDS: musical instrument, piano
p4661
ARTIST: Hieronymus Francken I (Flanders, 1540-1610)
TITLE OF WORK: A ball in Venice
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
DATE: 1565
DIMENSIONS: 42 x 65 cm
COMMENTS: The dance is most probably a pavane, whose gravity is contrasted by the figures from the Comedia del' Arte pictured around the scene.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Flanders, Holland, Belgium
DANCE FORM: court, couple
p4315
ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers (Danseuses)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
DATE: 1884
DIMENSIONS: 75 x 73 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p2302
ARTIST: Pierre-Laurent Brenot (France, 1913-1998)
TITLE OF WORK: These ladies prefer the mambo (Ces dames préfèrent le mambo)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
DATE: 1957
DIMENSIONS: 32 x 36 cm
COMMENTS: Poster for the French film directed by Bernard Borderie, starring Pascale Roberts, Eddie Constantine, Linio Venture
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: mambo
KEYWORDS: cinema
s0119
ARTIST: Nicolas Lancret (France, 1690-1743) (after)
TITLE OF WORK: A dance between two fountains
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1700
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 178 x 152.5 cm
COMMENTS: A copy of the original painting in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: court, couple
s5390
ARTIST: Albert von Keller (Germany, 1844-1920)
TITLE OF WORK: Dancing in green (Tanzende im Grünen)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1918
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 71.5 x 33.5 cm
KEYWORDS: nude
s1147
ARTIST: Balliol Salmon (U.K., 1868-1953) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: The little children's celebration of the peace pageant. One of the country dances in Hyde Park
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1919
DIMENSIONS: 7.8 x 14.7 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
DANCE FORM: country dance, popular
KEYWORDS: child
s0848
ARTIST: Arthur Hopkins (U.K., 1848-1930) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: A revival of an old-time dance: a cotillon
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1897
DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 30.4 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, mixed
p5341
TITLE OF WORK: The Caledonian Ball - Dancing the Reel o'Tulloch
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1878
DIMENSIONS: 30 x 57.6 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
DANCE FORM: folk
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