Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3285

    p3285

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Eros crowning the ace of Zeibekiko dance, Villeneuve 01/03/1977
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on white paper
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 29.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p3389

    p3389

    • ARTIST: Nicholas Georgiadis (Greece, 1923-2001)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The invitation": Two Older Sisters
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1960
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3692

    p3692

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scenes fron the revue "Paris aux étoiles"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • COMMENTS: Starring Johnny Hudgins, Mauricet Harry Pilcer, Dollie and Billie. Opening on 26/11/1927 at the Moulin Rouge music-hall, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
  • s3409

    s3409

    • ARTIST: The Leagros Group (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Five bearded male dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, lekythos vase
    • DATE: -515
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6684

    p6684

    • TITLE OF WORK: At the Braille School. The pause (A l'Ecole Braille. La récréation)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: Children of the Braille school for blind.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p2967

    p2967

    • ARTIST: Wincenty Wodzinowski (Poland, 1866-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wedding (Wesele)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Wyd. "Galeria Polska" Krakow 81
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4045

    s4045

    • TITLE OF WORK: Crowned boy dancing in procession, woman flutist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on red figure vase
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • s3774

    s3774

    • ARTIST: C. Cullen
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing on the green
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, line-engraving
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Wales
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s2499

    s2499

    • ARTIST: Benard (direction)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Night dance, executed by the women of Hapaee (Danse de nuit, exécutée par les femmes de Hapaee)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 38.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Compare with item P8607
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Tonga, Pacific, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p3447

    p3447

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3098

    s3098

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance at the roots of the sky (Danseurs aux racines du ciel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
  • p7357

    p7357

    • ARTIST: P. Ferat (drawing); E. Roevens (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Senegal. A festival given by the natives of Lower Cazamance, for the governor of the colony (Sénégal. Fête donnée par les indigènes de la Basse-Cazamance, au gouverneur de la colonie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Senegal, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0719

    s0719

    • TITLE OF WORK: Glad of an opportunity of studying native character and cultivating native society, he attends, got up in the latest Masherdonian style
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from a short story
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nautch
  • s3786

    s3786

    • ARTIST: Garlonn
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jabadao, the Devil's dance (Jabadao, la danse du Diable)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1974
    • COMMENTS: Hommage aux Soeur Goadec
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p3088

    p3088

    • ARTIST: Michel Vincent Brandoin (U.K., 1733-1807) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Allemande
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1772
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p0486

    p0486

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancin'. A new music entertainment, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. Broadhurst Theatre, New York
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p8556

    p8556

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hippodrome Theater - The zouaves' polka (Théâtre de l'Hippodrome - La polka des zouaves)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, engraving
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: The zouaves were a corps of the French army
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, polka
    • KEYWORDS: military, army
  • p2009

    p2009

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: June Brae in "Les patineurs" (The skaters)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7285

    p7285

    • ARTIST: Nadia Benois (Russia, 1896-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Backcloth for "The descent of Hebe", ballet by Anthony Tudor to music by Ernest Bloch
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • COMMENTS: Ballet first produced by the Ballet Rambert at the Mercury Theatre, London, on 21/04/1935.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3235

    s3235

    • ARTIST: Alfred Laliberté (Canada, 1878-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet (Le menuet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, court
  • s3579

    s3579

    • ARTIST: Miklós Barabás (Hungary, 1810-1898) (drawing); Auguste Charpentier (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The arrival of the bride (A menyasszony megérkezése)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1856
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • s2006

    s2006

    • TITLE OF WORK: Liselott
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s0270

    s0270

    • ARTIST: Francesco Vinea (Italy, 1845-1902) (painting); R. Jericke (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the inn (In der Osteria)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 34 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s4458

    s4458

    • ARTIST: J. G. Tiedemann
    • TITLE OF WORK: Death dance in the Saint Mary church at Lübeck (Totentanz in der Marien-Kirche zu Lübeck)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, feather
    • DATE: 1832
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
  • p6667

    p6667

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shepherds' dance (La danse des pastoureaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1480
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • p3435

    p3435

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6593

    p6593

    • TITLE OF WORK: Banknote of 500 meticals. Bank of Mozambique
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1988
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Warriors dancing
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mozambique
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, military
  • s2441

    s2441

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mevlevi dervishes dancing in a teke
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Sema, whirling
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p3273

    p3273

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Naked dancer with golden mirror, rose background, 01/01/1977
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on craft paper
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.7 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9545

    p9545

    • ARTIST: Stefano Ghirardini (Italy, 1696-1756)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants dancing and making music in a landscape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1735
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 82.5 x 111 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Bologna
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, trio
  • s5616

    s5616

    • ARTIST: The Marathon Painter (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Women dancing before an image of Dionysos. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, terracotta black-figure vase, white-ground
    • DATE: -420
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.6 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Greek, Attic
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • p5367

    p5367

    • ARTIST: George Groslier (Cambodia, 1887-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hand figures of a Cambodian dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p9144

    p9144

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume model for the ballet "Parade": French Manager
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, painted carton
    • DATE: 1917
    • COMMENTS: Reconstructed in 1964
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3030

    s3030

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball given in honour of the French admiral and officers at Portsmouth townhall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.2 x 23.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Portsmouth
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: invitation
  • s4350

    s4350

    • TITLE OF WORK: Le Phylaxandre du Sieur de La Charnays
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1625
    • COMMENTS: Book cover. The scene represents life in utopian Arcadia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, round
  • p5295

    p5295

    • ARTIST: Nils Nilsson (Sweden, 1901-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Dans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1935
    • DIMENSIONS: 125 x 130 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p4049

    p4049

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers in pink and green (Danseuses en rose et vert)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 82.2 x 75.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2632

    p2632

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le dieu bleu": Blue God (danced by Vaslav Nijinsky)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Le dieu bleu", Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris. Costumes and stage design by Leon Bakst; music by Reynaldo Hahn.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5751

    p5751

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer Laval as a Greek
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p1540

    p1540

    • TITLE OF WORK: The great carnival of Paris (Le grand carnaval de Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2448

    p2448

    • ARTIST: August Macke (Germany, 1887-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chord dancer (Seiltänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 82 x 60 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: chord dance, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • s0392

    s0392

    • ARTIST: Robert Leineweber (drawing); X. A. Werthmann (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Frieze for an inn (Ein Wirthsstubenfries)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.9 x 35.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: After a composition on wood by the same artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p0523

    p0523

    • TITLE OF WORK: Public balls will always attract people of high society (Les bals publics attireront toujours la meilleure société)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 6.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p5598

    p5598

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene. Frontispiece of "Canzone a ballo"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1568
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • p1935

    p1935

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lunois (France, 1863-1916)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A night at Burrero's (Une nuit au Burrero)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p6585

    p6585

    • ARTIST: Edouard Halouze (France, 1895-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Papillons. Scene for the film "Les ballets fantastiques de Loïe Fuller"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p1242

    p1242

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on the temple of Konarak. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bas-relief
    • DATE: 1250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The temple of Konarak was dedicated to Surya, god of the sun. The figures give a fairly good idea of the Odissi style, danced at that time in the great hall of this temple.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Konarak
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • p8815

    p8815

    • TITLE OF WORK: Grand military ball at the Commercial Hall, Chelsea
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.8 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Chelsea
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: military, officers
  • p0558

    p0558

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Lancret (France, 1690-1743)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Camargo dancing (Mlle Camargo dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: As Casanova writes in his Memoires, "Camargo was the first ballerina who dared jump; before her ballerinas did not jump"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0004

    s0004

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fauns' dance (La danse des faunes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1957
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 53 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Spain, France

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