Dance History Gallery

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Dance History Gallery
  • p3231

    p3231

    • TITLE OF WORK: Animal-headed dance headdress with large spiral horns, Ekoi people
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood covered with skin
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 86 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cameroun
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9481

    p9481

    • ARTIST: Juan Gris (Spain, 1887-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les tentations de la bergère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: "Les tentations de la bergère", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes. Music by M. Montéclair (1666-1727), arranged and orchestrated by H. Casadesus. Choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; décors and
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9268

    p9268

    • TITLE OF WORK: Perrot and Cerito in the ballet of "L'élève de l'amour", at Her Majesty's Theatre (in 1842)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.4 x 15.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: The illustrtion first apperared in the Illustrated London News, 25/06/1842.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0210

    p0210

    • ARTIST: Eugene von Guérard (Austria, 1811-1901) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance foyer at the Opera (Foyer de la danse à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s3824

    s3824

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Thursday 20 July at 22 hours. Municipal Theater. The Ramon Oller Company of Dansa Metros "Sol a soles"-1(Jeudi 20 juillet 22H. Théâtre Municipal. Ramon Oller Company de Dansa Metros "Sol a soles" (1))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s4246

    s4246

    • ARTIST: Léopold "Léo" Lelée (France, 1872-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Farandole of Arlesiennes (Farandoles d'Arlésiennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1939
    • DIMENSIONS: 49 x 120 cm
    • COMMENTS: For this type of themes Lelée was surnamed "The painter of the Arlsesiennes"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, round
  • s2626

    s2626

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Amparo dancing the fandango (La Amparo dansant le fandango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.3 x 15.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, fandango, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, castanets
  • p0212

    p0212

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi in "La Péri", ballet fantastique, 2nd act, Pas de l'abeille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2387

    s2387

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 32
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • s3633

    s3633

    • ARTIST: Johann M. Hermann
    • TITLE OF WORK: The bolero (Le boléro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1834
    • COMMENTS: Bals de l'Opéra à Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: bolero, traditional, folk, couple, character
  • p9594

    p9594

    • ARTIST: Pedro Pruna (Spain, 1904-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "Les matelots"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1925
    • COMMENTS: "Les matelots", ballet in five scenes, by the Ballets Russes. Music by G. Auric, story by Boris Kochno; choreography by L. Massine; décors, curtain and costumes by Pedro Pruna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s4538

    s4538

    • ARTIST: P. Lagonikou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Girls in a dance at Karpathos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color pencils
    • DATE: 2005
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Gift of Ms. Marigoula Kritsioti
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Dodecanese, Karpathos, Elympos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s2447

    s2447

    • TITLE OF WORK: Professional male or female dancers "çengi" twirling majolica plates on their fingers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • s5907

    s5907

    • TITLE OF WORK: Chehel Sotun Palace: Fresco depicting a gala reception given by Shah Abbas I for Vali-Mohammad Khan, Emir of Turkestan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on wall, fresco
    • DATE: 1611
    • COMMENTS: Four dancers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Isfahan Iran
  • p3541

    p3541

    • ARTIST: Léonard-Agathon van Wydeveld (France, 1841-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Shawl play (Jeu de l'écharpe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, gilt
    • DATE: 1903
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p9112

    p9112

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La légende de Joseph": Negro (2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: "La légende de Joseph", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes. Choreography by M. Fokine, music by R. Strauss, scenario by H. von Kessler and Hugo von Hoffmannssthal, scenery by J.-M. Sert, costumes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6440

    p6440

    • ARTIST: Frédéric Lix (France, 1830-1897) (drawing); C. Petit (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A scene in the camp of the Confederates in South Carolina (Eine Szene aus dem Lager der Konföderirten in Süd-Carolina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.4 x 31.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p0998

    p0998

    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple of dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -525
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: According to the conventions of the archaic painting, the man`s skin is shown darker than the woman.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
  • s1549

    s1549

    • TITLE OF WORK: State Express Virginia cigarettes 555 made by hand one at a time
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p9444

    p9444

    • ARTIST: Marc Chagall (Russia, 1887-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Daphnis and Chloë: Wedding feast in the Numphs' grotto
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.5 x 64.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and numbered
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p9959

    p9959

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the dressing room before entering the stage. The "Harnasie" ballet (Dans la loge, avant l'entrée en scène. Ballet d'"Harnasie")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1937
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Emile Vuillermoz "Le ballet à l'Académie Nationale de Musique et de Danse"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5664

    p5664

    • ARTIST: Hans Sebald Beham (Germany, 1500-1550)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing peasants 11 & 12
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1546
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2519

    s2519

    • TITLE OF WORK: Coon songs and dances 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, from a photograph
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.3 x 9.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cake-walk
  • s0242

    s0242

    • ARTIST: Josef von Wodzinski (Germany, 1859-1918?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the private costumed ball (Auf dem Privat-Costümball)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.7 x 22.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p0088

    p0088

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro dances on blue background (Danses nègres sur fond bleu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel, poster
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 34 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poster project for "La revue nègre". Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall
  • p5263

    p5263

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Petrouchka": Street Dancer 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris, 1947
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8254

    p8254

    • TITLE OF WORK: Native dance by moonlight, Island of Tanna; chief waving spear and palm-branch to direct the dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: From: Sketches in the New Hebrides, West Pacific Ocean
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: New Hebrides
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • p4275

    p4275

    • TITLE OF WORK: Five women dancing; zourna player
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The Hamilton Psalter, cod. 78 A 9, p. 2436
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1268

    p1268

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Hilaire (France, 1753-1822) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: View of Smyrna (Vue de Smyrne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1782
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 35 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Turkey, Smyrna, Izmir
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6544

    p6544

    • ARTIST: Manuel Orazi (Italy, 1860-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Theatre of Loïe Fuller. Universal Exposition. Paris Street (Théâtre de Loïe Fuller. Exposition Universelle. Rue de Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 201 x 60.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery, lights
  • p5829

    p5829

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Chopin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6010

    p6010

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Les Sylphides" - Before the curtain rise at Monte Carlo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0273

    s0273

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Japanese ballet at the Theatre of Kyoto
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, Kyoto
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p8767

    p8767

    • ARTIST: F. Jüttner (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from Berlin: Musical evening entertainment in a tavern (Berliner Bilder: Musikalische Abendunterhaltung in einem Kellerlokal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 31.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
  • s1195

    s1195

    • ARTIST: Stop (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball of the Marine, reviewed, corrected and increased. The six queens of the ball (Le bal de la Marine, revu, corrigé et augmenté. Les six reines du bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
  • s3167

    s3167

    • ARTIST: Le Barbier l'ainé (France, 1738-1826) (drawing); B. J. Henriquez (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tchenky or public dancer (Tschenky ou danseur public)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1787
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.6 x 11.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: boy, professional
  • p2379

    p2379

    • ARTIST: A. Paul Weber (Germany, 1893-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Death dance (Totentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, felt pencil
    • DATE: 1970
    • DIMENSIONS: 41.5 x 65.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
  • p6900

    p6900

    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova's toe-point
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze cast
    • DATE: 1916
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5077

    s5077

    • ARTIST: Arthur F. Mathews (U.S.A., 1860-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Music and the dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
  • p2805

    p2805

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the opera "Dame pique"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1963
    • COMMENTS: Muisc by P. I. Tchaikovsky, choreography by E. Tsoukala. Athens, National Lyric Scene, 15/02/1963.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Russia, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • s3053

    s3053

    • ARTIST: Andrea Mantegna (Italy, 1431-1506)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Parnassus (Parnasso)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1497
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • p8175

    p8175

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Le tricorne"; first performed at the Alhambra Theatre, London, on 22/07/1919. Distribution: Léonide Massine (The miller), Tamara Karsavina (The miller's wife), Léon Woizikowsky (The corregidor
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1190

    s1190

    • ARTIST: Adolf Alexander Dillens (Belgium, 1821-1877) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball at Goës, Zealand (Un bal à Goës, Zélande)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Zealand, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: fight
  • p4387

    p4387

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph printed in colors
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.6 x 25.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From an edition of about 50. Inspired by Loïe Fuller's "Fire dance"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: light, veils, drapery
  • p0033

    p0033

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance - Blue harmony (La danse - Harmonie bleue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 88 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p6830

    p6830

    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding reel (Ronde des noces)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3591

    s3591

    • ARTIST: Istvàn Zichy (Hungary, 1879-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hunor and Magyar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 45.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular, circle, round
  • s0908

    s0908

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Aeolian "Vocalion", the dance orchestra for your home
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement, publicity
  • s4048

    s4048

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancing women. Attic black-figure oinochoe vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure oinochoe vase
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 13.8 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: two maenads dancing, one towards the left, the other towards the right, both facing inward, vines intwined around and above them. Italy, Etruria, Orvieto
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens,
  • p3721

    p3721

    • ARTIST: Maurice Charpentier-Mio (France, 1881-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four studies of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: Wrongly attributed to Mario Charpentier
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan

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