Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s1374

    s1374

    • ARTIST: Ernst Hosang (Germany, 1857-after 1884) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from Berlin: an evening on the Berliner Bock. Schunkel waltz (Berliner Bilder: Ein Abend auf dem Berliner Bock. Schunkelwalzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • s2473

    s2473

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Universal Exhibition. The A?ssaouas at the Esplanade des Invalides (Exposition Universelle. Les A?ssaouas à l'Esplanade des Invalides)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco, Fez, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s5471

    s5471

    • ARTIST: John Held Jr. (U.S.A., 1889-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dancing, Life nagazine cover, 23 August 1944
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1944
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom,
  • p0576

    p0576

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures from "Manuel complet de la danse"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • COMMENTS: A book by Carlo Blasis
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s4773

    s4773

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and musicians in front of a colonade (Danseuses et musiciens devant une colonnade)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, color
    • DATE: 1825
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Made in Delhi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Delhi
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • p6437

    p6437

    • ARTIST: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (Germany, 1800-1882) (drawing); E. Hallberger (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saint John's festival in Warsaw (Das Johannisfest in Warschau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.8 x 31.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p3039

    p3039

    • ARTIST: Christine Dalliès
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6811

    p6811

    • ARTIST: Lennart Anderson (U.S.A., 1928-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Idyll II
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic on canvas
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 163.8 x 203.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p8639

    p8639

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancer and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on ceramic, porcelain, blue figures
    • DATE: 1410
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: "Bianhu" bottle of the Ming dynasty, Yongle period (1403-1425)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s2862

    s2862

    • TITLE OF WORK: Masked actors of the Commedia dell'Arte dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • s2221

    s2221

    • ARTIST: Edouard Riou (France 1833-1900) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Treatment of a sick man (Un malade en consultation)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23é9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Du Niger au Golfe de Guinée" by Captain Binger (1887-1889)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Guinea
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: therapy, medicine
  • p4785

    p4785

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Worker girls dance in London's East End
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.4 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1087

    s1087

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Spanish dancer Josefa Pepita Duran, who, it is aleged, married the late Lord Sackville
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.3 x 4.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: The remarkable claim to the Sackville peerage
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p5528

    p5528

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Charles de Beauchamp
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: choreographer, portrait
  • p3491

    p3491

    • ARTIST: Takis Tzaneteas (Greece, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Zeibekiko dance of the Spring (To Zeibekiko tis anixis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1989
    • COMMENTS: Drawn after a photograph by Gudula Spilling-Kruger
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: folk, zeibekikos, Greeek dance, rebetiko
  • p2028

    p2028

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Exit two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7948

    p7948

    • ARTIST: Gino Severini (Italy, 1883-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1961
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • p4800

    p4800

    • ARTIST: Franz Kaliwoda (Austria, ?-1859)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance music from Becva (Tanzmusik an der Becva)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Becva is a river near Olomouc (Olmütz) in Slovakia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Slovakia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8659

    p8659

    • TITLE OF WORK: Entertainment to the patients, at the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 23.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: therapy
  • p3204

    p3204

    • ARTIST: Christian Bérard (France, 1902-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene of the Siamoises from the ballet "Les forains"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1945
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 46 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballet des Champs Elysées, 1945. Choreography by Roland Petit, music by H. Sauguet.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4092

    s4092

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Muse Terpsichore
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1857
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p1512

    p1512

    • ARTIST: Charles Cary Rumsey (U.S.A., 1879-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ballerina (La ballerine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9179

    p9179

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes design for the ballet "Pulcinella". Pimpinella and Pulcinella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink on paper
    • DATE: 1920
    • COMMENTS: "Pulcinella", ballet with songs in one scene, by the Ballets Russes. Music by Pergolese arranged by Igor Stravisnky, story by S. Diaghilev after a manuscript dated 1700 discovered by himself in Naples
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1061

    s1061

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet of "Une étoile", at the Royal Italian Opera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Opening scene, representing the interior of the harem.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5928

    s5928

    • TITLE OF WORK: Clay figurine of a woman dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculprure, figurine, clay
    • DATE: -360
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p5049

    p5049

    • ARTIST: Adrien Barrère (France, 1877-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Folies-Bergère cabaret review. Otéro, Maurel, Clémence de Pibrac, Anne Dancrey, Marguerite Deval, Fugère, Fragson - Otéro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cabaret, cancan, Spanish dance
  • s4097

    s4097

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and musicians with wind instruments
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, sketch
    • DATE: 350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at Constantinople-Istanbul
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Byzantium, Greece, Turkey, Istanbul
  • p3083

    p3083

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito and Arthur Saint-Léon in the ballet "La fille de marbre"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0973

    p0973

    • ARTIST: Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The theater of Taormina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1887
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 400 x 240 cm
    • COMMENTS: Panel of the middle of the ceiling of the staircase of the City Theater, Vienna.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Italy, Taormina
    • KEYWORDS: ancient
  • p1137

    p1137

    • ARTIST: Gustave Moreau (France, 1826-1898)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Appearance (L'Apparition)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 104.9 x 71.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1849

    p1849

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance academy in Sevilla (Une "academia de baile" à Séville)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 15.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p0892

    p0892

    • ARTIST: Edmond van Saanen Algi (Romania, 1882-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing on music by Gluck
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Four sketches: Isadora dancing "Air gai" from Gluck's "Iphigenia in Aulis" and "Bacchanale" from Gluck's "Iphigenia in Tauris"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p8599

    p8599

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of two children in Hawaii (Danse de deux enfants à Hawaii)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, wood
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 12.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Hawaii
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p8215

    p8215

    • ARTIST: Rex Whistler (U.K., 1905-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The rake's progress": The Rake
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • COMMENTS: First performed by the Vic-Wells Ballet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 20/05/1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery, costume
  • s0737

    s0737

    • ARTIST: James Wilson Carmichael (U.K., 1800-1868) (sketch); W. Thomas (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Naval Review: - Dance on board H.M.S. "Caesar", 91, Capt. Robb
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.6 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: marine, military, sea, ship, officer, gun
  • p6089

    p6089

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures from Odissi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Folio from an illustrated manuscript of "Abhinaya Chandrika"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • p0133

    p0133

    • ARTIST: Luigi Mayer (Italy, 1755-1803)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ceremony at Ned Sili (Cérémonie à Ned Sili)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint
    • DATE: 1801
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Ned Sili,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, professional, Oriental
  • p7543

    p7543

    • TITLE OF WORK: Samacueca, a popular dance (Samacueca, danza popular)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From an album of Peruvian costumes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, zamacueca, couple
  • s4501

    s4501

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Blue bird", dancers under a lamp. J. Jushny's Theater. "Blue bird" - The two enemies
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, postcard
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, theatrical
  • s1488

    s1488

    • ARTIST: André Galland (France, 1886-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Two by two", a figure by the Basque dancers who came from Spain ("Deux par deux", figure des danseurs basques venus d'Espagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1933
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 11.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Basque dances in Paris"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Biskaya, France, Paris, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: stage, popular
  • p1233

    p1233

    • ARTIST: Sonia Delaunay (France, 1885-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1916
    • COMMENTS: Signed S. Delaunay-Terk
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p1870

    p1870

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dances by F. Garcia Navas (Danzas espa?olas por F. Garcia Navas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Cover of a collection of songs
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s3277

    s3277

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shiva dancing with a lady in front of a tree
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: duo, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, trumpet, tambourine, peacock
  • p4592

    p4592

    • ARTIST: Justus van den Nypoort (Netherlands, 1625-1692)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance and enjoyment of the Pandour and Hungarian troops in the village Lerchhausen near Hausbourg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1686
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: La danse et rejouisance des Pandour et troupe hongroise au village Lerchhausen proche la ville de Hausbourg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, circle
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p9311

    p9311

    • ARTIST: Gerard Hoet (Netherlands, 1648-1733)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A bacchanal in an Italianate landscape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p3091

    p3091

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sarah Jane Woolgar as Duke Albert
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1847
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1840

    p1840

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girls and acrobats
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -430
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Nola. Polygnotos. Detail of a hydria vase.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat, instruction,
  • p2155

    p2155

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Windsor Ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1778
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s2375

    s2375

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 20
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p6397

    p6397

    • TITLE OF WORK: The bolero (Le boléro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance

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