Dance History Gallery

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Dance History Gallery
  • p6267

    p6267

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan. Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.4 x 14.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9898

    p9898

    • ARTIST: Pierre Lelong (France, 1908-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The birthday party
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 50.2 x 72.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p2769

    p2769

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "L'après-midi d'un faune"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3147

    s3147

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Basque farandole called La Pamperruque, danced on the Holy Spirit Square of Bayonne during the birth of the Dauphin (heir) in 1781
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1781
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Bayonne, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: Pamperruque, traditional
  • p8290

    p8290

    • ARTIST: Henri Le Fauconnier (France, 1881-1946) (drawing); Villain (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Charles Mazurier as Jocko in the ballet "Jocko", final scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • s5406

    s5406

    • ARTIST: Viktor Vasnetsov (Russia, 1848-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Frog Princess
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1918
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s2615

    s2615

    • ARTIST: de Saint-Blaise (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Interior of Sjordalen barracks (Intérieur d'un camp de Sjordalen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military, acrobatics
  • p9469

    p9469

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: "Les noces", choreographic scenes with songs, in four scenes. Music and story by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by B. Nijinska; decors and costumes by Natalia Goncharova
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4214

    p4214

    • ARTIST: R. Blumenau (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball on board a war-ship (Ein Ball an Bord eines Kriegsschiffes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.9 x 31.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: navy, military, officers, ship
  • s0420

    s0420

    • ARTIST: Robert Kretschmer (Germany, 1812-1872) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Easter festival in Mensa (Osterfeier in Mensa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.6 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Abyssinia, Ethiopia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: music, flute
  • s5790

    s5790

    • ARTIST: The Michigan Painter (Greece, active around 500 B.C.) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vivid dance and processional dance. Reclining banqueters and revelers. Black-figure stamnos vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure stamnos vase
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Sketches by Agnès Irigoyen.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p0600

    p0600

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink and lead pencil
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
  • s6045

    s6045

    • TITLE OF WORK: A: Komos, youths, one with walking stick and skyphos, one with lyre. B: Komos, youth dancing, cloth on stele, walking stick
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure pelike vase
    • DATE: -475
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p7094

    p7094

    • TITLE OF WORK: Polish nobles dancing the Mazur
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • s3264

    s3264

    • ARTIST: L.-J. Dubois
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rose Latulippe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1943
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
  • s5784

    s5784

    • TITLE OF WORK: Boxers, dancers, musicians. Geometric kantharos vase.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, geometric kantharos vase
    • DATE: -700
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Sketch by Agnès Irigoyen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: armed man
    • KEYWORDS: armed man, boxers
  • s0638

    s0638

    • TITLE OF WORK: Whirling dervishes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 11.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Cairo
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, sama, whirling
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s2217

    s2217

    • ARTIST: Lucienne Pageot-Rousseaux (France, 1899-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Antonia Mercé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1936
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, popular
  • p8597

    p8597

    • ARTIST: Alphonse de Neuville (France, 1835-1885) (drawing); C. Laplante (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the bisons (La danse des bisons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: After the album by G. Catlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Missouri
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native American, animal
  • s0675

    s0675

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Prince and Princess of Wales at the Honourable Artillery Company's ball - The opening quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.2 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, military
  • s3339

    s3339

    • ARTIST: Auguste Daum (France, 1853-1909) & Antonin Daum (France, 1864-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Veiled dancer (Danseuse voilée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, glass, pâte de verre statuette
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by the dances of Loïe Fuller and Greek Tanagra statuettes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p4441

    p4441

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Jeu de voile
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s1070

    s1070

    • TITLE OF WORK: A "thirst" or "sun" dance by Cree Indians, N.W. Canada. Young Indians proving themselves braves
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2227

    s2227

    • ARTIST: C. P. Sainton (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The New Moon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 10.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the exhibition of his studies in silver-point at the Burlington Gallery, London. This work was purchased by HRH the Princess of Wales
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4645

    s4645

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lacauchie (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mlle Pierson as Dona Serafina in the ballet "Paquita"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1846
    • COMMENTS: "Paquita", ballet-pantomime in two acts by Paul Foucher and Mazillier, music by Mr. Delvedez, presented for the first time on 01/04/1846 at the Theater of the Royal Academy of Music (Opéra), Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4000

    s4000

    • ARTIST: Brunias (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance at Santo Domingo (Danse à Saint-Domingue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Santo Domingo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s3081

    s3081

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7417

    p7417

    • ARTIST: David Huggins (U.S.A., 1944-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Dance" from an untitled portfolio
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored pencils
    • DATE: 1965
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3492

    s3492

    • ARTIST: Martin Engelbrecht (Germany, 1684-1756)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Pandoura with his beloved (Tanz des Pandouren mit seiner Geliebten)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper engraving
    • DATE: 1750
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s4320

    s4320

    • TITLE OF WORK: Que les garçons ne valent rien ! Eau des Carmes Boyer (Que les garçons ne valent rien ! Eau des Carmes Boyer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph, color, card
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5945

    p5945

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Last glance in the mirror (Ultime regard au miroir)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8648

    p8648

    • ARTIST: Titouan Lamazou (France, 1955-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gnawa dancer, Essaouira, Morocco (Danseur Gnawa, Essaouira, Maroc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and ink
    • DATE: 1995
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Part of a larger composition
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Morocco, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8505

    p8505

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bernard (France, 1866-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, frieze, marble
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 85 x 525 cm
    • COMMENTS: Executed 1911-1913 for the music room of the hotel Nocard at Neuilly
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p0731

    p0731

    • TITLE OF WORK: Statuette of a Greek dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: -150
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Sold at Drouot-Richelieu, Paris (study by Binoche) on 26/09/97
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p7569

    p7569

    • ARTIST: Edvard Lehmann (Denmark, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: August Bournonville with his family
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and wash
    • DATE: 1852
    • COMMENTS: Drawing dated 21/04/1852, made on the occasion of the marriage of his eldest daughter, Augusta
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • p1929

    p1929

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s4699

    s4699

    • ARTIST: A. Gory
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dancer (Danseuse orientale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, ivory and gilt bronze
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo
  • p4530

    p4530

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fancy dress ball given by the Mayor of Liverpool in the townhall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.7 x 34.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: ... to the officers of the Channel Fleet
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: navy
  • p5250

    p5250

    • ARTIST: Marcel Vertès (Hungary, 1895-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "La belle Helène" (Helen of Troy)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1955
    • COMMENTS: Ballet created at the Opéra de Paris on 06/04/1955; choreography by John Cranko, music by Offenbach; with Yvette Chauviré, Claude Bessy, Michel Renault, Max Bozzoni.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p1254

    p1254

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sylphs (Les Sylphides)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1572

    s1572

    • ARTIST: André Dignimont (France, 1891-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Alsatia, France - 2 (La danse en Alsace)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.8 x 8.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Alsatia, Alsace
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3885

    p3885

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p9273

    p9273

    • TITLE OF WORK: She withdrew herself from her mother's arms, and bounded into the middle of the room, aand suddently began to laugh and dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.7 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the short story "The scapegoat", by Hall Caine
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p9442

    p9442

    • ARTIST: Karel van Bredael (Flanders, 1678-1733)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A kermesse in a village
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 95 x 123.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p3378

    p3378

    • ARTIST: Chiang Yee (China, 1903-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The birds"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2038

    s2038

    • ARTIST: Vassos Kanellos (Greece, 1895?-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan teaching her son to dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Kanellos met Duncan in Athens as a boy and became her pupil
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, instruction, child
  • p3165

    p3165

    • TITLE OF WORK: "King Humming Top" or "Harlequin and the Land of Toys"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1853
    • COMMENTS: London, Drury Lane Theater, 1853
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4412

    p4412

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Prière (Prayer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6996

    p6996

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le pavillon d'Armide", scene 2: Armida
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0462

    p0462

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance at Bougival (La danse à Bougival)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 179 x 96 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Bougival
    • DANCE FORM: popular

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