Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p1910

    p1910

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • p4184

    p4184

    • ARTIST: Marc Chagall (Russia, 1887-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1951
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 232 x 175 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p6497

    p6497

    • ARTIST: Jean Garnier (France, 1853-1910?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serpentine dance (Danse serpentine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1893
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller (?)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p1350

    p1350

    • ARTIST: Alfred Edward Chalon (Switzerland, 1780-1860) (drawing); Richard James Lane (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in the divertissement of the opera "Le Dieu et la Bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1830
    • DIMENSIONS: 52 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Daniel François-Esprit Auber, choreography by Philippe Taglioni. London, King's Theatre, 1831.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Paris, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0647

    p0647

    • ARTIST: Tadeusz Zlamal
    • TITLE OF WORK: Burlesque
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
  • p7145

    p7145

    • ARTIST: Jean Bérain the Elder (France, 1638-1711) (drawing); J. Le Pautre (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Court ballet presented to the King of France and the Princess of Conti in 1683
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1683
    • COMMENTS: Orchestra directed by Lully
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p6738

    p6738

    • ARTIST: Carlos Llobet Busquets (Spain, 1857-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bal de pagesos - Baleares
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • p2942

    p2942

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Manchego guitarist and dancer from Albacete, Mancha
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: Guitarerro manchego et danseuse d'Albacete (Manche)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Albacete
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p5707

    p5707

    • TITLE OF WORK: An Aurrescu at Begona (Un Aurrescu à Begona)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1873

    s1873

    • ARTIST: Arthur Rackham (U.K., 1867-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cupid's Alley: "O, love's but a dance where time plays the fiddle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • COMMENTS: From his "Book of pictures"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s4662

    s4662

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fox-trot, perfume in fashion. Arys, 3 rue de la Paix, Paris (Fox-trot, parfum à la mode. Arys, 3 rue de la Paix, Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, card
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Perfume card
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: fox trot, popular, ballroom, couple
  • p2465

    p2465

    • ARTIST: Adolf Hering (Germany, 1863-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • p9576

    p9576

    • ARTIST: Juan Gris (Spain, 1887-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les tentations de la bergère": Une Paysanne (Peasant Woman)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • 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: costume
  • p6711

    p6711

    • TITLE OF WORK: Natives' dance (Danse d'indigènes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 5 x 10.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Wallis and Futuna, Oceania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2926

    p2926

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes of Asia. Dance of the Ram-genve (Costumi dell'Asia. Danza delle Ram-genve o ssieno ballerine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.6 x 24.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Costume dell' Asia. Danza delle Ram-genve ossieno ballerine
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • s4015

    s4015

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Pater (France, 1695-1736)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country ball (Bal champetre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 74 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p7061

    p7061

    • ARTIST: Francisco De Goya y Lucientes (Spain, 1746-1828)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1815
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • p0311

    p0311

    • TITLE OF WORK: Madly. Ball of the Moulin Rouge (Follement. Bal du Moulin Rouge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1976
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Ruggero Angeletti. With the Doriss Girls, Lisette Malidor, Les Gar*cons de la Rue, and Les Belles du Moulin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7324

    p7324

    • ARTIST: Constant Montald (Belgium, 1862-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nymphs dancing (Nymphes dansant (Dansende nimfen))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Belgium,
  • s2727

    s2727

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: National dances of Montenegro and Bosnia, no. 27
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 27
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bosnia, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s5537

    s5537

    • ARTIST: Antonio Zucchi (Italy, 1726-1795)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball by Lord Stanley at The Oaks near Epsom, Surrey,
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1774
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • s4024

    s4024

    • ARTIST: Giulio Gioia (Italy, 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance. Havana 2003 (La danza. Havana 2003)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2003
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Cuba
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2994

    p2994

    • ARTIST: Mariano Bertuchi Nieto (Spain, 1885-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gypsy feast (Juerga gitana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Coll. Salieti, Barcelona
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: folk, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p4084

    p4084

    • ARTIST: Cornelis Pietersz Bega or Begijn (Netherlands, 1631-1664)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the village tavern (Tanz in der Dosfschenke)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1660
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6654

    p6654

    • ARTIST: Sergio Barcellos Telles (Brazil, 1936-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couples of dancers (Couples de danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1965
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • s1530

    s1530

    • ARTIST: Howard K. Elcock (U.K., 19??-19??) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bovril for sandwiches
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.5 x 22.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p5369

    p5369

    • ARTIST: Malvina Hoffman (U.S.A., 1885-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, gilt plaster
    • DATE: 1931
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s1167

    s1167

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p2011

    p2011

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pamela May in "Horoscope"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5667

    p5667

    • ARTIST: Franz Placidus Altmutter (Austria, 1746-1817)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1795
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2608

    s2608

    • ARTIST: Emile Bayard (France, 1837-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Devil dancers (Danseurs du diable)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.2 x 7.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage dans l'Inde" by Alfred Grandidier, 1862-1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ceylon, Anaradhapoura
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • p2432

    p2432

    • ARTIST: Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet rehearsal - Amazons (Ballettprobe - Amazonen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and colored chalks on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 208.5 x 124.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Middle part of a triptych
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7575

    p7575

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of August Bournonville
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: choreographer, portrait
  • p3678

    p3678

    • ARTIST: E. Sutter (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ein Regimentsjubiläum in Mainz (Regiment's jubilee in Mainz): 1840
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Ein Regimentsjubilaäum in Mainz": Das Jubiläum des grossh. Hessischen Infanterieregiments Nr. 118 in Mainz. aus der costümierten Quandrille beim Mannschaftsfest am 23. Ja
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military,
  • p8115

    p8115

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Lucien Petipa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p5223

    p5223

    • ARTIST: F. D. Cavallaro (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The festival of Flora
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 31.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • p0113

    p0113

    • ARTIST: F. Alexandre Bida (France, 1813-1895)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Egyptian dancer (Danseuse égyptienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p6353

    p6353

    • TITLE OF WORK: Krakowiak. Musical score and Laban notation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1937
    • COMMENTS: Exhibition of the "Archives Internationales de la Danse", Paris 1937, Polish stand
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7167

    p7167

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les petits riens": A Female Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1778
    • COMMENTS: Music by W. A. Mozart; Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0451

    p0451

    • TITLE OF WORK: Five African men and flutist. Amphore from Camiros, Rhodes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, amphora vase
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: African
  • p7838

    p7838

    • ARTIST: de Ghayn
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: mask
  • s5300

    s5300

    • ARTIST: Karl Rudolf Huber (Austria, 1839-1896) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village dancers (Dorftänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • COMMENTS: From Ebers 1879/1880
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: female, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Orientalist, belly
  • p0219

    p0219

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Elysée Montmartre (L'Elysée Montmartre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • s0710

    s0710

    • ARTIST: A. S. Boyd (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Martinique. "Brands plucked from the burning"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.9 x 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bank Holiday at the Earl's Court Exhibition
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Antilles, West Indies
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p0534

    p0534

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers of Coromandel (Danseuses de Coromandel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1805
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Coromandel
  • p3205

    p3205

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lifar - répétition (Lifar - rehearsal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1951
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5503

    p5503

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing dervishes (Tanzende Derwische)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.8 x 17.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Germany
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p6894

    p6894

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Americans dance a lot, but… (On danse beaucoup, mais les Américains...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1927
    • COMMENTS: Illustrated article with the artists first impressions of New York
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
  • s1817

    s1817

    • ARTIST: Millicent Hodson (U.S.A.)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Scating rink": The Madman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1998
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: After the original costume by Fernand Leger. For the production by the Zurich Opera Ballet
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6096

    p6096

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Black exstatic diagonal (Diagonale extatique noire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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