Dance History Gallery

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Dance History Gallery
  • p3664

    p3664

    • ARTIST: Ramiro Arrue (Spain, 1892-1971) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of the Basse-Navarre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Aux Pyrénées. La fête traditionelle basque" by André Geiger.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7282

    p7282

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the Moulin Rouge cabaret: The two waltzers (Au Moulin Rouge: Les deux valseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 95 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Lautrec 92". The person at right is Miss Chau-U-Kao. Jane Avril turns her back to the audience and Gauzi, the painter's friend in top hat.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p4948

    p4948

    • TITLE OF WORK: Casino de Paris music hall. Parade of France (Casino de Paris. Parade de France)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2736

    p2736

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Muzzioli (Italy, 1854-1894)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Temple of Bacchus (Tempio di Bacco)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy
  • s4407

    s4407

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on colored paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Grandjouan executed a great number of pastels of Isadora Duncan between 1905 and the end of the 1920s. The are untitled and undated.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p3824

    p3824

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fandango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1948
    • COMMENTS: Directed by E. E. Reinert. Starring Luis Mariano, Ludmilla Tcherina, Raymond Bussieres, annette Poivre, Jean Tissier, musique de Francis Lopez
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: fandango, traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: cinema, musical comedy
  • s2578

    s2578

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing); Fournier (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Jota aragonesa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Gustave Doré and Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Aragon
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, jota aragonesa, duo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: castanets, guitar, tambourine
  • p3279

    p3279

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko with inscription ZY
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on light blue paper
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.5 x 23.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p0522

    p0522

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Moscow Bohemians (Danse de Bohémiens moscovites)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Moscow
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: Gypsy
  • p3670

    p3670

    • ARTIST: T. Tréjelan (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of tomorrow: The Lancers of Grand Carré (Danse de demain: le Lancier au Grand Carré)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Danses d'autrefois, d'aujourd'hui, de demain" by H de Rive.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, lancers, couple
  • p5344

    p5344

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Carmen"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1949
    • COMMENTS: Ballets de Paris, 1949
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p6610

    p6610

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Greco-Roman art. Detail of a Dionysiac sarcophagus
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome, Greece
  • p9763

    p9763

    • ARTIST: Pauwels Franck or Paolo Fiammingo (Flanders, 1540?-1596)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in a Venetian palace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1585
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 112 x 159 cm
    • COMMENTS: Two other versions of this painting are known. It had been attributed to Paolo Veronese or to Loedewyck Toeput, called Pozzoserato.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
  • p1168

    p1168

    • ARTIST: Etienne Forestier (France, 18??-19??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: After Isadora Duncan (D'après Isadora Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, brown patina
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p3008

    p3008

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Starfish Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze and ivory; base in onyx
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.2 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Romania
  • p3719

    p3719

    • ARTIST: Creüsa Painter (Greece, 400-375 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dionysian scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on red figure vase
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
  • s3505

    s3505

    • TITLE OF WORK: Masked male dancers and ladies in a circle dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Florence, Firenze
    • DANCE FORM: court, closed circle
    • KEYWORDS: carnival, mask, disguise
  • p3950

    p3950

    • TITLE OF WORK: Court dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1080
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p8285

    p8285

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Les métamorphoses", scene 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0379

    p0379

    • ARTIST: Johann Heinrich Keller (Switzerland, 1692-1765)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spring dance (La danse du printemps)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on copper
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40.5 x 49.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
  • p3608

    p3608

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cornplasters of the ballet ladies (Cornplasters des dames du ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 6.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Advertisement
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0612

    p0612

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Samoans (Tanzende Samoaner)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Samoa Islands
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: sitting dance
  • s5627

    s5627

    • ARTIST: The Eucharides Painter (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Boy flutist and man dancing holding stick. Attic red-figure kalpis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, terracotta red-figure vase
    • DATE: -480
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.9 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: Greek, Attic
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • p7299

    p7299

    • ARTIST: Leslie Hurry (U.K., 1909-1978)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Claudius in "Hamlet", ballet in one scene by Robert Helpmannn to music by Tchaikovsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0053

    s0053

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Liturgie": An apostle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache au pochoir
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 64 x 39 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • KEYWORDS: religion, costume,
  • s3046

    s3046

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The escape" - The ballet mistress taking the hand of Dupray and drawing it towards her ("L'escapade" - La maîtresse de ballet prenant la main de Dupray et l'attirant vers elle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.4 x 11.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Une scène de la pièce "L'escapade", par Auguste Germain, de la série "Scènes de la vie parisienne", interprétées par Mmes Mariquita, Marie Pernot, Amélie Guerra, Jeanne Chasle, Céleste Riganti, Claire
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, theater
  • p2315

    p2315

    • ARTIST: Antoine Trouvain (France, 1656-1708)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harlequine dancing in the Opera (Arlequine dansant à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: A scene from a Commedia dell' Arte play
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p5603

    p5603

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of today
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • p5620

    p5620

    • ARTIST: Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Colombia
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s5069

    s5069

    • ARTIST: Eduard Jener i Casellas (Spain, 1882-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tortola Valencia - Maja perfume (Tortola Valencia - Perfume Maja)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, publicity card
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Tortola Valencia gave permission to the artist to use her picture
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p7940

    p7940

    • TITLE OF WORK: Krishna with the cowherdesses
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, manuscript illumination
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Bhagavatapurana
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p0083

    p0083

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Poussin (France, 1594-1665)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The four ages of life or The seasons (Les quatre ages de la vie, ou Les saisons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1639
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 83.1 x 105 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Seasons, hand in hand and facing outward, tread in rhythm to the notes of the lyre that the winged and naked greybeard plays. Photo: Bridgeman/Art Resource, NY.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s1788

    s1788

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Serenade". Ballet Classico Nacional - Liceo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1989
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 70 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4084

    s4084

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pan flutist and three Eros dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 325
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Constantine Mansion in Antiochia, Syria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Byzantium, Syria
    • DANCE FORM: trio
  • s5397

    s5397

    • ARTIST: M. F. Husain (India, 1915-2011)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing horse (Der tänzelnde Pferd)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1955
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75.5 x 65.5 cm
    • DANCE FORM: animal, horse
    • KEYWORDS: animal, horse
  • s2181

    s2181

    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet lesson (La leçon de menuet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, couple
    • KEYWORDS: children, violin
  • p4867

    p4867

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Lancers' Quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1864
    • COMMENTS: From Hillgrove's Ball Room Guide. New York, 1864, p. 98 & 107.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, lancers, quadrille
  • p1808

    p1808

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "L'oiseau de feu": The Tsarevna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and bronze, paper on carton
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.5 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Igor Stravinsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p2048

    p2048

    • ARTIST: Yannis Moralis (Greece, 1916-2009)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes and stage design for the ballet "Six popular pictures" (5)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Six popular pictures" by the "Greek Choreodrama", Athens 1951. Music by Manos Hadjidakis, costumes and stage design by Yannis Moralis, choreography by Rallou Manou
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern, popular
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5806

    s5806

    • ARTIST: Affecter (Greece, active c. 540-520 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancers in stylized poses. Black-figure amphora vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure amphora vase
    • DATE: -535
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.7 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dancers in stylized poses form the decoration on both sides of this Athenian black-figure amphora. On the front, two nude men dance between two clothed onlookers; on the back, three nude men appear to
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • p5133

    p5133

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches from the ballet "Simple symphony"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1944
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3974

    s3974

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Lange (Germany, 1806-1868)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Theseion with peasants dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 91.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lange was a pupil of Rottmann
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, round, circular, circle
  • p0098

    p0098

    • ARTIST: Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Baden-Baden (Tanz in Baden-Baden)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 100.5 x 65.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Baden-Baden
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s0829

    s0829

    • TITLE OF WORK: Notes with our Australian Squadron. A cotillon at Government House, Brisbane
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 24.5
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia, Brisbane
    • DANCE FORM: cotillon, ballroom, mixed couples
    • KEYWORDS: parasol, officer, military
  • p8772

    p8772

    • ARTIST: William Powell Frith (U.K., 1819-1909) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An English merry-making, a hundred years ago
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.7 x 22.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: In the Royal Academy Exhibition
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, England
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • p9851

    p9851

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel III (Flanders, 1589-1640?) (atelier of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The village festival (La kermesse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1630
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 107 x 151 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a set of two paintings
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p1897

    p1897

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rosario & Antonio. Los Chavalillos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p2492

    p2492

    • ARTIST: Thomas Herbert Maguire (U.K., 1821-1895) (drawing and lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clara Vestris Webster as Nancy in "Lady Henrietta or The Statute Fair"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: London 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1441

    s1441

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Shadow's step (Mademoiselle Taglioni. Le pas de l'Ombre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 12.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p2420

    p2420

    • ARTIST: Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (Der Tänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, wood
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 92 x 43 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany

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