Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p5644

    p5644

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sword dance to bagpipes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination
    • DATE: 1350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s4918

    s4918

    • ARTIST: Yvette Alde (France, 1911-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball (Le bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 162 x 114 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7830

    p7830

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the ardent (Le bal des ardents)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p7580

    p7580

    • ARTIST: N. Christensen
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Auguste Bournonville as Adonis in the ballet "The judgement of Solomon"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1817
    • COMMENTS: Bournonville was 12 years old in this play by Caignez, which had its premiere in Copenhagen at the Royal Theater on 29/10/1817
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child, portrait
  • p7109

    p7109

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tea places - Dance places (Les thés - Les dancings)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p7306

    p7306

    • ARTIST: Carlo Brioschi (Austria, 1826-1895)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Exelsior - paysage de ruines"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Produced at the Opera of Vienna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s2276

    s2276

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gertrud Leistikow - "Faun" - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9411

    p9411

    • ARTIST: George Catlin (U.S.A., 1796-1872)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The war dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, war
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • p6345

    p6345

    • TITLE OF WORK: Who is dancing more graciously? (Wer tanzt lieblicher?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p2931

    p2931

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Kirmess of Volendam (La kermesse de Volendam)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 49.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9055

    p9055

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ballet dancer (Ballerine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 91.5 x 61 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1889
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3508

    p3508

    • ARTIST: Nicos Engonopoulos (Greece, 1907-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Kore": Erevos and Kore
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1956
    • COMMENTS: "Kore", ballet by the Greek Choreodrama; choreography by Rallou Manou and Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi, 1961.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: theater, costume
  • p1299

    p1299

    • TITLE OF WORK: A royal couple is entertained by "rajadasi" dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, sandstone, relief
    • DATE: 550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The feet of the two dancers in the left have the "svastika" position, the sylized sun wheel, emblem of fertility.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Madhya Pradesh, Deogarh
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s3383

    s3383

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cover of the book "My life" by Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • COMMENTS: First edition of Isadora's autobiography.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p7629

    p7629

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker dancing behind bars
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p2863

    p2863

    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman's figure in dancing position, decorated with stylized snake's body
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
  • p2188

    p2188

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The withered rose (Et rose elle a vécu...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4347

    s4347

    • ARTIST: Mehmet Necati (Cyprus, 1904-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Local Cyprus dance with the scythe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cyprus
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: scythe, sickle
  • p8148

    p8148

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: Studies for the Corn Dance, Santo Domingo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p8937

    p8937

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le spectre de la rose": Young Woman (danced by Tamara Karsavina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s6080

    s6080

    • ARTIST: The Heidelberg Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A,B: Theatrical (?), komos (?), men in chitoniskoi and chitons (costume), dancing, one playing pipes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure Siana cup, vase
    • DATE: -555
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p8146

    p8146

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: Santa Clara Buffalo Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p8982

    p8982

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Krishna festival of the Vishnouites: Dance in honor of Krishna (Das Krischnahfest der Wischnuiten: Tanz zu Ehren des Krischnah)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.3 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p3735

    p3735

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant" (The sleeping princess or The sleeping beauty): The Countess
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1921
    • COMMENTS: Music by Piotr Tchaikovsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4286

    s4286

    • ARTIST: Emmanuel Joseph Lauret (France, 1809-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Interior of a harem (Intérieur d'un harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 60 cm
    • COMMENTS: Made in Algiers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, Algiers
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
  • p8843

    p8843

    • ARTIST: Borel
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Ondine, ou La Na?ade" by Jules Perrot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Performance in the parc of the Peterhof estate, summer residence of the czars
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4534

    s4534

    • ARTIST: Thanassis Spyropoulos (Greece, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Betrothal, wedding and divorce of Karanghiozis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, record cover
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • s4303

    s4303

    • ARTIST: Pieter van Laer (Netherlands, 1599-1642)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival company in an inn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas laid down on wood
    • DATE: 1625
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 54 x 82 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p9146

    p9146

    • ARTIST: Sonia Delaunay (France, 1885-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Cléopâtre" (Cleopatra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1918
    • COMMENTS: "Cléopâtre" (Cleopatra), ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris; music by A. Arensky, scenery and costumes by Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay (for the reproduction of 1918)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3126

    s3126

    • ARTIST: K. Tsipis
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hashish smokers entertaining themselves
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Drawn by an artist of the Greek police
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Chassapiko, duo, Greek dance, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, knife, armed, baglamas, rebetiko
  • p8743

    p8743

    • ARTIST: Jasper Isaac (Netherlands, 16??-16??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the world (La danse du monde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1720
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: allegory
  • s4059

    s4059

    • ARTIST: Badillo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Romeria campestre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6080

    p6080

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing figures
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • p4328

    p4328

    • ARTIST: Christian Bérard (France, 1902-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fairground people ("Les forains")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1945
    • COMMENTS: "Les forains", a ballet by Boris Kochno; music by Henri Sauget, décor and costumes by Christian Bérard, choreography by Roland Petit; Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées, 1946.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1509

    s1509

    • ARTIST: Albert Daniel Rutherston (U.K., 1881-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the Bacchantes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1928
    • COMMENTS: From his book "Sixteen designs for the theatre", Oxford University Press, 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: duo, stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s0696

    s0696

    • ARTIST: Joseph Nash (U.K., 1808-1878) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: With the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Off Cape St. Vincent: An evening's entertainment on deck
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.8 x 25.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: marine, military
  • p0601

    p0601

    • ARTIST: Le Clerc
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in Congo (Un bal au Congo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 X 18.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The dancer must try to take the peakock's feather grom his partner's hair
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Congo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5314

    p5314

    • ARTIST: Nikolai Astrup (Norway, 1880-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: St. Hansbal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 66 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s5573

    s5573

    • ARTIST: Elihu Vedder (U.S.A.,1836-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Pleiades
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 61.3 x 95.6 cm
  • p7088

    p7088

    • ARTIST: Isaak van den Blocke (Flanders, 1574-1626)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Allegory of the Trade
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1608
    • COMMENTS: A group of dancing craftsmen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • p9786

    p9786

    • ARTIST: Erich Kips (Germany, 1869-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Thai Royal Ballet, Bangkok
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 51 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Thailand, Bangkok
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p0049

    p0049

    • ARTIST: Gino Severini (Italy, 1883-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pan-pan dance at the Monico cabaret (Danse du Pan-Pan au Monico)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 73 cm
    • COMMENTS: Copy of the original painting, destoyed by the nazis; made in 1959. The Pan Pan was a quadrille by women dancers only
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p5190

    p5190

    • ARTIST: Jasper Johns (U.S.A., 1930-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on a plane. Merce Cunningham
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas with objects
    • DATE: 1979
    • DIMENSIONS: 197.8 x 162.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • p5932

    p5932

    • TITLE OF WORK: Church festival (Kirchweihfest)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p0978

    p0978

    • ARTIST: Alexander Philadelpheus (Greece, 1866-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1901
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7585

    p7585

    • ARTIST: Edvard Lehmann (Denmark, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the first production of the ballet "The kermesse in Bruges"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1851
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4196

    p4196

    • ARTIST: Peter Paul Rubens (Flanders, 1577-1640) (follower of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanal (Bacchanale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1640
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Flanders, Holland, Belgium,
  • p5526

    p5526

    • TITLE OF WORK: A torchlight dance at Mar Lodge. The Prince of Wales in the Highlands
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 30.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3353

    p3353

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Tsamiko dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1964
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: folk, tsamiko, traditional
  • p6683

    p6683

    • TITLE OF WORK: A picnic
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 49 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular

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