Dance History Gallery

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  • p2793

    p2793

    • TITLE OF WORK: La Farandole Provençale dance (La Farandole Provençale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk, farandole
  • s2060

    s2060

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "A star is dancing" by Angelos Simiriotis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p9971

    p9971

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, color on gilt paper
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75.5 x 36.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Style of the Edo period. Panel of a series of twelve.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • KEYWORDS: fan
  • s1296

    s1296

    • ARTIST: Ernest Wallcousins (U.K., 1883-1976) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: He brought the right chocolates. Rowntree's York Chocolates
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p8367

    p8367

    • ARTIST: Maximilienne Guyon-Goepp (France, 1868-1903) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Guimard's dressing room at the Opéra (La loge de la Guimard à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 2.5 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p9421

    p9421

    • ARTIST: Henri Fantin-Latour (France, 1836-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nymphs in a landscape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed Fantin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s4865

    s4865

    • ARTIST: Komala Varadan (India, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bharata Natyam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1987
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Bharata Natyam, Indian traditional, solo
  • p7554

    p7554

    • ARTIST: Elie Nadelman (Poland, 1882-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p3339

    p3339

    • ARTIST: John Piper (U.K., 1903-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Elizabethan dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1954
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73.7 x 99.1
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • p5468

    p5468

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Thérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1657

    s1657

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sabre dance. Morocco (Danse du sabre. Maroc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, chromolithograph
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.1 x 6.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco,
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular, stage, armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sabre, sword
  • s3677

    s3677

    • ARTIST: Antonio Carnicero (Spain, 1748-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young people dancing in a garden (Majos bailando en un jardin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1796
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45 x 56 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: guitar
  • p6799

    p6799

    • ARTIST: Vinzenz Katzler (Austria, 1823-1882) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Lopoldi Festival in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria (Der Leopolditag in Klosterneuburg, Niederösterreich)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • s4216

    s4216

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Csardas dance (Csàrdàs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: csardas, traditional, popular, couple
  • p4759

    p4759

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shepherds' stick dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1818
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stick
  • s1068

    s1068

    • TITLE OF WORK: Todu game before the Sultan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.3 x 11.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Maldives
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: sticks, tambourine
  • p9482

    p9482

    • ARTIST: Juan Gris (Spain, 1887-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les tentations de la bergère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1923
    • 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: scenery
  • p3947

    p3947

    • TITLE OF WORK: The people of Paris celebrating with the army
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p0497

    p0497

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grand arabesque, troisième temps
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, gilt patina
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.8 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9883

    p9883

    • ARTIST: Raoul Dufy (France, 1877-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball at the Moulin de la Galette after Auguste Renoir (Bal au Moulin de la Galette d'après Auguste Renoir)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, popular
  • p4525

    p4525

    • TITLE OF WORK: Roumans dancing the "Hora" before the Grand Duke Nicholas and the Prince and Princess of Roumania
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.6 x 21.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Russian-Turkish war
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, hora, round
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p9707

    p9707

    • ARTIST: Edmund Klotz (Austria, 1855-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing faun
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, pale brown and brown patination
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 118 cm heignt
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: plates, divinity
  • p8384

    p8384

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mdlle Carlotta Grisi in "La Esmeralda"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Her Majesty's theatre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2318

    p2318

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sir Roger de Coverley at a ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s2740

    s2740

    • ARTIST: Marcel-Lenoir or Jules Oury (France, 1872-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6975

    p6975

    • ARTIST: Johann Christian Schoeller (Austria, 1782-1851) (drawing); Zinke (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene 3 from the ballet "Die Nachtwandlerin" ("La somnambule")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6895

    p6895

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.2 x 13.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7195

    p7195

    • TITLE OF WORK: The cholera at Toulon. Scene on the quay
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: fire
  • p1578

    p1578

    • ARTIST: Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance with a yellow fan (Tanz mit gelbem Fächer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 65.3 x 53.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The painter met dancer Alexander Sacharoff in 1908; they became lifelong friends.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
  • p8733

    p8733

    • TITLE OF WORK: Broad-sword dance - Taymouth Castle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1842
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s0536

    s0536

    • ARTIST: Fortunato Depero (Italy, 1892-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rotation of ballerina and parrots (Rotazione di ballerina e pappagalli)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1918
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: animal, bird, parrot
  • s4316

    s4316

    • TITLE OF WORK: Egyptian dances. Guérin-Boutron chocolate. Theater through the centuries (Danses égyptiennes. Chocolat Guérin-Boutron. Le théâtre à travers les âges.)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph, color, card
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional
  • p5093

    p5093

    • TITLE OF WORK: The polka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka
  • p3509

    p3509

    • ARTIST: Nicos Engonopoulos (Greece, 1907-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Kore": Persephone and Tantalos
    • 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
  • p8222

    p8222

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Carmen", scene 2, at Lillas Pastia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1949
    • COMMENTS: "Carmen", a ballet on music by Bizet, design by Antoni Clavé, choreography by Roland Petit; first given by the Ballets de Paris at Prince's Theatre, London, on 21/02/1949
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p3794

    p3794

    • ARTIST: Hintzy Heymann & Associés
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dialing in ten digits (La numérotation en 10 chiffres)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1996
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Publicity for the change of telephone numbers from eight to ten digits, in France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s4028

    s4028

    • 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
  • s1121

    s1121

    • ARTIST: Balliol Salmon (U.K., 1868-1953) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Merrie England" once again: Morris dancers at the Queen's Hall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 21.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Espérance Working Girls' Club is making an effort to revive the ancient love of English folk music and Morris dancers.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., England, London
    • DANCE FORM: Morris, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • p5914

    p5914

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet training
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 119.4 x 89.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at upper right "E L Kirchner", at uppe left "K"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4307

    s4307

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Egyptian dancer (Danseuse égyptienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, gold painted
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 74 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Marble base decorated with a bronze bas relief bearing an Egyptian design
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Romania
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s4733

    s4733

    • ARTIST: Fausto Zonaro (Italy, 1854-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bairam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wooden panel
    • DATE: 1899
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Istanbul
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round, popular
    • KEYWORDS: drum, daul
  • s2053

    s2053

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "Daedalus in Crete" by Angelos Sikelianos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • s3801

    s3801

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Kurt Jooss
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1925
    • COMMENTS: Dated Essen 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Essen
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • p6582

    p6582

    • ARTIST: Edouard Halouze (France, 1895-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The elves. Scene for the film "Les ballets fantastiques de Loïe Fuller"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p1366

    p1366

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste van Moor or Mour (France, 1671-1737)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Armenian wedding (Mariage arménien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44 x 58 cm
    • COMMENTS: This scene can be seen in several other paintings and engravings.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Armenia
    • DANCE FORM: processional
    • KEYWORDS: weddding
  • s5704

    s5704

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing satyr. Roman copy from a Greek original
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble statue
    • DATE: 150
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 186 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome, Greece
  • s0846

    s0846

    • ARTIST: William Theobald Maud (U.K., 1865-1903) (sketch); F. C. Dickinson (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Street dogs barking at a dancing bear and his keeper in Constantinople
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 22.8
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Istanbul, Constantinople
    • KEYWORDS: animal, bear
  • s5730

    s5730

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr dancing, satyr flutist et maenad. Scene from a comedy (?) Red-figure bell crater (Satyre dansant, satyre flûtiste et ménade (scène de comédie ?. Cratère en cloche à figures rouges)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure bell crater vase
    • DATE: -400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.8 x 29.3; 28.9 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Found in Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: satyr, aulos
  • s0754

    s0754

    • TITLE OF WORK: In the Egyptian Café, Cairo Street (Café Egyptien, rue du Caire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 14 cm
    • COMMENTS: International Exhibition, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, stage, female, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • p0434

    p0434

    • ARTIST: Henri Hayden (France, 1883-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Boum-Boum cabaret (Le cabaret Boum-Boum)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 45 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France

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