Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0662

    s0662

    • ARTIST: Bra?tou-Sala
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cleo de Merode (Cléo de Mérode)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1890

    s1890

    • TITLE OF WORK: All the leading dance bands record exclusively for "His Master's Voice"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement, music, violin, saxophone, piano, drums
  • p6519

    p6519

    • ARTIST: François-Rupert Carabin (France, 1862-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 18.5 x 17.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Part of a series of Loïe Fuller statuettes, which the artist kept till his death. Only 4 or 5 copies were made of each. The sculptor invited the dancer to his studio where he sketched her in various p
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • p2061

    p2061

    • ARTIST: George Vakalo (Greece, 1902-1991)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Autumn land"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1951
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0164

    p0164

    • ARTIST: Thanassis Spyropoulos (Greece, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental (Anatolitiko)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by "Zaira", a song by Vassilis Tsitsanis
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Greece
  • s5669

    s5669

    • TITLE OF WORK: Macedonian woman dancer seen from behind. Terracotta relief
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, terracotta plaque
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: Made and found in Macedonia, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Macedonia
  • p6135

    p6135

    • ARTIST: Janine Charrat (France, 1924-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6236

    p6236

    • ARTIST: Jan Havickszoon Steen (Netherland, 1626-1679) painting
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Flemish festival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.8 x 16.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5655

    s5655

    • ARTIST: Washing Painter (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing lesson, woman teacher and two pupils. Pottery: red-figured hydria (water-jar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured hydria vase
    • DATE: -425
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.32 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Made in Attica, found in Nola, Naples, Italy. In the centre a woman in a chiton schistos with broad black border and apoptygma, and hair looped up with fillet, stands en face, her left resting on a sh
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: class
    • KEYWORDS: teacher, student, lesson
  • p7748

    p7748

    • ARTIST: Henry Andrews (U.K., 1794-1868)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Adelaide O'Bryan in "The Tyrolienne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3559

    p3559

    • ARTIST: Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (Russia, 1806-1858)
    • TITLE OF WORK: October festival in Rome near Ponte Molle. Before the dance.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1842
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9636

    p9636

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with tambourine (Danseuse au tambourin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1918
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: Study for the terracotta "Danseuse au tambourin II", executed in 1918
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p2510

    p2510

    • ARTIST: Maleuvre (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni as Fleur des Champs in the ballet "La fille du Danube"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1836
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris, Académie Royale de Musique
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3346

    s3346

    • ARTIST: Alphonse Gentil (Algeria, 1872-1933) & François Eugène Bourdet (France, 1874-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tanagra dancer, raised hand (Tanagra danseuse bras levé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, sandstone, statuette
    • DATE: 1907
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by the dances of Loïe Fuller and Greek Tanagra statuettes. Marked "Gentil / Billancourt / Bourdet"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: drapery, veil
  • s5457

    s5457

    • ARTIST: Fritz Husmann (Germany, 1896-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mary Wigman in "The Elegy"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s3057

    s3057

    • ARTIST: Sherwin (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Noverre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • p7017

    p7017

    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian sailor dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1939
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, character
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s4295

    s4295

    • ARTIST: Raoul Larche (France, 1860-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller in the Fire Dance (Loïe Fuller dans la Danse du Feu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lamp with two lights
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • p8360

    p8360

    • ARTIST: André Galland (France, 1886-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the great cafés of Innsbruck: the dance of the Tyrolean singers (Dans les grands cafés d'Innsbruck: la danse des chanteurs tyroliens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1934
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6154

    p6154

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mr. Balon dancing at the Opera as Amandis of Greee, performed in Paris (Monsieur Balon, dansant à l'Opéra, dans Amandis de Grèce, représenté à Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1669
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0778

    p0778

    • ARTIST: George Cruikshank (U.K., 1792-1878) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing lesson: Part 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, colored etching
    • DATE: 1824
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s0707

    s0707

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A popular Basque dance. The King of Spain's holiday: Random sketches at San Sebastian
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 11.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque, San Sebastian
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p8720

    p8720

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet of the "Fête des rosiers". at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: A ballet-divertissement for the "rentrée" of Carolina Rosati, with Mr. Mattia. Mr. Gosselin, the inventor of the ballet, has employed the capabilities of Rosa, Esper, Lamoureux and Allegrini.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6801

    p6801

    • ARTIST: Jean Bérain the Elder (France, 1638-1711)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish-looking dancer (Danseur à l'espagnol)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, court, Spanish dance?
  • p0640

    p0640

    • ARTIST: Hubert Robert (France, 1733-1808)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The cave of the nymphs (La grotte des nymphes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s2503

    s2503

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance feast of the Brazilians (Fête de danse des Brasiliens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1590
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Compare with image S2502
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s3771

    s3771

    • TITLE OF WORK: Harpist and couple of dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, woodcarving
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Wales, Oswestry
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, harp
  • p9768

    p9768

    • ARTIST: Pelaghia Kyriazi (Greece, 1960?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal on paper
    • DATE: 1987
    • DIMENSIONS: 200 x 150 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1899

    s1899

    • TITLE OF WORK: Women dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on a vase
    • DATE: -490
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found in tomb 1099 of the Ceramic Cemetery of Athens, during excavations for the metro subway
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p7021

    p7021

    • ARTIST: Fernand Blayn (France, 1853-1892) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Artists' dressing room (Loge d'artistes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: theater, child
  • p5668

    p5668

    • ARTIST: Robert Taylor Pritchett (U.K., 1828-1907)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Old Norwegian Springdans from Hardanger
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6880

    p6880

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Farandole
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, music-hall
  • s4493

    s4493

    • TITLE OF WORK: Comic goat dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: animal, goat, disguise, tambourin, Pan flute, music
  • p6737

    p6737

    • ARTIST: Carlos Llobet Busquets (Spain, 1857-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Fandaguillo dance of Extremadura (El fandaguillo - Extremadura)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • p9158

    p9158

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": The Idiot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "Le tricorne", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by M. de Falla, composed for the pantomime by Martinez-Sierra. Scenario by Serge Diaghilev after the play "Le tricorne" by Alarc
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0631

    s0631

    • ARTIST: Auguste Gérardin (France, 1849-1924?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Cinghalese at the Acclimatation Garden, Paris. Devil's dance (Les Cynghalais au Jardin d'Acclimatation. La danse du diable)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.2 x 30.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ceylon, Sri Lanka, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: Devil's dance, traditional
  • p8258

    p8258

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mid-Lent children's parties in Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 18.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: child, disguise
  • p0488

    p0488

    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman buffoon dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, vase, terracotta
    • DATE: -370
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Scene from a thiassos, detail.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s1397

    s1397

    • TITLE OF WORK: Olympic Circus - Pas styrien by Mr. Ginezelli and Miss Adelaide (Cirque Olympique - Pas styrien, par M. Ginezelli et mademoiselle Adéla?de)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobatics, animal, horse, circus
  • p0723

    p0723

    • TITLE OF WORK: Circus scene. Dancers with musicians playing the tibiae
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 175
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a building at Aventino Hill, Rome. Restored on 1712 by Tomaso de Rossi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1630

    s1630

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the "Revue Zizi Jeanmaire"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1972
    • COMMENTS: "Revue Zizi Jeanmaire", Ballets Roland Petit, Casino de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0682

    p0682

    • TITLE OF WORK: "National dances of France", 2nd act, last scene ("Les danses nationales de la France", acte 2, scène dernière)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre des Variétés. Illustration for an article by Léo de Bernard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6987

    p6987

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Feast of Fools, act 3, scene 2 from the ballet "La Esmeralda"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0172

    p0172

    • ARTIST: Thanassis Spyropoulos (Greece, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by "Thelo sta bouzoukia", a song by G. Mitsakis
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, zeibekiko
  • s5030

    s5030

    • ARTIST: Paul Sérusier (France, 1864-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flutist and female dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 120 cm
    • COMMENTS: Chateauneuf du Faou
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • p1735

    p1735

    • ARTIST: Miguel Covarrubias (Mexico, 1904-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Jean Börlin in the ballet "Within the quota"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.5 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Within the quota", a ballet sketch for the Ballets Suédois by Gerald Murphy; music by Cole Porter, orchestrated by Charles Koechlin; sets and costumes by Gerald Murphy; choreography by Jean Börlin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p6964

    p6964

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Martin (France, 1659-1735) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Chinese dancer, suitable for several divertissements, as in the ballet "Les Indes galantes" and others
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, China
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6441

    p6441

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Fidji warriors (Tanz von Fidschi-Kriegern)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 23.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Fiji
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3125

    p3125

    • ARTIST: François Gabriel Guillaume Lépaulle (France, 1804-1886)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni and her brother Paul Taglioni in the ballet "La Sylphide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
  • p1210

    p1210

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers (Los danzantes) I
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, stone
    • DATE: 300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 200 cm height approximately
    • COMMENTS: These reliefs gave the name Danzantes to the gallery and to the site where they were found. Some archeologists believe they might represent dead men.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: Monte Alban, Aztec

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