Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p2832

    p2832

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gr. Galante and the Chorus in a ballet inspired by the "Birds" of Aristophanes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1980
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Maurice Béjart, Ballets of the 20th Century. Athens, Herodes Atticus Theater, 10/09/1980.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p9010

    p9010

    • ARTIST: G. Broling (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saint John's festival in Saint Petersburg: Dancing boatmen (Das Johannisfest in St. Petersburg: Tanzende Bootsführer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.9 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Saint Petersburg
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4681

    p4681

    • ARTIST: Johann Martin Will (Germany, 1727-1806)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A court "Peasant wedding" (Höfische "Bauren-Hochzeit"). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1765
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.7 x 32.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: A description of the last "Peasant wedding" to take place in Munich, the capital of Bavaria at carnival on 10/01/1765
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s1031

    s1031

    • ARTIST: Thomas Rowlandson (U.K., 1756-1827) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A juvenile ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 30.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: child, music, violin
  • p1764

    p1764

    • ARTIST: Sultan Muhammad (Iran, 14??-15??) (atrributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The lovers' picnic, or Lovers entertained by music and dance. From the Diwan of Hafiz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, illumination, manuscipt
    • DATE: 1530
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.9 x 17.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painted for Sam Mirza ?
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
  • s1155

    s1155

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball at Almack's, 1815. From left: George Brummell, Duchess of Rutland, Count St. Antonio, Princess Esterhazy, Sir G. Warrender, Count St. Aldegonde
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 12.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Reproduced from Gronow's "Reminiscences"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s0645

    s0645

    • TITLE OF WORK: The masked ball given by the Imperial Prince of Germany at Berlin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.8 x 50.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, disguise, ball
  • p3361

    p3361

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Morality Commission (Die Sittlichkeitskommission)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • COMMENTS: Caption: Your productions seem morally rotten. Please repeat them
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s0046

    s0046

    • ARTIST: Francisco Rodriguez San Clement (Spain, 1861-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gypsy dance (Danza gitana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60.5 x 99.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed with title on the reverse
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance ?
  • p7291

    p7291

    • ARTIST: Nadia Benois (Russia, 1896-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Lady into fox": Sylvia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1939
    • COMMENTS: "Lady into fox", ballet in one act and three scenes by Andrée Howard, with music by Arthur Honegger. First produced by the Ballet Rambert at the Mercury Theatre, London, on 15/05/1939
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2414

    s2414

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Stamping ground" by the Lyon Opera Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sketch, black ink
    • DATE: 2000
    • COMMENTS: "Stamping ground" a ballet by Jirji Killian, inspired by the aborigines of Australia. Performed at the Kalamata Festival, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia, France, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7895

    p7895

    • TITLE OF WORK: The styrian step (Le pas styrien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: contredanse, ballroom
  • p5783

    p5783

    • TITLE OF WORK: Women dancing the tarantella in town (Femmes dansant la tarentelle dans la ville)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 7.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: La fête de Piedigrotta à Naples (The Piedigrotta festival in Naples)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples, Napoli
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, tarantella
  • p1529

    p1529

    • ARTIST: Max Pechstein (Germany, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival VI (Karneval VI)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 38 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • p6941

    p6941

    • ARTIST: Jean Bérain the Elder (France, 1638-1711)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Castanet dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9166

    p9166

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": An Aragonese
    • 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
  • s2059

    s2059

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "Ballatio magica" by Ceasar Emmanuel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • s5489

    s5489

    • ARTIST: André Levasseur (France, 1927-2006)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Le rideau rouge - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1956
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9891

    p9891

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three sketches of Isadora Duncan dancing "La Marseillaise"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Wrongly attributed to Leon Bakst in Schneider's book
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p5855

    p5855

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cassez le verre - Picardie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p7395

    p7395

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Proposal for a decoration (Dekorationsentwurf)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and tempera on carton
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 104.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s5409

    s5409

    • ARTIST: Karl Hagenauer (Austria, 1898-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: African dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s4689

    s4689

    • ARTIST: Jean van de Kerkhove (Belgium, 1822-1881)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Turkish dancer (Danseuse turque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 88 x 70 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: duo, Oriental
  • p4617

    p4617

    • ARTIST: Christoph Heinrich Kniep (Germany, 1755-1825)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tarantella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1787
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.9 x 31.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, tarantella
  • s0506

    s0506

    • ARTIST: Dietz Edzard (Germany, 1893-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pear of four roads (La poire aux quatros caminos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1946
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 89 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, popular
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • p4610

    p4610

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scenes, inscribed "Spill vp spilmänd"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on glass
    • DATE: 1609
    • COMMENTS: Parts of a painted glass window, dated 1609, from Gotland, Sweden.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0917

    s0917

    • ARTIST: Balliol Salmon (U.K., 1868-1953) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sir Roger de Coverley at a Devonshire house
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.8 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: Sir Roger de Coverley, popular, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s1399

    s1399

    • ARTIST: J. H. Thorpe (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Revels at the Chelsea Arts Club ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.6 x 32.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p1401

    p1401

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stepdance of the dancing negroes (Steptanz tanzender Neger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41.5 x 31.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p4076

    p4076

    • ARTIST: Joos van Winghe (Flanders, 1544-1603)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Evening banquet and masked ball (Nachtbankett und Maskenfest)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p0127

    p0127

    • ARTIST: Prince Grigoriy Grigoriyevich Gagarin (Russia, 1810-1893)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Turkish court dancer (Bayadère turque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: court, Oriental
  • s3883

    s3883

    • ARTIST: Karl Hofer (Germany, 1878-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of a man - Alexander Sacharoff
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1922
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9276

    p9276

    • ARTIST: Richard Caton Woodville (U.K., 1856-1927) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Nautch dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 23.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, stage
  • p1480

    p1480

    • ARTIST: Phiale Painter (Greece, active ca. 460-430 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Girl with Krotalos dancing in a school of music
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on a vase
    • DATE: -435
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: The phiale portrays a visit to a school of music
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s5154

    s5154

    • TITLE OF WORK: Apollo and Daphne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ivory
    • DATE: 500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The subject is wholly classical and the treatment mainly too. It was probably carved at Alexandria where the classical style long survived. Coptic.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Egypt, Greece, Copt
    • DANCE FORM: ancient
    • KEYWORDS: ancient, music, Coptic
  • p8095

    p8095

    • TITLE OF WORK: An "onnagata" dances among his musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: kabuki
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s1279

    s1279

    • ARTIST: William Theobald Maud (U.K., 1865-1903) (sketch); H. Laxos (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The departure of the liner from Brindisi. Olive-skinned ragamuffins... dance in their picturesque rags to the tune of a mandoline band.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 23.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Brindisi
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: mandoline, lamp, ship, sea
  • s1351

    s1351

    • ARTIST: Henriot (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: But, Mister, you are jumping on my feet… ("Mais, Monsieur, vous me sautez sur les pieds...")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 6 x 5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s1976

    s1976

    • ARTIST: Jerry M. Halsor (U.S.A., 19??-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masterly
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, patina
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.2 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Numbered 22
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3847

    p3847

    • ARTIST: Rupert Bunny (Australia, 1864-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1919
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 81 x 65.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bunny had met Isadora Duncan in Paris. He had also met Nijinsky and Loïe Fuller at his teacher Jean-Paul Laurens's weekly salons
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Palestine, Israel,
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • s1695

    s1695

    • ARTIST: Paul Renouard (France, 1845-1924) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The ideal ballet" - "The ungrateful!" ("Le ballet idéal" - "L'ingrat!")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of 4 charcoal drawings exhibited at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6636

    p6636

    • ARTIST: Thomas Rowlandson (U.K., 1756-1827)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A French family
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5270

    p5270

    • ARTIST: Leonor Fini (Argentina, 1907-1996)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pas de deux
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1948
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p7010

    p7010

    • ARTIST: Oskar Schlemmer (Germany, 1888-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Conceptual organization of the three parts of "Triadic ballet"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
    • KEYWORDS: choreography
  • p6534

    p6534

    • ARTIST: Théodore Rivière (France, 1857-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The danse du lys dance (La danse du lys)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, plaster, white
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.3 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p7827

    p7827

    • TITLE OF WORK: May dance (Danse de mai)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p2233

    p2233

    • ARTIST: Pavel Petrovich Svinyin or Svinin (Russia, 1787-1839)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Merrymaking at a wayside inn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Svinjin was an amateur artist who recorded his impressions of America during a trip made in his early twenties
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s2011

    s2011

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancing figures
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, enamel on silver
    • DATE: 1931
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • s0940

    s0940

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vronska and Alperoff (Vronska et Alperoff)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: stage, duo
  • s1316

    s1316

    • TITLE OF WORK: "We are, in fact, in the thick of a fancy dress ball"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 11.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Mediterranean musings" by E. P. Leigh-Bennett
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: disguise

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