Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p7447

    p7447

    • ARTIST: Theophilos Hadjimichail (Greece, 1867-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: General of the Peloponnese Theodore Kolokotronis... (O stratigos tis Peloponissou Theodoros Kolokotronis...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1933
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 164.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Full title: In 1822, Theofore Kolokotronis, general of the Peloponese, gathers at the plain of Lerna the victorious over Dramalis troops.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military, weapon
  • p4495

    p4495

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mask of Isadora I
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, terracotta
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p0587

    p0587

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Moulin de la Galette (Le Moulin de la Galette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 90 x 117 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4940

    s4940

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Starlight
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, ivory, chryselephantine
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p0122

    p0122

    • ARTIST: Eugène Pavy (France, 1850-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Egyptian musicians (Musiciens égyptiens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
  • p0976

    p0976

    • TITLE OF WORK: Decorated frieze of the kalathos of Liria
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Nuptial dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Spain
    • KEYWORDS: wedding
  • p3468

    p3468

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p8629

    p8629

    • TITLE OF WORK: The horrors of Xibalba - Macabre dance around a recipient
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico, Maya
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
    • KEYWORDS: Maya, animal
  • p4497

    p4497

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Muse of the frieze of Apollo and her meditation. Detail. (La Muse de la frise d'Apollon et sa méditation. Detail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: After Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s3454

    s3454

    • ARTIST: E. J. Predika
    • TITLE OF WORK: Aztec dancers 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2000
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4830

    p4830

    • ARTIST: Antonio Segu?
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1993
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 14 cm
    • DANCE FORM: tango, popular, ballroom, couple
  • p9173

    p9173

    • ARTIST: Fortunato Depero (Italy, 1892-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le chant du rossignol": A Chinese Man
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, collage
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "Le chant du rossignol", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes. Music from the opera "Le rossignol" by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by L. Massine, scenery and costumes by Henri Matisse.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, China
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4837

    s4837

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female ballet dancer in a solo figure
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, cover
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belarus
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p1656

    p1656

    • ARTIST: Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Switzerland, 1889-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1917
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
  • p3739

    p3739

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cover to the programme for the ballet "Le coeur de la marquise"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor heightened with white, gold amd graphite on paper
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.5 x 21.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by G. Guiraud
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p8076

    p8076

    • ARTIST: Miguel
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fruits of a ballet strike
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1905
    • COMMENTS: Saint Petersburg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p1607

    p1607

    • ARTIST: Gino Severini (Italy, 1883-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballerina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49 x 42 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0792

    p0792

    • TITLE OF WORK: Gaetano Vestris (Gaétan Vestris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4491

    s4491

    • ARTIST: Franz Hermann; Hans Gemminger; Valentin Mueller
    • TITLE OF WORK: A scene from a Turkish Harem
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1654
    • DIMENSIONS: 130 x 193.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The inscription reads: "Because it is not the custom for distinguished Turkish ladies to leave the house or to meet foreigners, they invite each other to their houses and entertain themselves with dan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo, Karsilama
    • KEYWORDS: kerchief, musical instruments
  • p3316

    p3316

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with roses garland
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on white paper
    • DATE: 1979
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9741

    p9741

    • ARTIST: Isaac Mendes Belisario (Jamaica, 1795-1849)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Holy King's Day carnival procession
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, heightened with bodycolor
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 36.5 x 61 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Jamaica, Kingston, West Indies
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p1901

    p1901

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • s3366

    s3366

    • TITLE OF WORK: A soufi saint leading his disciples to the dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Ottoman
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, traditional, whirling, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p9980

    p9980

    • ARTIST: Jean-Hughes Taraval (France, 1728-1785)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The danse in the village (La danse au village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1774
    • DIMENSIONS: 115 x 164 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Taraval 1774"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p8826

    p8826

    • ARTIST: Leo von Elliot (Germany, 1816-1890) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scottish popular games. Jig dance (Schottische Volksspiele. Jigtanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.4 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: World Exhibition in Philadelpia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland, U.S.A., Philadelphia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, jig
  • p1596

    p1596

    • ARTIST: Anton Ignaz Melling (Germany, 1763-1831) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: View from Kadi-Kieuï, a village situated on the site of the ancient town of Chalcidon (Vue de Kadi-Kieuo, village situé sur l'emplacement de l'ancienne ville de Chalcédoine, vis-à-vis Constantinople)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1819
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.5 x 67.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Turkey, Istanbul, Constantinople
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0065

    p0065

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Blue dancer (Danseuse bleue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 86 x 75 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7988

    p7988

    • TITLE OF WORK: A court dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1460
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Probably a Basse Danse
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p4960

    p4960

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Galster as Polish peasant woman (Fräulein Galster als polnische Bäuerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1505

    p1505

    • ARTIST: Camille Bombois (France, 1883-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The bowing of the dancer (Le salut de la danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s3176

    s3176

    • TITLE OF WORK: Principal face of a marble sarcophagus, serving as tub for a fountain in the town of Mistra (Face principale d'un sarcophage de marbre, servant de vasque à une fontaine de la ville de Mistra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, from a marble relief sculpture
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Peloponnese, Mystra
  • p2220

    p2220

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball dress
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1823
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3032

    p3032

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing to "Iphigenia" by Gluck
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s4843

    s4843

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, lithograph
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 9.5 cm
  • p9180

    p9180

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Pulcinella"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1920
    • COMMENTS: "Pulcinella", ballet with songs in one scene, by the Ballets Russes. Music by Pergolese arranged by Igor Stravisnky, story by S. Diaghilev after a manuscript dated 1700 discovered by himself in Naples
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p4456

    p4456

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Fureur
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p0230

    p0230

    • TITLE OF WORK: Redskins - Buffalos' dance in a village (Peaux-rouges - La danse des buffles dans un village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans, animal
  • s4168

    s4168

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek folk dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: line, traditional, round
  • p3067

    p3067

    • ARTIST: Fritz Bergen (Germany, 1857-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.1 x 6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich, Bavaria
    • KEYWORDS: child,
  • p8339

    p8339

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Knaus (Germany, 1829-1910) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The golden wedding (Die goldene Hochzeit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.9 x 47.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • p3539

    p3539

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora dancing (Isadora dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Compare with plaster relief by Bourdelle [p0936]
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9401

    p9401

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Rita Sangali in the role of Yedda at the Opera (Mlle Rita Sangalli, dans le rôle de Yedda à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 15.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Yedda", ballet in three acts, by Philippe Gille, Arnold Mortier and L. Mérante. Music by Olivier Métra; presented at the Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Japan
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7589

    p7589

    • ARTIST: Edvard Lehmann (Denmark, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Far from Denmark": The Eskimos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1860
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by August Bournonville
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9793

    p9793

    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant kermesse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 76.2 x 96.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1294

    p1294

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dancing boys
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sepia on paper
    • DATE: 1799
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 49.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p0202

    p0202

    • TITLE OF WORK: Interior of the Ranelagh dance hall (Vue intérieure du Ranelagh)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7098

    p7098

    • TITLE OF WORK: A couple of ballet dancers in the peasant costume of the Cuiavia region
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5825

    s5825

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maenad dancing. Engraved gem
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, engraved, gem
    • DATE: -50
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 1.4 x 1 x 0.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: thyrsos
  • p7269

    p7269

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ludwig, king of Bavaria, and his mistress Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1847
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland, Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p7302

    p7302

    • ARTIST: William Chappell (U.K., 1907-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "Lysistrata"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume

Random image

s2586

Visits counter : 7339