Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p8438

    p8438

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3364

    p3364

    • ARTIST: Richard Brakenburgh (Netherlands, 1650-1702)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant dance (Bauerntanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p5022

    p5022

    • ARTIST: Antonio López Mancera (Mexico, 1924-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La fille mal gardée"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1964
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, 1964.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1540

    s1540

    • ARTIST: Stop (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in 1851 (Un bal en 1851)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s3279

    s3279

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan study
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel
    • DATE: 1917
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • p0896

    p0896

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rehearsal (La repétition)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.5 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: Vallauris
  • p2029

    p2029

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Moyra Fraser in "The birds"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1591

    s1591

    • ARTIST: Rex Whistler (U.K., 1905-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Decor design for the ballet "Les sylphides"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1941
    • COMMENTS: "Les sylphides", ballet by the International Ballet Company. Lyric Theatre, London, 08/1941. Scenery by Rex Whistler
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p8542

    p8542

    • TITLE OF WORK: Opera: "La Korrigane", ballet in two acts. The village square. Rosita Mauri as Yvonnette (Opéra: "La Korrigane", ballet en deux actes. La place du village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 31.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: "La Korrigane", ballet by Coppée and Mérante, music by Widor, decor by Lavaste jeune
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5222

    s5222

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm von Kaulbach (Germany, 1805-1874)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez in historical costume (Lola Montez im historischen Kostuem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 242 x 166 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s4789

    s4789

    • ARTIST: Rodolfo B. Feleo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, the Muslim suite: Vinta
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, monochrome
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s1771

    s1771

    • ARTIST: Franca Squarciapino (Italy, 1940-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1992
    • COMMENTS: "La bayadère", ballet by the Paris Opera, choreography by Rudelf Noureev, 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5713

    s5713

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fragment of a relief showing a dancing maenad. Roman Empire
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 50
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.5 x 21.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Found on the Island of Capri, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: maenad
  • p6121

    p6121

    • ARTIST: Hans Dürer (Germany, 1490-1538?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances in the open air - Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1532
    • COMMENTS: Friese in the Chambre of the Representatives of the royal castle of Wawel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0289

    s0289

    • ARTIST: Knut Ekwall (Sweden, 1843-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas evening (Weihnachtsabend)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.8 x 50.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child, tree
  • p4089

    p4089

    • ARTIST: Theodoor van Thulden (Netherlands, 1606-1669)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flemish wedding (Flämische Hochzeit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1655
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1957

    p1957

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Studies for the ballet "Les Sylphides"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3349

    p3349

    • ARTIST: Leonard Rosoman (U.K., 1913-2012)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nathalie Philippart in "Le jeune homme et la mort"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1959
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7555

    p7555

    • ARTIST: Elie Nadelman (Poland, 1882-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil, pen, brush, wash
    • DATE: 1918
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p4359

    p4359

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Furie in "Zoroastre"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4814

    s4814

    • ARTIST: Marcel Busson (France, 1913-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three Guedra dancers at Ouarzazat, Morocco (Trois danseuses de Guedra à Ouarzazat, Maroc )
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 50 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, trio, Oriental
  • p1408

    p1408

    • TITLE OF WORK: (Three women and a man dancing, violinists)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0656

    s0656

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Lady Mayoress's fancy dress ball at the Mansion House
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.5 x 42.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s3507

    s3507

    • ARTIST: Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (Germany, 1480?-1540)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p8097

    p8097

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet dancer (talking to herself): I do not know if I dance to live or live to dance (Ballettänzerin (monologisirend): Ich weiss nicht - tanze ich um zu leben, oder lebe ich um zu tanzen?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 7.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballet dancer (to herself): I do not know - do I dance to live, or do I live to dance ?
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p6651

    p6651

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.3 x 22.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1326

    p1326

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Gysis (Greece, 1842-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Joy (I chara)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 157 x 105 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p6421

    p6421

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for a costume rocaille ou rococo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2617

    s2617

    • ARTIST: Auguste Hadamard (France, 1823-1886) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro dance at Ezzeribe (Danse nègre à Ezzerîbê)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Hadji Scander (baron Krafft)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Libya, Tripolitania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: sticks, drum
  • p1305

    p1305

    • ARTIST: William Kinnard (U.K., 1788-1839)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance at Delphi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Delphi
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1670

    p1670

    • ARTIST: Pietro Annigoni (Italy, 1910-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dame Margot Fonteyn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1955
    • DIMENSIONS: 153.3 x 100 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3025

    p3025

    • ARTIST: Auguste-François Gorguet (France, 1862-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Isadora Duncan and the young pupils of her dance school
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.8 x 43.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Original title: Miss Isadora Duncan et les jeunes élèves de son école de danse
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, children
  • s5569

    s5569

    • TITLE OF WORK: Festivals and customs in Germany (Feste und Bräuche in Deutschland)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 0
    • COMMENTS: Book front cover
  • p2300

    p2300

    • ARTIST: John Bull
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pavlova's new (faux) pas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, caricature, cartoon
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3674

    p3674

    • TITLE OF WORK: Yedda giving the Mikado to drink. First act (Yedda donnant à boire au Mikado. Premier acte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.6 x 21.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre de l'Opéra. "Yedda", ballet en trois actes, par MM. Gille, Mortier et Mérante; musique de M. Olivier Métra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5060

    p5060

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. La grande folie (The great folly)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5624

    s5624

    • TITLE OF WORK: Double aulos player, Dionysus, goat amd woman dancer. Black-figure neck amphora
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, terracotta black-figure vase
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40.4 × 26.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: The back of the amphora depicts the festive atmosphere surrounding Dionysos, the god of wine. Dionysos stands calmly holding his kantharos, or drinking cup, while his companions dance and make music.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: god, goat
  • p2287

    p2287

    • ARTIST: Jean Jacquelin (France, 1905-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lady Paname
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 160 x 120 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poster
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p4062

    p4062

    • ARTIST: Juan Rodríguez y Jiménez "El Panadero" (Spain, 1756-1830)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance (Danza espa?ola)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1815
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.5 x 57.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • p1372

    p1372

    • ARTIST: Kyriakos Tsakiris (Greece, 1915-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance in prison (Zeibekiko tis fylakis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1964
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Drawn when the artist was a political prisoner in Greece.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, zeibekiko, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: politics, rebetiko
  • s1586

    s1586

    • ARTIST: Rex Whistler (U.K., 1905-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Decor design for the ballet "Fidelio", act 1, scene 1: The Jailer's House
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1934
    • COMMENTS: "Fidelio", ballet by the Toye-Beecham Company. Covent Garden Theatre, 05/1934. Scenery by Rex Whistler
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p7494

    p7494

    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0854

    s0854

    • TITLE OF WORK: To the Great North-West with the Marquis of Lorne - Chippeway Indians dancing the Sioux dance at Rat Portage
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Canada
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, male
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, pipe
  • p1593

    p1593

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dance in the countryside (Branle grec à la campagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1783
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • s4486

    s4486

    • ARTIST: Tenatur
    • TITLE OF WORK: How they provide lighting. Gas burners (Comment elles s'éclairent. Les becs de gaz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, cartoon
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 7.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • s1343

    s1343

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loop dancer (Reifentänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: loop
  • p6347

    p6347

    • TITLE OF WORK: Meaning of hand positions in Bharata Natyam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1970
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Bharata Natyam, traditional
  • p2431

    p2431

    • ARTIST: Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet rehearsal - Amazons (Ballettprobe - Amazonen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and colored chalks on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 208.5 x 124.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Left part of a triptych
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0755

    p0755

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Shiva
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: One of the earliest representations of dancing Shiva
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p0373

    p0373

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Waiting (L'attente)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1882
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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