Dance History Gallery

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Dance History Gallery
  • s3037

    s3037

    • ARTIST: André Edouard Marty (France, 1882-1974) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan at the Châtelet Theatre -2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Published with his article "Isadora Duncan au Châtelet"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s2955

    s2955

    • TITLE OF WORK: The sorcerer (La socière)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1489
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p7902

    p7902

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Venitian festivals (Les féstes vénetiennes )
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the ballet opera "Les fêtes vénétiennes", which opened with "La fête des banquerolles"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • s2766

    s2766

    • ARTIST: Charles Maurand (France, 1824-1904) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumed ball given by Her Majesty the Empress, on Monday 9 February - Ballet of the Bees (Bal costumé donné pas Sa Majesté l'Impératrice, le lundi 9 fevrier - Le ballet des abeilles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 48.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ball donné aux Tuilleries le 09/02/1863
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p9868

    p9868

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers (Deux danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and pastel on tracing paper, mounted on wove paper
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 109 x 81 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8227

    p8227

    • ARTIST: Nadine Baylis (U.K., 1940-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "That is the show"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1971
    • COMMENTS: "That is the show", ballet on music by Bario, design by Nadine Baylis, lighting by J. B. Read, choreography by Morrice; first performance by the Ballet Rambert at the Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre, Londo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p0789

    p0789

    • TITLE OF WORK: The old plantation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1795
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
  • s0598

    s0598

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Christmas figure. Ladies' chain
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s2864

    s2864

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Spring triumphs over winter", a ballet presented at the court of Savoia, Torino 1657
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1657
    • COMMENTS: Entry of the winds. Libretto by Don Orepiano, music by F. Farinello
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: stage, classical ballet
  • p0812

    p0812

    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball in the street (Le bal dans la rue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, magazine cover
    • DATE: 1921
    • COMMENTS: Cover of the Parisian weekly magazine "Le Petit Journal", 17/08/1921, on the occasion of the French National Day of the 14 July.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6470

    p6470

    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller in "Serpentine dance" (La Loïe Fuller dans "La danse serpentine")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • COMMENTS: Lighting plan for the performance in the "Théâtre des Folies-Bergère"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p1396

    p1396

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Panama dancers (Panamatänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 50.5 x 50.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Panama
  • p8606

    p8606

    • TITLE OF WORK: War and religious dance of the Tupinambas (Danse guerrière et religieuse des Tupinambas - Kriegerisch-religiöser Tanz der Tupinambas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, wood
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.2 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: war, religion
  • p1500

    p1500

    • ARTIST: Simone Pomardi (Italy, 1760?-1830)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Albanian Greeks dancing at the Temple of Theseus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1805
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Albania, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2993

    p2993

    • TITLE OF WORK: Andalusian courtyard (Patio andaluz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Coll. Salieti, Barcelona
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: folk, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p0790

    p0790

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Breakdown
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
  • p6789

    p6789

    • ARTIST: A. Baumann (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: St. John's celebration in Finland (St. John's Day in Finland )
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1618

    p1618

    • ARTIST: Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky (Russia, 1839-1915)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The moonlight
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
  • p5611

    p5611

    • ARTIST: V. A. Vlassov (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Chopeniana", waltz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1959
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, waltz
  • p0788

    p0788

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi in the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1139

    p1139

    • TITLE OF WORK: King David composing psalms. Scribes, musicians and two dancers.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1720
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Psaleter frontispiece, English school, Canterbury
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Israel
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion, Bible
  • s4932

    s4932

    • ARTIST: Salvador Dalí (Spain, 1904-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carmen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p7631

    p7631

    • ARTIST: Yannis Logothethis (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wound up dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1970
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p4748

    p4748

    • ARTIST: Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (France, 1804-1860)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vlach circle dance accompanied by Gypsies and performed by members of the Second Regiment of Prince Ghika, Gospodar of Wallachia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1839
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p9492

    p9492

    • ARTIST: Jean Baptiste Benard (1720-1789)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country dance (Danse champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 28 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p2404

    p2404

    • ARTIST: Max Ernst (Germany, 1891-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Lion of Belfort. Mud (Le lion de Belfort. La boue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1934
    • COMMENTS: From the collage-novel "Une semaine de bonté ou Les sept éléments capitaux". Premier cahier. Dimanche - Elémemt : La boue. Exemple : Le lion de Belfort
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p4743

    p4743

    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball-room
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s6004

    s6004

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three women dancing. Attic large late geometric piriform jar from Trachones
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, jar
    • DATE: -690
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p5564

    p5564

    • TITLE OF WORK: A carol performed in Augsburg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p9373

    p9373

    • TITLE OF WORK: Constance-Polka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the musical score. Dedicated to Madame Constanze Sulkowska, dramatic artist at the Lemberg Theater, bu the composer Simon Robert Okulski
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka, couple
    • KEYWORDS: score
  • p9223

    p9223

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing satyr
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze with patination
    • DATE: 1899
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 105 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular
  • p0377

    p0377

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on a bench (Danseuses sur un banc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6924

    p6924

    • ARTIST: Louis-Léopold Boilly (France, 1761-1845)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance craze (La dansomanie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s2905

    s2905

    • ARTIST: Daniel Rabel (France, 1578-1637)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the Four Parts of the World" - Sarabande dancers ("Ballet des Quatre Parties du Monde" - Danseurs de Sarabande)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1619
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, theatrical, stage
    • KEYWORDS: court
  • p1950

    p1950

    • ARTIST: Alexander Calder (U.S.A., 1898-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker I (Joséphine Baker I)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wire
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 101 x 95 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p3874

    p3874

    • TITLE OF WORK: Don Juan. Ernesto Ponzio. Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Cover of a tango score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, popular
  • p9104

    p9104

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the opera "Le rossignol" (The nightingale): Fisherman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: "Le rossignol", opera by the Balets Russes. Music by I. Stravinsky after a tale by Andersen; choreography by B. Romanov, scenery and costumes by A. Benois. In 1916 the opera was presented with scenery
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris, China
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera, costume
  • p8470

    p8470

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball given by Mr. Faidherbe, governor of Senegal, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Guet-N'dar bridge at Saint-Louis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 17.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: A ball given by Mr. Faidherbe, governor of Senegal, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Guet-N'dar bridge, in Saint-Louis
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Senegal, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p4467

    p4467

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora dancing the Marseillaise (Isadora dansant la Marseillaise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1916
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4300

    p4300

    • ARTIST: Daniel Rabel (France, 1578-1637)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers of sarabande (Danseurs de sarabande)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1625
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, sarabande
  • p0097

    p0097

    • ARTIST: Charles Demuth (U.S.A., 1883-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaudeville
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1917
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.3 x 26.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5819

    s5819

    • TITLE OF WORK: Statuette of a male dancer (Attis?). Bronze
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, Bronze
    • DATE: 150
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.7 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome
  • p8358

    p8358

    • TITLE OF WORK: The farewell - Carlotta Grisi and Petipa, in the "Peri" (with Petipa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 7.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: At Drury Lane Theatre, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0531

    p0531

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nasturtiums and "The Dance" (Capucines et "La danse")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 190.5 x 114 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "Henri Matisse". In the summer of 1912 Matisse painted two variations on this theme; the other one is in the Worcester Museum, U.S.A. He chose anohter one of his paintings ("La d
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p4271

    p4271

    • ARTIST: Sultan Muhammad (Iran, 14??-15??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Allegory of wordly and otherwordly drunkenness
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, illumination, manuscipt, opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1526
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.9 x 21.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Leaf from a manuscript of a "Divan" of Hafiz (1325-1389/1390), folio 137r, Iran (Safavid period), Tabriz. Inscribed (above the doorway on the left): "The work of Sultan Muhammad Iraqi" (that is, of we
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Tabriz, Iran
  • p1103

    p1103

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kolokotronis gathers at Lerna the victors over Dramali pasha
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: Theodore Kolokotronis was a leader of the Greek insurgents of the Peloponnese during the Greek revolution against the Turks
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Lerna, Peloponnese
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p7468

    p7468

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances of Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p8127

    p8127

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Lesginka from the opera "The prisoner of Causasus", Grand Theater, Saint Petersburg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, lesghinka
  • s4269

    s4269

    • TITLE OF WORK: Casino de Paris. Nini Pattes en l'Air and her students (Casino de Paris. Nini Pattes en l'Air et ses élèves)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 118 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lith. F. Appel, Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, quadrille, music-hall
  • p9036

    p9036

    • TITLE OF WORK: The hopping procession in Echternach on 13 May (Die springende Prozession in Echternach am 13. Mai)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.6 x 31.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Luxemburg, Echternach
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion

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