Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0901

    s0901

    • ARTIST: Victor Ségoffin (France, 1867-1925) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sacred dance (Danse sacrée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.9 x 5.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: music, cymbals
  • s3802

    s3802

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Self-portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush
    • DATE: 1939
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Made in London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K., London
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • s0477

    s0477

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Humer (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Tytolean folk costume festival in Innsbruck on 26 August (Ein tiroler Volkstrachtenfest in Innsbruck am 26. August
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 32.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Innsbruck, Tyrol
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p9542

    p9542

    • ARTIST: S. T. Marianz
    • TITLE OF WORK: The sabre dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor over traces of pencil
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 36 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1900
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo, traditional
  • p2572

    p2572

    • ARTIST: Marie-Alexandre Adolphe (France, 1812-1883) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Amalia Ferraris in the ballet "Les Elfes"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.5 x 18.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9555

    p9555

    • ARTIST: Jan Baptist van Heil (Flanders, 1604-1685) (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A kermesse in a village street
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1720
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 114 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9631

    p9631

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers (Les danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 71 x 90.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6938

    p6938

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maypole-dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1787
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1739

    s1739

    • ARTIST: William Baggett (U.S.A., 1946-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cover for the 6th USA International Ballet Competition
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, egg tempera
    • DATE: 1998
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3497

    p3497

    • ARTIST: Georges Braque (France, 1882-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les fâcheux" by the Ballets Russes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s1643

    s1643

    • ARTIST: Pronomos Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Actors rehearsing a performance about Dionysus. Attic red-figure volute krater vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure volute krater vase
    • DATE: -400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 cm height total
    • COMMENTS: Red figure Attic volutes crater, called the Pronomos crater
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s4069

    s4069

    • ARTIST: Edmond Duthoit (France, 1837-1889)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cypriot women dancing in the background, at the festival of the Virgin Chryssoroyatissa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.5 x 13.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "??????? ??? ??????????????"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cyprus, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s1236

    s1236

    • TITLE OF WORK: How the Quality danced at the Court of George III: A minuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Reprint of a period engraving
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, court, couple
  • p9888

    p9888

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Five studies of Cambodian dancers (Cinq études de danseuses cambodgiennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
  • p1842

    p1842

    • ARTIST: Emmanuel Barcet (France, 1870-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Le sacre du printemps" (Rites of Spring)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes, Paris. Illustration for the article of Emile Vuillermoz in S.I.M. of 15/06/1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5642

    s5642

    • ARTIST: Euergides Potter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman dancing with krotala. Pottery: red-figured kylix drinking cup
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured kylix
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: Signed by Euergides as potter. Made in Attica, found in Capua, Caserta, Campania, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • p7047

    p7047

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the opera "A?da"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: "A?da", grand-opera in 4 acts and 7 scenes, by G. Verdi; Théâtre-Italien, Paris. Act 2.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, France, Italy,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p2349

    p2349

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The three dancers. Study for the engraving "Iphigénie" (Les trois danseuses. Etude pour "Iphigénie")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 36.5 x 36.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p4861

    p4861

    • ARTIST: Franz Xaver von Paumgarten (Austria, 1811-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance to the tune of a crank violin (Tanz zur Radleier)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1820
    • COMMENTS: From the family album of Carl Baumann, a merchant in Vienna. Such balls were given frequently at the house of his aunt, Franziska Salmi.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • s1378

    s1378

    • ARTIST: Knut Ekwall (Sweden, 1843-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Sylvia" by Leo Delibes: Sylvia and her Nymphs overheard by Orion. Drawn at the performance in the Royal Opera Berlin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.9 x 47.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Scene from the ballet "Sylvia" by Léo Délibes: Sylvia and her nymphs, spied by Orion. Drawin after the performance in the Royal Opera House in Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7720

    p7720

    • ARTIST: G. Jauslin (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The festive ball of the artists' union "The factory" in Stuttgart. The dance before the Duke (Das Ballfest des Künstlervereins "Das Bergwerk" in Stuttgart. Der Tanz vor dem Herzog. Lichtenstein)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.2 x 31cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s3135

    s3135

    • ARTIST: Henri Regnault (France, 1843-1871) (painting); Albert Duvivier (drawing); E. Thomas (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome (Salomé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.3 x 20 cm
    • COMMENTS: Drawn after a photograph by MM. Goupil
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Palestine, France
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible, weapon, sword,
  • p8594

    p8594

    • TITLE OF WORK: Crossing - Dance of negroes (Traversée - Danse de nègres)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, wood
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.2 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: navy, slave,
  • p0392

    p0392

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bal in the court of Henry the 3d (Bal dans la cour d'Henri III)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1581
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: court, round
  • p3118

    p3118

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Karsavina. Ballets Russes. Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Directed by Gabriel Astruc
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3705

    s3705

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673) (workshop of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the night". 1st veille ("Ballet de la nuit". 1st veille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, wash and gouache
    • DATE: 1653
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 41 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: sets
  • p2121

    p2121

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 18 cm
    • COMMENTS: During the tour of the Ballets Russes in Spain in 1916, Larionov made sketches of local dancers.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance?
  • p8820

    p8820

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the burlesque of "Aladdin, or The wonderful lamp", at the Lyceum
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.2 x 15.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, theater, burlesque
  • s5295

    s5295

    • ARTIST: O. A. Biantovskaja
    • TITLE OF WORK: Coppelia. L. Délibes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1973
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p8682

    p8682

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Cake Walk as practised in its native home
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.8 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s0305

    s0305

    • ARTIST: José Chavez y Artiz (Spain, 1839-1903)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 40 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, stage, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s4227

    s4227

    • ARTIST: Alfredo Bortoluzzi (Germany, 1905-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian national dance (Russischer Nationaltanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p5232

    p5232

    • TITLE OF WORK: The flower dance (Der Blumentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Das wiener Kinderballett in der k. Akademie für Musik zu Paris (The Children's Ballet of Vienna in the Royal Academy of Music in Paris)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p1093

    p1093

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two bacchic scenes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, marble insets
    • DATE: 200
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 67 cm
    • COMMENTS: Found in Pompei, Casa dei Capitelli Colorati
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy
  • p1700

    p1700

    • ARTIST: Otto Magnus Baron von Stackelberg (Russia, 1786-1837) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Town and port of Zakynthos-Zante (Ville et port de Zacynthe-Zante)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1834
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 40 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Zakynthos, Zante
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9371

    p9371

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Werner festival at Reichenau (Das Wernerfest zu Reichenau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 13.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Reichenau
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s2737

    s2737

    • ARTIST: T. Powell (design)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A night scene in the neighbourhood of Syndey
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1802
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia, Sydney
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0170

    s0170

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on stage (Danseuses sur la scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel over monotype in black ink on laid paper
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3692

    s3692

    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance around a circle of stakes planted … (Danse qui se fait en rond autour d'un Cercle planté de pieux…)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1720
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 9.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Louisiana, Mississipi
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s1359

    s1359

    • ARTIST: Carl Jakob Frankenbach (Germany, 1861-1937) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet lady (Ballet-Dame)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 6.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p9426

    p9426

    • ARTIST: Dionysios Tsokos (Greece, 1814-1862)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Outside the inn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 58.5 x 82.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p3203

    p3203

    • ARTIST: Christian Bérard (France, 1902-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Toumanova in the ballet "Mozartiana"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache on bistré paper
    • DATE: 1933
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 26 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Mozartiana", a ballet by Balanchine, Champs Elysées, 1933.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6879

    p6879

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Little walker (Petite marcheuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte, aquatint and drypoint
    • DATE: 1908
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p1244

    p1244

    • TITLE OF WORK: Columns of the temple of Zeus Olympian (Colonnes du temple Jupiter Olympien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1867
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1579

    p1579

    • ARTIST: August Macke (Germany, 1887-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers (Tänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache, watercolor
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.7 x 29.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p9972

    p9972

    • ARTIST: Symeon Savvidis (Turkey/Greece, 1859-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Tàncosnö)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p5111

    p5111

    • ARTIST: Folco
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a dancer in the Lido cabaret, Paris.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5492

    p5492

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The Marble Bride", fantastic ballet by Et. George and Albert ("Die Marmorbraut", phantastisches Ballet von Et. George und Albert)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7264

    p7264

    • TITLE OF WORK: A pas-de-deux by King Ludwig and 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
  • p7888

    p7888

    • ARTIST: Christoph Murer (Switzerland, 1558-1614) (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Linked sword dance in Zürich (Kettenchwerttanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color, pen and watercolor hightened with gold
    • DATE: 1578
    • COMMENTS: It is reputed that the artist (Christoph Murer) is one of the dancers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland, Zürich
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, sword
    • KEYWORDS: weapon

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