Dance History Gallery

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  • p6786

    p6786

    • ARTIST: Lily Arlioti (Greece, 1908-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, glue on wood
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 161.5 x 115 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • p8668

    p8668

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from Mr. Henry Russell's new entertainment, at the Olympic Theatre - The negro festival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular. traditional, couple
  • s5754

    s5754

    • TITLE OF WORK: Humorous cartoon: a fox makes a wild goat dance to the sound of the double oboe (Dessin humoristique : un renard fait danser un bouquetin au son du double hautbois)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on a limestone burst
    • DATE: -1250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.7 x 8.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ramessid period
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Egypt
    • KEYWORDS: animal, goat, fox
  • s1704

    s1704

    • ARTIST: Theodor Aman (Romania, 1831-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Popular dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and India ink
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.3 x 16.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9410

    p9410

    • ARTIST: Marten van Cleve I (Flanders, 1527?-1581?) (follower of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants dancing at a wedding feast
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1670
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 79.5 x 110.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Adaptation of the painting by Pieter Breughel the Elder
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s2064

    s2064

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "Zeibekiko" by Costas Logaras
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p9500

    p9500

    • ARTIST: Ernst Herter (Germany, 1846-1917) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing maenad (Tanzende Mänade)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 12.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of the three winners of the Kaiser Wilhelm's prize for the enlargement of the marble figures of daaancing maenads in the Royal Museum of Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany
  • p4536

    p4536

    • TITLE OF WORK: Funerary dance (Danse funèbre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Danses de l'Ancienne Grèce". Produits Liebig
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • p3457

    p3457

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1932
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p3259

    p3259

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Application of the sixth position (Application de la sixième position)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3968

    s3968

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer and six musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Aurangabad
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional
  • p9855

    p9855

    • ARTIST: Yves Brayer (France, 1907-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer's kiss (Le baiser de la danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: circus
  • s2716

    s2716

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Croatian national dances, no. 14
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 14
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s1150

    s1150

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Haka. The Poi dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: New Zealand
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0929

    s0929

    • ARTIST: Paul Renouard (France, 1845-1924) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebrating May Day: Paying homage to the queen at the conclusion of the maypole dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.8 x 48.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: popular, maypole
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p3869

    p3869

    • ARTIST: Pedro Figari (Uruguay, 1861-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gauchos dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Uruguay
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s5618

    s5618

    • ARTIST: Myson Painter
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young man dancing with krotala. Attic red-figure column krater
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, terracotta red-figure vase
    • DATE: -485
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 34.5 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Greek, Attic
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • p1089

    p1089

    • ARTIST: Pieter van der Heyden (Flanders, 1530?-1570?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the bride in the open air
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving au burin
    • DATE: 1580
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.5 x 42.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of the many engravings copying the "Dance of the bride in the open air" by Bruegel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1196

    s1196

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kalmyk dance (Danse kalmouke)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.8 x 23.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Kalmyk, Kalmuck, Mongolia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tent, luth
  • p0038

    p0038

    • ARTIST: René Magritte (Belgium, 1898-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The beautiful unknown (La belle inconnue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s4938

    s4938

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Backstage of the Opera at the Grevin Museum (Les Coulisses de l'Opéra au Musée Grévin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster
    • DATE: 1891
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3613

    s3613

    • ARTIST: Milein Cosman (Germany, 1921-) (probably)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ram Gopal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional, folk
  • s4325

    s4325

    • ARTIST: Benneian
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maeva
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, glass
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 140 x 63 x 45 cm
    • COMMENTS: Plateau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet
  • p1689

    p1689

    • ARTIST: Nils von Dardel (Sweden, 1888-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Maison de fous": The Clown and The Prince
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pencil and watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 31.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Suédois
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0847

    s0847

    • ARTIST: William Hatherell (U.K., 1855-1928) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Armenia after the massacres: The bridegroom's procession at a Moslem wedding at Adana
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 30.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Adana
    • DANCE FORM: processional, traditional, male
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword, street, shawm, tambourine, torch
  • p2563

    p2563

    • ARTIST: Eduard Kaiser (Austria, 1820-1895) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni (the younger) as Satanella in the ballet with the same title
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 43.5 x 28.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1672

    s1672

    • ARTIST: Zhang Ziyi
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ansai waist drums
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, linen
    • DATE: 1984
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 102 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • p2843

    p2843

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Sylphides"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1983
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Alicia Alonso, music by Fr. Chopin, National Ballet of Cuba. Athens, Lycabettus Theater, June 1983.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9372

    p9372

    • ARTIST: Gustav Dittenberger (1794-1879) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saint Severin blesses the Austrian country (Der heilige Severin segnet das Land Oestereich)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.9 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9970

    p9970

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of the actor Ukon Genzaemon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, color on paper
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80.3 x 25.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Style of the Edo period
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • KEYWORDS: theater, fan
  • p9559

    p9559

    • ARTIST: Agostino Galinas (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance (Spanischer Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.4 x 48.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p8848

    p8848

    • ARTIST: N. M. Fedorov
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Ekaterina Sankovskaya (or Yekaterina Sankowskaia)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Ekaterina Sankovskaya (1816, Moscow - 28 August 1878, Moscow) was a Russian dancer who graduated from the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet School in 1836.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p2110

    p2110

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Buffoon beating his wife
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.3 x 27.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9721

    p9721

    • ARTIST: Peeter van Bredael (Flanders, 1629-1719)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Roman river landscape with peasants resting with sheep and cattle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72.2 x 111.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome, Belgium, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
  • p3597

    p3597

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Viennese dance (Ein Weaner Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 11.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Pictures from Vienna: A Sunday afternoon in the Volksprater
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Germany, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, couple
  • p6869

    p6869

    • ARTIST: Will H. Bradley (U.S.A., 1868-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The skirt dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1894
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p0681

    p0681

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Egyptian professional dancers (Tanz ägyptischer Gawassi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
  • p5481

    p5481

    • TITLE OF WORK: Jean Dauberval in "Pas de deux africain"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7069

    p7069

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cracovienne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s1405

    s1405

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lent in Paris - Bal of the laundresses at the Popincourt wash basin (La mi-carême à Paris - Bal des blanchisseuses au lavoir Popincourt)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.4 x 23.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Mid-Lent in Paris - The washerwomen's ball at the Pipincourt wash-basin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: organ, clarinet
  • p0184

    p0184

    • ARTIST: Catherina Fildissakou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s1678

    s1678

    • ARTIST: Orens Denizard (France, 1879-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caroline Otero (Otéro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1905
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, stage
    • KEYWORDS: Otero, portrait
  • p4964

    p4964

    • TITLE OF WORK: Opening of the Almack's balls in London (Eröffnung der Almacksbälle in London)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p5359

    p5359

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers (Danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, wash
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Work of the French school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p0571

    p0571

    • ARTIST: Raoul Larche (France, 1860-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figural lamp of Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze chiselled and gilt, office lamp
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery, light
  • s3568

    s3568

    • ARTIST: Johann Rudolf Füssly (Switzerland, 1737-1806)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Serbian Border Guards
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1780
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 31.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "Fuessly 1779"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Verbunk
    • KEYWORDS: recruiting, military, weapon, knife
  • p8775

    p8775

    • ARTIST: H. Harrison (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet of "Fiorita et la reine des Elfrides", at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.8 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Carolina Rosati and Marie Taglioni danced in this ballet
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1466

    s1466

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Helba Huara and her evils. Luecca: dance of the Inca sorcerer taking the form of the most varied animals
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 8.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru, France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p2850

    p2850

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Black Ballet Jazz company
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1984
    • COMMENTS: Athens, Lycabettus Theater, 15/07/1984.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: jazz
  • s3485

    s3485

    • ARTIST: György Koppàny
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple and two flutists
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1941
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular

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