Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0342

    s0342

    • ARTIST: Eugenio Lucas Villaamil (Spain, 1858-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pierrot and Columbine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 68 x 38.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s2306

    s2306

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "United Nations": Finale, full stage
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1933
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p7934

    p7934

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male Maya dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on plate
    • DATE: 650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Plate from Uaxactum
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Guatemala
  • s2817

    s2817

    • ARTIST: Eugène Ronjat (1822-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Women's dance (Danse des femmes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 9.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Six semaines à Java"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7132

    p7132

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball on the admiral ship "Royal Alfred" outside Barbadoes, West Indies (Ball auf dem Admiralschiff "Royal Alfred" auf der Rhede von Barbadoes, Westindien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Germany, Barbados
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: military, navy
  • s5328

    s5328

    • ARTIST: Christian Rohlfs (Germany, 1849-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing female nude
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil, reproduction on canvas
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.5 x 60 cm
    • COMMENTS: Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • p8915

    p8915

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tapestry design for the ballet "Le pavillon d'Armide", scene 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and blanc de céruse on carton
    • DATE: 1907
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p1615

    p1615

    • ARTIST: Sonia Delaunay (France, 1885-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Composition dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored pencils and gouache
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.5 x 27.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p7973

    p7973

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Petrouchka"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7844

    p7844

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Salvatore Vigano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • p9357

    p9357

    • TITLE OF WORK: A state ball at the Tuileries
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s5404

    s5404

    • ARTIST: António Carvalho da Silva (Portugal, 1850-1893)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portugueses and Spanish customs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 0
  • s3034

    s3034

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Death-Demons in the Hemis Monastery
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: From "The Buddhism of Tibet" by L. Austin Waddell, published by W. H. Allen & Co., London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Tibet
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: lama, stick
  • s4879

    s4879

    • ARTIST: Komala Varadan (India, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Indonesian dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1999
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, solo
  • s2193

    s2193

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Subway" No. 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p8904

    p8904

    • ARTIST: Le Faget
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jules Perrot in the divertissement of the ballet "Robert le diable"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0211

    s0211

    • ARTIST: Moric Szekulay (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From folk life in Raitz: The Dodolo (Aus dem raitzischen Volksleben: Das Dodolo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.6 x 23.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: child, rain, water
  • p9016

    p9016

    • ARTIST: Leo von Elliot (Germany, 1816-1890) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scenes from J. Offenbach's newest opera "Madame l'Archiduc" (Scenen aus J. Offenbach's neuster Oper "Madame l'Archiduc")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 33.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Drawn at the performance in Brusells
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p3575

    p3575

    • ARTIST: Adolphe Monticelli (France, 1824-1886)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Picture of a ball in Greece (Imagine di un ballo della Grecia)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p7628

    p7628

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker dancing behind bars
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • s4708

    s4708

    • ARTIST: Louis Valtat (France, 1869-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p9934

    p9934

    • ARTIST: Eduardo Léon Garrido (Spain, 1856-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 64 x 80.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p6257

    p6257

    • TITLE OF WORK: Basque types. The fandango dance (Types basques. Le fandango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1955
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: folk, Spanish dance
  • p4142

    p4142

    • ARTIST: Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (France, 1755-1830)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country wedding
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s4095

    s4095

    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sketch from a mural painting
    • DATE: 1290
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Lakonia, Chrysafa
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • s0716

    s0716

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Malay Kalifa in Capetown
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 21.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Malaysia, South Africa, Cape Town
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, knife
  • p0060

    p0060

    • ARTIST: Jean Béraud (France, 1849-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Backstage at the Opera (Les coulisses de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 54 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower left "Jean Beraud 1889"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s3186

    s3186

    • ARTIST: Stanley Roseman (U.S.A., 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nicolas Le Riche in the ballet "Le jeune homme et la mort"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • s0031

    s0031

    • ARTIST: Jules Desbois (France, 1851-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome (Salomé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Israel, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p4818

    p4818

    • ARTIST: George Cruikshank (U.K., 1792-1878) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1822
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p9654

    p9654

    • ARTIST: Adolphe Yvon (France, 1817-1893)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A whirling dervish
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 19.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, France
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, traditional, whirling, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p7400

    p7400

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of Timbuctu (La danse de Tombouctou)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 9 cm
    • COMMENTS: A dance of the A?ssaoua tribe of Algeria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Algeria, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0801

    p0801

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Narcisse": Béotiennes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor, gouache, gold and silver on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 67.9 x 48.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Narcisse", ballet by the Ballets Russes, 1911, Théâtre du Casino, Monte Carlo. Choreography by Mikhail Fokine; music by Nikolai Tcherepnin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia, France, Monaco, Monte Carlo,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4199

    p4199

    • ARTIST: Ximénez Harrainz
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danza)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • p7867

    p7867

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.9 x 24.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5628

    s5628

    • TITLE OF WORK: Neck fragment of a pithos showing a female figure and two satyrs dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, pottery
    • DATE: -575
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 cm height
    • COMMENTS: The dance may be in honour of the gods of corn or wine.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Crete
  • p6905

    p6905

    • ARTIST: B. Eheknecht (drawing); Berniswerth (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance couple and lutist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1742
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p8862

    p8862

    • ARTIST: Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (Russia, 1861-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Salambô"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Alexander Gorsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p0556

    p0556

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Dardanus": The Magician
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1745
    • COMMENTS: "Dardanus", a ballet on music by Rameau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4528

    s4528

    • ARTIST: Maurice Charpentier-Mio (France, 1881-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches of dance gestures. Isadora Duncan at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1910 (Croquis de gestes dansés. Isadora Duncan au Théâtre du Châtelet en 1910)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze plaquette
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p4591

    p4591

    • ARTIST: Justus van den Nypoort (Netherlands, 1625-1692)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Haiduk dance in front of the town Kapronca - Coppreüniz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1686
    • COMMENTS: Coppreüniz (or Kopernica, Kapronca, Koprivnica) is a town in the region of Hont, South Slovakia.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s5957

    s5957

    • TITLE OF WORK: Painting; two girls and a boy dance against a void background
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, opaque on paper
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.6 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: Each figure is spaced equal distance apart, with arms extended. No text. Opaque watercolour on paper. The figures in this painting have been identified as two girls and a boy, the figure in the centre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Qajar
  • s2286

    s2286

    • ARTIST: Maurice de Lambert (France, 1873-1952) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome's dance (La danse de Salomé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 28 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1921

    p1921

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • p2964

    p2964

    • ARTIST: Jules Kossak (Poland, 1829-1899)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wesola Wojna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Tra-ra-ra... antek na harmonji gra. Ser. 186/10
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p6607

    p6607

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing faun (Fauno danzante)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, statuette
    • DATE: -20
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Greco-Roman art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome, Greece
  • s3673

    s3673

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Poster of the Ballets Russes. Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Le spectre de la rose"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 175 x 125 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p7011

    p7011

    • ARTIST: Oskar Schlemmer (Germany, 1888-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the "Triadic ballet": Ambulant, Architecture, Marionette, Technical Organism, Dematerialization
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
    • KEYWORDS: choreography, costume
  • s1093

    s1093

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Jack and the beanstalk" at the Crystal Palace: The dance of the villagers of Cowslipdale
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: stage, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p5871

    p5871

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaishnavite adorators dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, wood, book cover
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Bengale
    • KEYWORDS: religion

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