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s3350
TITLE OF WORK: Musician an a bull and dancer on foot
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination
DATE: 1800
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Ottoman
DANCE FORM: traditional, solo male
KEYWORDS: animal
p3294
ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance with red short-sleeved shirt
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, Pastel on painted craft paper
DATE: 1978
DIMENSIONS: 27.2 x 12 cm
COMMENTS: Dated 12/04/1978
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
KEYWORDS: rebetiko
p8892
TITLE OF WORK: Calotta Grisi as Gianina in the ballet "Zingaro"
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1830
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p5442
ARTIST: Eugène Boudin (France, 1824-1898)
TITLE OF WORK: Wedding at Quimper (Noce à Quimper)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1688
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
DANCE FORM: traditional
p5621
TITLE OF WORK: The cake-walk, sign of merriment, is danced with the negro girls (Le cake-walk, signe d'allégresse, se danse avec les negresses)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
DATE: 1905
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
DANCE FORM: ballroom
p0708
ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste A.-H. Hilaire or Hilair (France, 1753-1822)
TITLE OF WORK: Turkish feast (Fête turque)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving (eau forte et burrin)
DATE: 1782
DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 22.5 cm
COMMENTS: See also the original drawing for this print s3403
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
DANCE FORM: traditional
p5754
ARTIST: Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (France, 1717-1806)
TITLE OF WORK: The ballet "Sylvia"
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1750
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: court
p2485
ARTIST: Levasseur (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: Paolo Samengo and Amalia Brugnoli in the ballet "L'anneau magique"
TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
DATE: 1832
DIMENSIONS: 28 x 17.5 cm
COMMENTS: London, King's Theatre, 1932
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Italy, London
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p7242
ARTIST: Jean-Honoré Fragonard (France, 1732-1806)
TITLE OF WORK: Terpsichore
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1770
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Terpsichore was the Greek muse of the dance
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, France
p7721
TITLE OF WORK: Ballet in the theater of Kyoto (Ballet im Theater zu Kyoto)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1873
DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 30.2 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, Germany
KEYWORDS: theater
p9356
TITLE OF WORK: "Harlequin Humpty Dumpty", at the Lyceum Theatre
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1869
DIMENSIONS: 16.2 x 23.6 cm
COMMENTS: "Harlequin Humpty Dumpty, or The old woman from Babyland", pantomime danced by Frederick Vokes as Harlequin
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
DANCE FORM: stage, duo
KEYWORDS: theater, pantomime
s1526
ARTIST: Lewis Baumer (U.K., 1870-1963) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: The Erasmic Twins, violet and Blanche. Beauty born of the foam. Erasmic Peerless Soap
TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
DATE: 1928
DIMENSIONS: 33 x 23 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
KEYWORDS: advertisement
p6449
TITLE OF WORK: Entertainment in the barracks of the Scottish volunteers (Divertissements au cantonnement des volontaires écossais)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1882
DIMENSIONS: 25 x 21. 3 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
DANCE FORM: traditional
p1488
ARTIST: Albert Guillaume (France 1873-1942)
TITLE OF WORK: The waltz (La valse)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph
DATE: 1900
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, waltz
p1574
ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene with two figures (Tanzszene mit zwei Figuren)
TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
DATE: 1920
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 47.8 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
s0547
ARTIST: Hans Arp (Germany, 1886-1966)
TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1923
KEYWORDS: abstract
s2167
TITLE OF WORK: The dance class (Die Tanzstunde)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
DATE: 1910
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
DANCE FORM: couple
KEYWORDS: instruction
p8459
ARTIST: Ph. Blanchard (drawing); Godefroy Durand (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the nobility at Tiflis; the Darbaz, the Lesguinka (Bal de la noblesse, à Tiflis. Le Darbaz, la Lesguinka)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1857
DIMENSIONS: 15.6 x 23 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia
DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, darbaz, lesghinka
p4507
ARTIST: Markos Zarikos (Greece)
TITLE OF WORK: Tsamikos dance
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, tempera
DATE: 1993
DIMENSIONS: 70 x 100 cm
COMMENTS: From the series "Ta choreftika", published in a booklet for the New Year 1993
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
DANCE FORM: traditional, tsamikos
p1970
ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
TITLE OF WORK: Margot Fonteyn in the ballet "Nocturne"
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1947
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p3708
ARTIST: Claude Lepape (France, 1913-)
TITLE OF WORK: End of the rehearsal. "Can we go undress ourselves?"
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1930
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Moulin Rouge music-hall, Paris
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: music-hall
p3534
ARTIST: Bruno Zach (Austria, 1891-1935)
TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, ivory and onyx
DATE: 1920
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, U.S.A.
DANCE FORM: modern
KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
s3273
ARTIST: Elza Köveshàzi-Kalmàr (Hungary, 1876-1956)
TITLE OF WORK: Dancing woman - Butterfly (Tàncosnö - Lepke)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
DATE: 1911
DIMENSIONS: 11.7 cm height
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
DANCE FORM: modern, solo
p0749
TITLE OF WORK: Two celestial dancers
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
DATE: 1200
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, Angkor
s5034
ARTIST: Celso Lagar (Spain, 1891-1966)
TITLE OF WORK: The ballerina
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1950
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 32 x 22.5 cm
COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: ballet, classical dance, solo
p3166
TITLE OF WORK: Richard Flexmore
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1850
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
KEYWORDS: theater
s6093
TITLE OF WORK: Kalathiskos dancer
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, gem intaglio
DATE: 90
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 10 x 7 mm; D. 2.5 mm
COMMENTS: 1st to 2nd century AD
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome, Italy
p9902
TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler in the character of La Sylphide
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1843
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Austria
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p0962
TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Yogini
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
DATE: 1700
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Thailand
DANCE FORM: traditional
KEYWORDS: religion, deity, divinity
s3969
TITLE OF WORK: The dances of all nations
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
DATE: 1970
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DANCE FORM: solo, couple
s3859
ARTIST: Marianne von Werefkin (Russia, 1860-1938)
TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff dancing 1
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1911
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
DANCE FORM: modern
p6218
ARTIST: Thomas Theodor Heine (Germany, 1867-1948)
TITLE OF WORK: We dance on a volcano (Wir tanzen auf einem Vulkan)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1910
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
p9535
ARTIST: Henri Gervex (France, 1852-1929)
TITLE OF WORK: A ballet dancer at the barre
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
DATE: 1895
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 53 x 36 cm
COMMENTS: Signed
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
s3912
ARTIST: Philippe Petit
TITLE OF WORK: Alexandre Sakharoff (Alexander Sacharoff) in "Pavane Royale"
TYPE OF WORK: Print, drawing
DATE: 1922
COMMENTS: From an unidentified newspaper
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
DANCE FORM: modern, solo
p2792
TITLE OF WORK: Auvergne. La Bourrée dance (Auvergne. La Bourrée)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1950
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: folk, bourrée
p8106
ARTIST: Fernand Allard d'Ollivier (Belgium, 1883-1933) (painting)
TITLE OF WORK: Dance of a witch or medicine-woman of the Usumbura region, north of Lake Tanganyika (Danse d'une sorcière ou femme-médecin de la région d'Usumbura, nord du lac Tanganyka)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, after a watercolor
DATE: 1920
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 10 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Tanzania, France
DANCE FORM: traditional
KEYWORDS: therapy, magic
p8382
ARTIST: Edward Goodall (U.K., 1794-1870) (painting)
TITLE OF WORK: "La fête de mariage", painted by Goodall
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1844
DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 21.2 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
DANCE FORM: popular
p0131
ARTIST: Luigi Mayer (Italy, 1755-1803)
TITLE OF WORK: Tatooed dancers (Danseuses tatouées)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint
DATE: 1801
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Maghreb
DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, professional, Oriental
s1894
ARTIST: Aubrey Hammond (U.K., 1894-1940) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: Folk dances
TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
DATE: 1926
DIMENSIONS: 11 x 5 cm
COMMENTS: The English Folk Dance Society began the New Year with an All-England Festival at the Imperial Institute, London
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
DANCE FORM: folk, solo
KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
p5683
TITLE OF WORK: "Dance for three"
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
DATE: 1463
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
DANCE FORM: court
p6047
ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904) (painting)
TITLE OF WORK: The sabre dance (Der Säbeltanz)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1882
DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 32.1 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
p5453
TITLE OF WORK: L'anglaise, a country dance in columns (L'anglaise. Contredanse en colonne)
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1820
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: court
s3847
TITLE OF WORK: Marietta Baderna, ballerina
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1850
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Baderna was a pupil of Carlo Blasis and his wife Annunziata Ramaccini at the Scala di Milano
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Milano
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p7206
TITLE OF WORK: Christmas waltz
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, music score
DATE: 1865
DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 24 cm
COMMENTS: "Christmas waltz", by Daniel Godfrey, bandmaster Grenadier Guards, composer of the "Guards", "Mabel" and "Hilda" waltzes
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
DANCE FORM: ballroom
KEYWORDS: musical score
s1917
ARTIST: Albert Weisgerber (Germany, 1878-1915) (design)
TITLE OF WORK: Sent M'ahesa
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
DATE: 1911
DIMENSIONS: 97.5 x 81 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Latvia, Germany
DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
s1490
TITLE OF WORK: Cham dancer (Danseur cham)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
DATE: 750
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Palais d'Indochine" by Robert de Beauplan
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
DANCE FORM: solo
p1750
ARTIST: Marie Lemercier (drawing), R. Joukovsky (sketch)
TITLE OF WORK: Ticket office. Selling tickets for a performance by Marie Taglioni
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
DATE: 1842
DIMENSIONS: 25.6 x 33.2 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
s1156
TITLE OF WORK: A group of waltzers, from a print of abour 1820
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1899
DIMENSIONS: 8.1 x 12.6 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
DANCE FORM: waltz, ballroom, couple
KEYWORDS: music, harp
p4065
ARTIST: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spain, 1841-1920)
TITLE OF WORK: Carnival feast (Fiesta de Carnaval)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1897
DIMENSIONS: 65.5 x 111 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
DANCE FORM: popular
p8575
ARTIST: Karl Eduard von Gebhardt (Germany, 1838-1925) (painting)
TITLE OF WORK: Grandfather's birthday dance (Grossvaters Geburtstagstanz)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
DATE: 1896
DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 31.5 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
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