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The Acrobatic Dancer
Dance technique today, whether classical, modern or urban, embodies movements derived from acrobatics. High leg extensions, the splits and acrobatic lifts have become part of the dance vocabulary. The great choreographer George Balanchine embraced acrobatic movements into his magnificent ballets. Twentieth century choreographers have followed suit and contemporary break dancers do no less when they… Read more
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Dancing on the Musicians Shoulders
Perusing through many illuminated manuscripts I noticed that the same or very similar motifs regularly appeared. One would expect rabbits, unicorns, dragons, monkeys, grotesques and jugglers to make frequent appearances but to repeatedly find dancing ladies standing on the shoulders on their musical companions was rather surprising. The dancer perched on the musician’s shoulder motif… Read more
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Dancing on a Vine
The celebrated Italian painters Giotto, Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Andrea di Bonaiuto painted dance images in the 14th century. As early as 1306 Giotto painted a fresco of a peasant couple dancing to the accompaniment of a musician. Another famous image is the fresco Allegory of Good Government in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena (Ambrozio Lorenzetti… Read more
14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century Adriaen Brouwer Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne Adriaen van Ostade Albrecht Dürer Alma-Tadema art Arthurian Legends Bal des Ardents ballet Bergen School Bernard Picart Burgundian Court CoBrA Constant Cornelis Dusart Cornelis Massijs dance Dance/Dancers Dance around the Golden Calf dancers David Ryckaert III David Teniers the Younger David Vinckboons De Stijl Egg dance Else Berg Erhard Schön Flemish Art Frans Francken II Frans Huysmans George Hendrik Breitner Gertrud Leistikow Gillis Mostaert Hans Bol Harmen Meurs Henri Braakensiek Herman Bieling Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Francken the Younger Isaac Israels Isaac van Ostade Jacob Grimmer Jacob Savery I Jacobus van Looy Jan Brueghel the Elder Jan Mandijn & followers Jan Miense Molenaer Jan Sierhuis Jan Sluijters Jan Steen Jean-Baptiste Vanmour Jean de Wavrin Jean Froissart Johan Braakensiek Karel Appel Karel van Mander Kees Maks Kees van Dongen Leo Gestel Loyset Liédet Lucas van Valckenborch Maarten van Heemskerck Maastricht Hours Marius Bauer Marten van Cleve Mommie Schwarz Mondrian Paolo Fiammingo/Pauwels Franck Pieter Aertsen Pieter Balten/Peeter Baltens Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Brueghel the Younger Pieter Codde Pieter de Bloot Pieter van der Borcht Pieter van der Heyden Piet Mondrian Piet van der Hem Romance of Alexander Roman de la Rose Rothschild Canticles Salome Sebald Beham Simon Bening Stallman Pim Tango Theo van Doesburg Toer van Schayk Vilmos Huszár Vincent van Gogh Willem de Zwart Willy Sluiter
About me
As a young aspiring dancer I loved to ponder over the magnificent paintings created by Edgar Degas. How his ballerinas inspired me. The atmosphere of the Paris Opera, the beautiful tutus and the hard working dancers never failed to trigger my imagination. As the years past, I retained my love of dance, of Degas, of art, and developed an interest in knowing more about the cross fertilization between art and dance.
DANCE IMAGES IN THE ART OF THE NETHERLANDS 