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The Peasant Dance (Dutch: De boerendans or De dorpskermis, lit. ' The Village Fair ') is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in circa 1567. It was looted by Napoleon Bonaparte and brought to Paris in 1808, being returned in 1815. [1] In is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Bauerntanz zweier Kinder (English: Peasant dance of two children), also known as Italienischer Bauerntanz (Italian peasant dance) or Italian folk dance, is an 1895 German short black-and-white silent documentary film directed by Max Skladanowsky. The film captures two children, Ploetz and Lorella, performing a dance.
Dancing mania on a pilgrimage to the church at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, a 1642 engraving by Hendrick Hondius after a 1564 drawing by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that may have had biological causes, which occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th ...
A mid-17th century painting by Jacob Duck, called The Cotillion, is the earliest possible reference to a dance with this name.. The name cotillion appears to have been in use as a dance-name at the beginning of the 18th century but, though it was only ever identified as a sort of country dance, it is impossible to say of what it consisted at that early date.
Engraving by Hendrik Hondius portraying three people affected by the plague. Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel.. The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518.
The Peasants (Polish: Chłopi) is a novel written by the Polish author Władysław Reymont in four parts between 1904 and 1909. He started writing it in 1897, but because of a railway accident and health problems, it took seven years to complete. The first parts of the story were published in the weekly magazine Tygodnik Illustrowany. The novel ...
The polonaise is a Polish dance and is one of the five historic national dances of Poland. [6] The others are the Mazur (Mazurka), Kujawiak, Krakowiak and Oberek. [7] Polonaise originated as a peasant dance known under various names – chodzony ("pacer"), chmielowy ("hops"), pieszy ("walker") or wielki ("great"), recorded as early as the 15th ...
The basic round dance goes by many names in the various countries of the region: choros, kolo, oro, horo or hora. The modern couple dance so common in western and northern Europe has only made a few inroads into the Balkan dance repertory. [29] Chain dances of a similar type to these modern dance forms have been documented from the medieval ...