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Dance

Eadweard Muybridge, Dancing (fancy)

Our Collection

> 2 years ago

The RA Collection in 250 objects: Dance

To celebrate our 250th birthday, we’re highlighting 250 beautiful, odd and inspiring objects from the RA Collection in 25 themes. In this edition we put on our dancing shoes to tap, twirl and stomp our way from antiquity to today.
Installation view of Jasper Johns: 'Something Resembling Truth'

RA Exhibitions

< 3 years ago

Sex, death and religion in Jasper Johns’s ‘Dancers on a Plane’

A tribute to the artist’s lifelong choreographer friend, this painting is full of symbols and allusions that aren’t immediately clear. Here, art historian Simon Wilson takes a close look at the work’s testicles, cutlery and fancy footwork.
Chris Wilkinson, Landscape to Portrait

Inside the Academy

> 8 years ago

Bringing dance to the RA’s Courtyard

Choreographer Katie Green created a site-specific dance to accompany Chris Wilkinson RA’s ‘From Landscape to Portrait’.