Death did not discriminate between kings and commoners, priests and peasants. Typical artistic representations of the Dance of Death ... designed this series of 41 woodcuts in 1526, while still ...

or dance of death. Skeletons and cadavers draped with putrified flesh cavorted with the living in murals and woodcuts, mingling with people from across social classes as reminders of the fate they ...

which included peasant figures engaged in scenes of everyday life, from gentle winter or beach landscapes, to barn and cottage interiors, to halts by roadside inns, and to festive village occasions, ...

It marked the formal beginning of the Hungarian Peasant ball festivities. In the seats and boxes of the Garden fully 8,000 people looked down upon a quaint scene depicted by native costumed ...

Characters scurry on and off inexplicably, their primitive, thick-hewn dance shapes like the contours of peasant woodcuts, their setting a surreal collection of architectural features; steps that ...

It is certainly alive and well in this beautiful production, which looks like an ageing lithograph but is powered by 21st century bravura dancing ... The peasant girl, Giselle, is courted by ...