Nijinsky Dans La Peri - Ballets Russes

Now here's a vintage ballet theatre programme illustrated by Leon Bakst that I haven't played with! I bought it from Mindy Somers at Vintage Art... more

by Sarah Vernon

Title

Nijinsky Dans La Peri - Ballets Russes

Artist

Sarah Vernon

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Art

Description

Now here's a vintage ballet theatre programme illustrated by Leon Bakst that I haven't played with! I bought it from Mindy Somers at Vintage Art Download and gave it a soupcon of restorative magic.

The incomparable Vaslev Nijinsky (1890-1950) was so famous a dancer with Sergei Diaghilev's (1872-1929) Les Ballets Russes that he, along with Diaghilev, was one of the few people known the world over by surname alone; both are inextricably linked with early 20th century arts. Nijinsky went on to choreograph Debussy's L'Apres-midi d'un faune (1912) and Stravinsky's (1882-1971) The Rite of Spring (1913), which impresario Diaghilev produced. Ballets Russes was founded by the latter in 1909 and Stravinsky was not the only composer to be commissioned. Also included were Satie (1866-1925) and Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), while there were sets designed by Picasso (1881-1973) and Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). Names to conjure with indeed. Add fellow dancers, Michael Fokine (1880-1942), Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) and George Balanchine (1904-83), and you can see why the company was so instrumental in reviving ballet as an art form.

Uploaded

February 15th, 2016

Statistics

Viewed 606 Times  -  Last Visitor from Cupertino, CA on 04/14/2019 at 10:29 AM

Colors

Embed

Sales Sheet

Tags