Diaghilevs Empire How The Ballets Russes

Author : Rupert Christiansen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780374719647

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Diaghilev's Empire by Rupert Christiansen Pdf

A Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph “Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen’s] delight is infectious.” —Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review Rupert Christiansen, a renowned dance critic and arts correspondent, presents a sweeping history of the Ballets Russes and of Serge Diaghilev’s dream of bringing Russian art and culture to the West. Serge Diaghilev, the Russian impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, is often said to have invented modern ballet. An art critic and connoisseur, Diaghilev had no training in dance or choreography, but he had a dream of bringing Russian art, music, design, and expression to the West and a mission to drive a cultural and artistic revolution. Bringing together such legendary talents as Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse, this complex and visionary genius created a new form of ballet defined by artistic integrity, creative freedom, and an all-encompassing experience of art, movement, and music. The explosive color combinations, sensual and androgynous choreography, and experimental sounds of the Ballets Russes were called “barbaric” by the Parisian press, but its radical style usurped the entrenched mores of traditional ballet and transformed the European cultural sphere at large. Diaghilev’s Empire, the publication of which marks the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of Diaghilev’s birth, is a daring, impeccably researched reassessment of the phenomenon of the Ballets Russes and the Russian Revolution in twentieth-century art and culture. Rupert Christiansen, a leading dance critic, explores the fiery conflicts, outsize personalities, and extraordinary artistic innovations that make up this enduring story of triumph and disaster.

Author : Lynn Garafola
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106008771542

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Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by Lynn Garafola Pdf

The era of the Ballets Russes is probably the most chronicled in dance history, yet this book is the first to explain the company as a totality--its art, enterprise, and tudience. Taking a fresh look at familiar sources and incorporating fascinating archival material previously unexamined by Diaghilev scholars, Lynn Garafola paints an extraordinary portrait of the Ballets Russes, one that is bound to upset received opinion about the wellsprings and impact of early modernism.

Author : Jane Pritchard,Geoffrey Marsh
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1851778357

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Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 by Jane Pritchard,Geoffrey Marsh Pdf

"This book was published to coincide with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 25 September 2010-9 January 2011"--Title page verso.

Author : Mary E. Davis
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781861898852

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Ballets Russes Style by Mary E. Davis Pdf

In the two decades between its debut performance and the death of impresario Sergei Diaghilev in 1929, the Ballets Russes was an unrivalled sensation in Paris and around the world. But while scholarly attention has often centered on the links between Diaghilev’s troupe and modernist art and music, there has been surprisingly little analysis of the Ballets’ role in the area of tastemaking and trendsetting. Ballets Russes Style addresses this gap, revealing the extent of the ensemble’s influence in arenas of high style—including fashion, interior design, advertising, and the decorative arts. In Ballets Russes Style, Mary E. Davis explores how the Ballets Russes performances were a laboratory for ambitious cultural experiments, often grounded in the aesthetic confrontation of Russian artists who traveled with the troupe from St. Petersburg—Bakst, Benois, and Stravinsky among them—and the Parisian avant-garde, including Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Satie, Debussy, and Ravel. She focuses on how the ensemble brought the stage and everyday life into direct contact, most noticeably in the world of fashion. The Ballets Russes and its audience played a key role in defining Paris style, which would echo in fashions throughout the century. Beautifully illustrated, and drawing on unpublished images and memorabilia, this book illuminates the ways in which the troupe’s innovations in dance, music, and design mirrored and invigorated contemporary culture.

Author : André Tubeuf
Publisher : Ultimate
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1614280142

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Ballets Russes by André Tubeuf Pdf

The success of the Ballets Russes was legendary, but there is more to the legend than its name: the actual story, the adventure, conceived by one man and lived by a few, that lasted only eight seasons and three summers. From 1911 to 1914, Serge Diaghilev, driven by conviction and stubbornness, turned his vision into reality. He collaborated with the likes of Leon Bakst, Igor Stravinsky, and Picasso to create an explosion of creativity in Western Europe which had never before been seen in the world of art. Thanks to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the most glorious page in the history of ballet, one of the most magnificent moments in the adventure of Art, was written. To turn the pages of this stunning book, which offers rare documents from the legendary Ballets Russes from 1911 to 1914 (Monte Carlo years), is to follow Diaghilev on his creative quest--a journey that continues to influence art, theater, ballet, and fashion to this day.

Author : StephenD. Press
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351553063

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Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev by StephenD. Press Pdf

Ballet impresario Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev and composer Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev are eminent figures in twentieth-century cultural history, yet this is the first detailed account of their fifteen-year collaboration. The beginning was not trouble-free, but despite two false starts (Ala i Lolli and the first version of its successor, Chout) Diaghilev maintained his confidence in the composer. With his guidance and encouragement Prokofiev established his mature balletic style. After some years of estrangement during which Prokofiev wrote for choreographer Boris Romanov and conductor/publisher Serge Koussevitsky, Diaghilev came to the composer's rescue at a low point in his Western career. The impresario encouraged Prokofiev's turn towards 'a new simplicity' and offered him a great opportunity for career renewal with a topical ballet on Soviet life (Le Pas d'acier). Even as late as 1928-29 Diaghilev compelled Prokofiev to achieve new heights of expressivity in his characterizations (L'Enfant prodigue). Although Western scholars have investigated Prokofiev's operas, piano works, and symphonies, little attention has been paid to his early ballets written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Despite Prokofiev's devotion to opera, it was his ballets for Diaghilev as much as his concertos and solo piano works that earned his renown in Western Europe in the 1920s. Stephen D. Press discusses the genesis of each ballet, including the important contributions of the scenic designers (Mikhail Larionov, Georgy Yakulov and Georges Rouault) and the choreographer/dancers (L id Massine, Serge Lifar and George Balanchine), and the special relationship between the ballets' progenitors.

Author : Sjeng Scheijen
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847652454

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Diaghilev by Sjeng Scheijen Pdf

This magnificent new biography of the extraordinary impresario of the arts and creator of the Ballets Russes 100 years ago draws on important new research, notably from Russia. 'Scheijen masterfully recounts the phenomenal way in which Diaghilev contrived, under virtually impossible circumstances, to nurture a sequence of works ... he triumphs in making clear the degree to which, despite the cosmopolitanism of so much of the work, Russia was at the core of Diaghilev' Simon Callow, Guardian 'It's a fabulous, complicated, very sexy story and Sjeng Scheijen takes us through it with a steadying calm that fudges none of the outrage on or off stage' Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express 'Magnificent ... filled with extraordinary glamour' Rupert Christiansen, Daily Mail

Author : Lynn Garafola,Nancy Van Norman Baer,Nancy Baer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0300061765

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The Ballets Russes and Its World by Lynn Garafola,Nancy Van Norman Baer,Nancy Baer Pdf

The dance, art, music, and cultural worlds of the Ballets Russes--a dance company which helped define the avant-garde in the early part of this century--are surveyed in this book, which begins with Serge Diaghilev's influence. 200+ illustrations.

Author : Sjeng Scheijen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199751498

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Diaghilev:A Life by Sjeng Scheijen Pdf

Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, dancers and choreographers such as Nijinsky and Karsavina, Fokine and Balanchine, and artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Bakst, and Goncharova. An accomplished, flamboyant impresario of all the arts, Diaghilev became a legendary figure. Growing up in a minor noble family in remote Perm, he would become a central figure in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Berlin, and Madrid during the golden age of modern art. He lived through bankruptcy, war, revolution, and exile. Furthermore he lived openly as a homosexual and his liaisons, most famously with Nijinsky, and his turbulent friendships with Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Prokofiev, and Jean Cocteau gave his life an exceptionally dramatic quality. Scheijen's magnificent biography, based on extensive research in little known archives, especially in Russia, brings fully to life a complex and powerful personality with boundless creative energy.

Author : Juliet Bellow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351558037

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Modernism on Stage by Juliet Bellow Pdf

Modernism on Stage restores Serge Diaghilev?s Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s. During those years, the Ballets Russes? stage served as a dynamic forum for the interaction of artistic genres - dance, music and painting - in a mixed-media form inspired by Richard Wagner?s Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art). This interdisciplinary study combines a broad history of Diaghilev?s troupe with close readings of four ballets designed by canonical modernist artists: Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Henri Matisse, and Giorgio de Chirico. Experimental both in concept and form, these productions redefine our understanding of the interconnected worlds of the visual and performing arts, elite culture and mass entertainment in Paris between the two world wars. This volume traces the ways in which artists working with the Ballets Russes adapted painterly styles to the temporal, three-dimensional and corporeal medium of ballet. Analyzing interactions among sets, costumes, choreography, and musical accompaniment, the book establishes what the Ballets Russes' productions looked like and how audiences reacted to them. Juliet Bellow brings dance to bear upon modernist art history as more than a source of imagery or ornament: she spotlights a complex dialogue among art forms that did not preclude but rather enhanced artists? interrogation of the limits of medium.

Author : Lucy Moore
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847658289

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Nijinsky by Lucy Moore Pdf

'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre. Immersed in the world of dance from his childhood, he found his natural home in the Imperial Theatre and the Ballets Russes, he had a powerful sponsor in Sergei Diaghilev - until a dramatic and public failure ended his career and set him on a route to madness. As a dancer, he was acclaimed as godlike for his extraordinary grace and elevation, but the opening of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring saw furious brawls between admirers of his radically unballetic choreography and horrified traditionalists. Nijinsky's story has lost none of its power to shock, fascinate and move. Adored and reviled in his lifetime, his phenomenal talent was shadowed by schizophrenia and an intense but destructive relationship with his lover, Diaghilev. 'I am alive' he wrote in his diary, 'and so I suffer'. In the first biography for forty years, Lucy Moore examines a career defined by two forces - inspired performance and an equally headline-grabbing talent for controversy, which tells us much about both genius and madness. This is the full story of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, comparable to the work of Rosamund Bartlett or Sjeng Scheijen.

Author : Richard Shead
Publisher : Salamander Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023651115

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Ballets Russes by Richard Shead Pdf

A prodigious concentration of talent combined to produce the legendary Russian Ballet. Beginning with the charming and resourceful Sergei Diaghilev who saw the project through, this troupe featured dancers such as Nijinsky, Pavlova, and Serge Lifar, who had the benefit of music by composers such as Stravinsky, Ravel, and Debussy. Set and costume designers from among the greatest artists of the day included Picasso, di Chirico, Benois, and Cocteau. The company's initial tour to Paris in 1909 served not only to influence the dance world, but also the fashion and decorating worlds. This book stunningly pictures the Russian Bailers dancers, artists, sets, and costumes, and chronicles the renowned company's history to create a complete portrait.

Author : Evdokia Belova,E. Bocharnikova
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781646999637

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The great history of Russian ballet by Evdokia Belova,E. Bocharnikova Pdf

Although the techniques of classical ballets were invented by French and Italian masters two hundred years ago, the Russian Ballet refined these techniques, thus enhancing its already superb performances. This book uncovers the Great History of Russian Ballet, its art and choreography.

Author : Michael Meylac
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781786722058

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Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes by Michael Meylac Pdf

The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the mid-twentieth century – during the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War – the Ballets Russes companies kept the spirit and traditions of Russian ballet alive in the West, touring extensively in America, Europe and Australia. This important new book uncovers previously-unseen interviews and provides insights into the lives of the great figures of the age – from the dancers Anna Pavlova and Alicia Markova to the choreographers Leonide Massine, George Balanchine and Anton Dolin. The dancers' own words reveal what life was really like for the stars of the Ballets Russes and provide fascinating new insights into one of the most vibrant and creative groups of artists of the modern age.

Author : Boris Kochno
Publisher : London : Allen Lane
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 0713901748

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Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes by Boris Kochno Pdf