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Leon Bakst. Costume design for "Tragédie de Salomè" by Oscar Wilde. 1908
Revising Russian ballet history
Published 27 October, 2009, 19:15
An exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of Diaghilev's “Ballets Russes” has opened at Moscow’s Tretyakov gallery.
Over 500 items connected with the most significant figure in Russian ballet and the history of ballet will be exposed at the “Dance Vision” display, part of which was seen in Monte Carlo earlier this year. Diaghilev was known for attracting his artist friends to work on the Ballet Russes.
Posters, sketches, breadboard models, stage scenery, and paintings by some of the best artists of the 20th Century – Giorgio de Chirico, Natalia Goncharova, Leon Bakst – will be seen at the expo.
Almost 50 original costumes, including constructivist costumes designed by Mikhail Larionov for “Chout” ballet (to the music by Sergei Prokofiev) and hand-painted suits for “Le Chant du Rossignol” designed by Henri Matisse are on display. There is even an original curtain brought from London created to a design by Pablo Picasso.
The expo is divided into several logical sections – classical ballet, “Orientalism", “Russian theme”, and also avant-garde productions of present days.
To list everything that one can find at this exhibition is useless, as it is a massive project where anyone can find something appealing to his or her interests, from peering at the details of costumes and drawings of celebrated artists to viewing reconstructed ballets.
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