Ballets Russes

It was like, it's Nijinsky kind of goes back in time and his brain through all the...

And it's set in the Ballet Russe era.

And they have all the most iconic costumes and moments from the Ballet Russe.

And it's to the Scheherazade music.

It's so beautiful.

But by nightfall, I confess I'd just about forgotten about the incident that afternoon.

Etienne showed up at my place with a couple of tickets to the Ballet Russe, and since the auditorium was air-conditioned, it was as much for an escape from the humid night as it was for a search for culture that we went.

On the way, we stopped for a bite to eat, so the curtain had gone up when we arrived.

For a few minutes, it was just another ballet performance.

He was the architect of the IMF, the International Monetary Fund.

He was, you know, married to a ballet dancer from the Ballet Russe.

He was part of the Bloomsbury group, probably queer, you know, wrote in Charleston House, spent a lot of time down there.

But I love the fact I want I want to tell that story.

Which American writer and Paris Salon host whose 1906 E7 portrait by Picasso is a landmark of his early style championed avant-garde painters and helped shape modern taste? Question 5.

Crossing from painting into the stage, Picasso designed sets and costumes for the 1917 Ballets Russes production Parade.

Which visionary impresario led that company and brought together Cocteau, Satie, Massin, and Picasso for the project? We'll be right back with these answers after this break.

Let's do the time warp again.

Her collecting and advocacy were pivotal in introducing modern art to wider audiences.

Question 5.

Who was the Ballets Russes impresario behind Picasso's 1917 Parade collaboration? Answer.

Sergei Diaghilev.

And I have a lithograph at home, which I hold with high esteem.

But yeah, she actually designed costumes and fabrics for Ballet Russe as well, which was really interesting in that having to already have that link to ballet.

But then Significant Others, not only was it the visual element was costumes inspired and painted by Sonia Delaunay.

And then I had these moving because she was all about these circular colors.

Isn't it the best part? I mean, honestly, the voyage discovery.

I did a ballet, my first full-length ballet was in Spain and it was called Picasso's Ballerina and it was all about the first wife of Picasso, Olga Kuklova.

She was a ballerina of the Ballet Russe and it was really interesting about their relationship, which was really tumultuous.

Spicy.

The ballet dropped out of the Moscow repertory, and it was not until 1894 that the enterprising Marius Petipa wrote to Moscow for the full score and produced Swan Lake with brilliant success at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on January 15, 1895.

It has since remained a repertory staple, both the current Ballets Russes and the Ballet Theatre having staged it successfully.

Pavlova, Karsavina, and Markova, among others, have interpreted the heroine Odette, and Prince Siegfried has been embodied by Nijinsky, Lifar, Mordkin, and Dolan.

Swan Lake was one of the first ballets witnessed in his youth by Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the famous Ballets Russes.

Tchaikovsky first refers to Swan Lake in a letter to Rimsky-Korsakov, dated September 10, 1875.

"I accepted the work partly because I need the money and because I have long cherished a desire to try my hand at this type of music." V.P.

Anyway, tracks 1 through 8, El Sombrero de Tres Picos, The Three-Cornered Hat.

Now, this piece grew from a request made by Serge Diaghilev for a piece for his Ballet Russe company.

Of course, the Ballet Russe and Serge Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky to write his three great ballets, The Firebird, Petrushka, and the notorious Rite of Spring.

The Ballet Russe was scheduled to tour Spain in 1916.

The work didn't get its premiere until 1919, though, during the Ballet Russe season at the Alhambra Theatre in post-war London.

Post-World War I London, that is.

Two orchestral suites were drawn from the ballet by skilled yet unattributed arrangers, and that's what we hear here.