#Sergei Diaghilev

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Bronislava Nijinska, graduation picture, 1908

Bronislava Nijinska was a Russian ballet dancer of Polish descent and an innovative choreographer. In 1910 she joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where she assisted her famous brother Vaslav Nijinsky in the development of several groundbreaking choreographic works, including The Rite of Spring (1913) composed by Igor Stravinsky.

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Stage photograph of Serge Lifar in La Pastorale, performed by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1926. Photo by Alexander (Sasha) Stewart.

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Serge Lifar in Apollon Musagète, choreographed by Balanchine in 1928 to music by Stravinsky, and with costumes by Coco Chanel, for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

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BALLETS RUSSES MEME DUMP

but it's just my best ones i have more but im lazy rn

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Costume from Ballets Russes Le Coq d'Or – designed by Natalia Goncharova, from the Stockholm Dansmuseet Collection

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Anton Dolin, Dancer, London, 1923.

©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.

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Leon Bakst designs on the ceiling of the new stage

Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

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Costume and set designed by Pablo Picasso for the Russian ballet "Parade" by Sergei Diaghilev, based on a theme by Jean Cocteau with music written by Erik Satie. The first performance of Parade was at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on May 18, 1917.

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I'm planning a parallel between Ballet Russes and the Greek class of TSH and Like Minds characters in my 1920s AU fic. Like the Ballet Russes was also an insular, elitist group full of shitty gays and a cult of personality around it's leader, just to a lesser extent, without the murder/rape/incest/necrophilia stuff. Sergei Diaghilev = Julian Morrow

The Greek class are studying in Oxford btw, and at least Alex and Bunny are gonna be members of the Bullingdon Club

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Fokine’s ballets for Diaghilev had been brilliantly varied in subject matter and atmosphere—from the folkloric Petrushka and The Firebird to the subtle salon perfume of Carnaval and the exoticism of Scheherazade—as well as offering showcases for the talents of Karsavina and Nijinsky.

Rupert Christiansen, “How Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Revolutionized Dance,” Literary Hub (blog), October 19, 2022.

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Ballets Russes meme dump part 2

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remember when my all time favorite film the death of stalin namedropped nijinsky. moment in history. that being said i'll eat my hat if the real life khrushchev actually knew who he was.

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Fun fact about this role: the character here is described as being sexually ambiguous, having been labeled the following: the page boy, the girl in blue, la garçonne (which literally translates to a feminine noun version of the word "boy", and is also the subculture of flappers).

The character is seen dancing with one of the male athletes.

This ballet also depicts what seems to be a lesbian relationship between two other female characters.

The title of "Les Biches" which means "The Does" is untranslatable because of the innuendo, biche that can also signify a woman (or even a man) who is coquettish.

It is important to note that the director of the Ballets Russes Sergei Diaghilev was a gay man, as well as the composer of this ballet Francis Poulenc (predominantly), and the designer of the costumes Marie Laurencin was bisexual.

virginia johnson photographed in bronislava nijinska's les biches by jack vartoogian

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Sergei Prokofiev - Scythian Suite

The Scythian Suite by Sergei Prokofiev is a wild, explosive orchestral work with a fascinating backstory. A rejected Ballet and a bold new direction In 1915, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was a young and ambitious composer looking for his big break. He got the chance of a lifetime when Sergei Diaghilev, the mastermind behind the legendary Ballets Russes, invited him to write a ballet. The theme…

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Mstislav Doboujinsky (Russian, 1875-1957)

1914

Preliminary scene design for Papillons (Butterflies)

Gouache on paper

13 cm. x 22.2 cm. (5 1/8 in. x 8 3/4 in.)

Ballet with music by Robert Schumann and choreography by Michel Fokine (1880-1942). Produced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1914.

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1926 Two titans of the teens and twenties culture, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev at Croydon Airport, England. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.