#Sergei Diaghilev

[catullus101]

Pablo Picasso, Two Dancers, 1925

[scherzokinn]

BALLETS RUSSES MEME DUMP

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

[eohoppeofficial]

Anton Dolin, Dancer, London, 1923.

©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.

[fashionlandscapeblog]

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.

[lillamolntuss]

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

[anthropologistfromentropy]

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

[sergestavisky]

Leon Bakst designs on the ceiling of the new stage

Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

[nicoooooooon]

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.

[gracie-bird]

Princess Grace talks to two small ballerinas at the inauguration of the Sergei Diaghilev Exhibition at the Winter Sporting Club in Monaco in 1973. Photo by R. de Hoé.

[catullus101]

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

[scherzokinn]

Ballets Russes meme dump part 2

[eohoppeofficial]

Tamara Karsavina as Columbine in 'Le Carnival,' London, 1912.

©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.

[anthropologistfromentropy]

I'm giddy and excited about my own fic again!! 😅 I'm pretty happy with my life, but tbh I'm low key envious of some of my characters, I want to live in 1920 in the world of my fic. To be friends with everyone at Felix Yusupov's fashion house, Ballet Russes, Edward Carpenter and the unhinged Classics students at Oxford 🤩

(Though I would not want to be any of the Classics students, they are characters from Secret History and Like Minds, and truly going through the horrors. Like canon, but with additional sexual abuse and trauma.)

I love the seemingly unlikely friendships and collaborations that still make perfect sense. Like Trotsky's gay tailor brother, Alixander Bronstein, being friends with Mathilde Kschessinskaya 😂 Like yeah, the Bolsheviks stole her house and clothes and she's gonna be pissed off even after getting them back/being compensated for losing her house. Yes she's married to a Romanov. But also Alixander's boyfriend Felix Yusupov is her old friend, their fashion house designs costumes for Mathilde's ballet school and Ballet Russes (as well as the Mariinsky theater and ballet school in Russia).

(And tbf, even historically Trotsky and Mathilde Kschessinskaya were connected by just 2 people: Georgy Chicherin and Sergei Diaghilev. It was a small circle lmao).

Also the fashion house is secretly an espionage agency of Russia (Georgy Chicherin is the foreign minister and Yusupov's boyfriend). They are all working together to spread socialism and decriminalize homosexuality in England lol, and in an espionage war with the MI6. Like a weird 1920s Cold War centered around gays and ballet dancers - and the unhinged Classics students (most of whom who are gay and have committed murder)

[womens-vintage]

The Theatre Royal d'Anvers (Royal Theatre of Antwerp) is a historic theater located in the city of Antwerp, Belgium. It was founded in 1827 and has since hosted many famous performers and productions.

"A. Coryn" refers to the theater's director at the time, whose full name was Alphonse Coryn. Coryn was the director of the Theatre Royal d'Anvers for ten years, from 1905 to 1915.

The "Ballets Russes" were a renowned ballet company founded by the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev in 1909. The Ballets Russes was known for its groundbreaking choreography, music, and design, and had a significant influence on the development of ballet as an art form. The Ballets Russes performed at the Theatre Royal d'Anvers under the direction of Diaghilev in the early 20th century, and their performances were highly anticipated and well-received by audiences.

The "Societe des Nouveaux Concerts et Royale d'Harmonie" was a musical society in Antwerp that organized concerts and performances. The society was responsible for sponsoring the Ballets Russes performances at the Theatre Royal d'Anvers.

[scherzokinn]

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

[alliluyevas]

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.