#serge lifar

[catullus101]

Pablo Picasso, Two Dancers, 1925

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

The parents of Ukrainian ballet star Serge Lifar (born in Kyiv in 1905).

[angie-massei]

Serge Lifar (Сергій Михайлович Лифар), Ukrainian dancer and choreographer in Karol Szymanowski’s ballet „Harnasie”.

[lovelyballetandmore]

Posed photograph of Serge Lifar and Alexandra Danilova in Swan Lake, revived by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1926. This photograph was taken to promote the revival of The Swan Lake at the first night of the 'popular' season at the Lyceum Theatre, London, given by the Ballets Russes in November, December 1926. Swan Lake, described as a 'choreographic poem in 1 act' was the lake-side scene usually act II of the full ballet. The Morning Post had some reservations about the performances as the dancers had been ' experimenting too much in modernity to maintain the rigid accuracy and perfect technique indispensible in dancing of this kind' but did add Danilova 'was good and looked lovely'. Thechoreography was credited to Marius Petipa, music was by Piotr Tchaikovsky and the set and costumes were credited to Constanin Korovine.

[mrmousetolliver]

Elevation (1934) Serge Lifar from the book ‘Serge Lifar: Destin d’un Danseur by Andre Levinson.

[scherzokinn]

BALLETS RUSSES MEME DUMP

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

[alwaysalwaysalwaysthesea]

Serge Lifar and Félia Dubrovska in George Balanchine's production of Le Fils prodigue for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, costumes by Rouault. From the July 1929 French Vogue.

(source: Gallica)

[dance-world]

Serge Lifar (15 April 1905 - 15 December 1986) - photo by Serge Lido, 1950. Lifar, a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, is viewed as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century.

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Man Ray, Tamara Karsavina and Serge Lifar, Romeo and Juliet, 1926

[pop-sesivo]

El bailarín y coreógrafo Serge Lifar con la pistola que se utilizó en el duelo entre Alexander Pushkin y Georges d'Anthès.

Serge Lifar with the handgun which was used in the duel between Alexander Pushkin and Georges d’Anthès.

[catullus101]

Serge Lifar in Le Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune, 1932

Ph. George Platt Lynes 

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1935 Paul Colin poster of Ukrainian ballet star Serge Lifar (born in Kyiv in 1905).

[eddy25960]

Pedro Pruna - “Serge Lifar On The Beach” 1929

[lilysether]

Bisexuality never came more handy than in the context of this photo…

Serge Lifar and Tamara Toumanova in L’inconnu (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1950)

[scherzokinn]

It's so insane and funny to me that film directors of biopics feel the need to add fiction to make the film appear more interesting.

Like. why.

You don't need to come up with anything to make history more compelling.

WHY make anything up, when Friedrich Nietzsche had to buy fucking silk underwears for Richard Wagner once, Abraham Lincoln did wrestling, Victor Hugo lived in a street of his own name when he was alive, Alexandre Dumas fucking shut down a racist with an epic comeback, Edward VII had a sex chair, Tsar Nicholas II has nudes, Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso were arrested for pissing in public together, Oskar Kokoschka commissioned an Alma Mahler fetish doll which he likely had sex with, Roald Dahl wrote some weird and questionable fetish-fanfic books, Salvador Dalí sold a blade of grass to Yoko Ono for $10 000 because he thought she could do witchcraft with a real strand of his hair, etc etc...

Do we REALLY need to make shit up when we have all these batshit stories. DO WE REALLY??????

[fashionbooksmilano]

Set and costume designs for ballet and theater

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

Alexander Schouvaloff, introduction Serge Lifar

General editor Simon De Pury

The Vendome Press, New York 1987, 268 pages, 24,5x30cm, ISBN 0-865-076-4

euro 80,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

During his lifetime the late Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza acquired a collection of over fifty drawings - largely of set and costume designs - reflecting the theatre of the first half of the twentieth century, and particularly the ballet, during what was surely its most exciting and innovative period. Twenty-two of these drawings are by Leon Bakst, perhaps the most famous of all theatrical designers, whose revolutionary designs for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes played such a major part in the impact that company made during the years 1909-1929.

16/11/24