Conservation: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Discover incredible costume and poster designs from some of the greatest artists of the early 20th century including Picasso, Bakst, De Chirico and Matisse, as we look at the conservation challenges posed by the V&A's blockbuster exhibition on Diaghilev, the great Russian ballet impresario.
This film was originally made in association with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929, on display from 25 September 2010 – 9 January 2011.
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Perm-36. Reflexion / Trailer
3 former prisoners speak of their time in Perm-36 gulag, now a museum. An event Pilorama reflects Russian society haunted by post-Soviet phantom pains. Red-brown activists denounce the existence of Perm-36, attracting support. Dark clouds gather…
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Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, narrated by Tilda Swinton (2013, 60 min.)
Narrated by Tilda Swinton, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music. The impresario Serge Diaghilev was the creator and driving force of the Ballets Russes. He persuaded, cajoled, and charmed the greatest talents of the early twentieth century to join his company. Artists (Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse), composers (Igor Stravinsky and Erik Satie), choreographers (Michel Fokine and George Balanchine), and dancers (Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova) all collaborated to realize Diaghilev’s dream of a seamless fusion of the arts. The spectacular productions of the Ballets Russes dazzled audiences and revolutionized modern dance. This documentary includes footage of revivals of Ballets Russes performances by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, and the New York City Ballet. Also featured are sets and costumes from Diaghilev’s innovative productions, as well as interviews with dancers, musicians, and scholars. This film was made possible by the HRH Foundation.
Sergei Diaghilev Google Doodle
The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in few countries for celebrating Sergei Diaghilev’s 145th Birthday
Sergei Diaghilev was a Russian art critic, visionary, patron, ballet organizer and founder of the Ballets Russes, a trailblazing dance company that united talents from the disciplines of art, fashion, dance, choreography, and music, and vaulted them to dizzying creative heights.
From 1909-1929, the Ballet Russes performed on stages around the globe, mesmerizing, even scandalizing, audiences with its unprecedented costumes, stage sets, compositions, and choreography.
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Google Doodle
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov
Léon Bakst
August Macke
National Library of Australia
Sergei Diaghilev Google Doodle | QPT
The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in few countries for celebrating Sergei Diaghilev’s 145th Birthday
Sergei Diaghilev was a Russian art critic, visionary, patron, ballet organizer and founder of the Ballets Russes, a trailblazing dance company that united talents from the disciplines of art, fashion, dance, choreography, and music, and vaulted them to dizzying creative heights.
From 1909-1929, the Ballet Russes performed on stages around the globe, mesmerizing, even scandalizing, audiences with its unprecedented costumes, stage sets, compositions, and choreography.
Read more details about Ballets Russes at
See the Sergei Diaghilev’s 145th Birthday Google Doodle at
And, read about Sergei Diaghilev at
Images Credit:
Google Doodle
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov
Léon Bakst
August Macke
National Library of Australia
Sergei Diaghilev's mind, 1913.
Le Théâtre des Champs Elysées, backstage, late in the evening of May 29, 1913.
Excerpt from COCO ET IGOR (2009), a film by Jan Kounen.
LOS BALLETS RUSOS DE DIAGHILEV 1909-1929 the Filmmaker.avi
International Festival of Arts Diaghilev. P.S. 2012
In 2012 the Festival was devoted to the great contemporary choreographer John Neumeier. In the program of the Festival famous Neumeier’s ballet The Lady of the Camellias for the first time was performed in Saint-Petersburg. Also in the frames of the Festival audience could enjoy the splendid Gala concert. One of the main events of the festival program was exhibition Vaslav Nijinsky and John Neumeier in The St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music.
Perm
Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov.
According to the 2010 Census, Perm's population is 991,162, down from 1,001,653 recorded in the 2002 Census and 1,090,944 recorded in 1989 Census. As of the 2010 Census, the city was the thirteenth most populous in Russia.
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International Festival of Arts Diaghilev. P.S. 2014
In 2014 as part of the UK-Russia Year of Culture, two British ballet companies appeared as special guests of the Festival with performances FAR (choreography by Wayne McGregor | Random Dance) and Sutra (choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui).
The ballet Sutra was premiėred in 2008 in London, and thereafter shown immediately around the world to an enthusiastic reception. The participation of 17 monks from Shaolin Temple brings Kung Fu techniques into the heart of the choreography, and combined with an extravagant set design by the outstanding modern sculptor Antony Gormley they make this ballet one of the most powerful and thought-provoking in the modern repertory.
Wayne McGregor's choreography establishes its own unique and independent dance system. It has been described as the higher mathematics of modern choreography, bringing to it the latest scientific advances in the realm of the human body's bio-rhythms.
A Conference - ANATOMY OF DANCE – with the participation of established choreographers, including Wayne McGregor, and a range of other researchers into the language of ballet aroused intense interest from an international audience.
The Festival gave a major focus to the Perm Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet at the Grand Hall of Petersburg Academic Philharmonic, with concert performances conducted by Teodor Currentzis, and with the premieres of the Ballet Russes’ Heritage: ballets “The Jester” (Prokofiev / Miroshnichenko) and “Les Noces” (Stravinsky / Kylián).
The 110th anniversary of the birth of George Balanchine was celebrated with a photo exhibition by that eminent chronicler of New York City Ballet - American photographer Paul Kolnik in the Vaganova Russian Ballet Academy and at the Mikhailovsky Theatre.
Ballets by Marta Graham presents DIAGHILEV. P. S. For the first time in Russia
Ballets by Marta Graham
24 November, St. Petersburg, Alexandrinsky Theatre
For the first time in Russia DIAGHILEV. P. S. presents an evening of one-act ballets by Martha Graham Dance Company:
Diversion of Angels
Lamentation. Variations
Echo
Chronicle
MARTHA GRAHAM (1894–1991) is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century alongside Picasso, Stravinsky, James Joyce, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1998 Time magazine named Martha Graham the Dancer of the Century, and People magazine named her among the female Icons of the Century. As a choreographer, she was as prolific as she was complex. She created 181 ballets and a dance technique that has been compared to ballet in its scope and magnitude. Many of the great modern and ballet choreographers have studied the Martha Graham Technique or have been members of her company.
MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY was founded in 1926 by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, and is acknowledged as “one of the great companies of the world” by Anna Kisselgoff, former chief dance critic of The New York Times.
Press about MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY:
“one of the seven wonders of the artistic universe,”
Alan M. Kriegsman — Washington Post
“They seem able to do anything, and to make it look easy as well as poetic.”
Martin Bernheimer — Los Angeles Times
“The Martha Graham Dance Company’s performance is unmissable.”
Ismene Brown — Daily Telegraph, London
Ilya Repin deel 3
Ilja Repin - Schilder van de Russische ziel
Ilja Repin (1844-1930), de 'Russische Rembrandt', is een van Ruslands beroemdste en meest geliefde schilders. Dit jaar was echter voor het eerst in het westen - in het Groninger Museum - een overzichtstentoonstelling te zien van deze vertegenwoordiger van het sociaal-realisme, die vooral wordt bejubeld omdat hij als geen ander de Russische ziel in zijn werk weet te vangen. Regisseur John Appel doorsnijdt beelden van de totstandkoming van de expositie met interviews die hij in Rusland maakte met bewonderaars. Behalve mensen uit de kunstwereld, spreekt hij een oma en de conciërge van een kerk, waar een door Repin geschilderd icoon van Jezus bezoekers koude rillingen bezorgt. Dit met prachtige muziek omlijste portret van een meesterschilder laat ook zien hoe de schilderkunst in Rusland onlosmakelijk deel uitmaakt van de cultuur van de gewone man, die Repin in zijn schilderijen eindelijk een gezicht gaf.
De legendarische Rus Sergej Diaghilev (1872-1929) -- oprichter van de vermaarde Ballets Russes in 1909 -- behoort tot de invloedrijkste artistieke pioniers van de twintigste eeuw. Zijn tomeloze energie en ongekende neus voor kwaliteit maakten Diaghilev dé drijvende kracht achter de grote artistieke vernieuwingsbewegingen in het Europa van voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Diaghilev was een homo universalis en een briljante organisator ineen. Hij was een artistieke visionair met een onbreekbare wilskracht, die het artistieke schokeffect tot zijn handelsmerk maakte. Hij oefende grote invloed uit op Picasso, Matisse, Cocteau, Derain, Stravinsky, Prokofjev, Debussy, Ravel, Nijinsky en Balanchine. Door zijn scandaleuze levenswijze en onstuimige karakter raakte hij steeds weer in opspraak, en vele malen leek zijn carrière tot een abrupt eind te komen.
Hij was een kosmopoliet en nationalist ineen. Onafgebroken reisde hij door Europa en Amerika, maar hij brandde van verlangen terug te keren naar Rusland. De dreigende opkomst van de Sovjetdictatuur maakte aan die droom een einde.
Voor deze biografie bracht Sjeng Scheijen twee jaar door in archieven in Sint-Petersburg, Perm, Moskou, Cambridge, New York, Washington, Parijs en Londen, en wist een onvoorstelbare rijkdom aan nooit eerder gepubliceerde brieven en documenten boven water te krijgen. Met dit, soms verbijsterende, nieuwe materiaal brengt Scheijen Diaghilevs 'leven voor de kunst' op meesterlijke wijze tot leven.
Sjeng Scheijen (1972) is slavist en specialist op het gebied van de Russische kunst van de negentiende en vroegtwintigste eeuw.
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Charmant, emotioneel, wispelturig, vastberaden, passioneel, hardwerkend, een dromer, doener, inspirator, visionair... al deze termen zijn toepasbaar op de legendarische Russische balletmeester Sergej Diaghilev (1872-1929), de oprichter van het Ballets Russes. De slavist Sjeng Scheijen (1972) verwerkte in deze biografie zijn vondsten uit archieven in Rusland, Amerika, Parijs en Londen. Eerder publiceerde hij ook al over Dhiaghilev*. Dit levert een prachtig boek op dat een boeiend inzicht geeft in het leven van de man die een stempel drukte op ontwikkelingen in kunst en cultuur in Rusland, West-Europa en Amerika. Nijinsky, Mata Hari, Stravinsky, Pavlova, Picasso, Prokofjev, Tolstoj ('Een heilige, hij is werkelijk een heilige! We waren zo aangedaan dat we bijna huilden', schrijft Dhiaghilev als student over zijn ontmoeting met de schrijver) en nog vele anderen passeren de revue. Scheijen heeft een talent voor schrijven, hij brengt een wervelende tijd tot leven in een aanstekelijk, vlot geschreven boek met veel sappige details. Naast een aantal zwart-witfoto's bevat het boek tientallen fraaie portretjes de de kunstvrienden van elkaar maakten. Met literatuur/noten/register. Voor geinteresseerden in cultuurgeschiedenis, Rusland, ballet, theater en beeldende kunst.
ANONYMOUS @PERMM in 8 minutes
Пермский музей современного искусства представляет выставку Безымянный, посвященную потере или скрытию лица в современном искусстве и культуре. Я предлагаю пролететь по выставке и оценить масштабы этого движения. //
Perm Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits Anonymous collection focusing on loss or disguise of face in modern art and culture. I invite you to fly through the exhibition and consider a scope of this movement.
f*ck...matisse (2018)
Stacy Collado's f*ck... matisse at Dixon Place in NYC on March 28, 2018.
Choreography/direction: Stacy Collado
Music: an original composition by Sam Tobias
Costumes/styling: Alexandra Dorschner
Dancers: Marin Day, Sam Lore, Sofia Franklin, Mac Twining, Andrew Pester, Genna Mattana, Charles Miliken, Micayla Wynn
Inspired by artist Joseph Marioni’s artistic practice and seemingly monochromatic canvases, as well as Henri Matisse’s expressive language of color, “f*ck… Matisse” enters a dimension of shifting color sensations and unhurried contemplation, wondering if the body can act not as a fixed entity but as something else.
International Festival of Arts Diaghilev. P.S. 2012
In 2012 the Festival was devoted to the great contemporary choreographer John Neumeier. In the program of the Festival famous Neumeier’s ballet The Lady of the Camellias for the first time was performed in Saint-Petersburg. Also in the frames of the Festival audience could enjoy the splendid Gala concert. One of the main events of the festival program was exhibition Vaslav Nijinsky and John Neumeier in The St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music.
International Festival of Arts Diaghilev. P.S. 2013
The ballet programme of the IV International Festival of Arts Diaghilev P.S.” features the creative work of several renowned European choreographers. They are, in fact, representatives of a single generation. Oeuvres by Angelin Preljocaj and Nacho Duato are included in the repertoires of some St. Petersburg theatres while ballets by Jiří Kylián, which number more than 90, have not yet been staged in St. Petersburg.
Perm's modern artists turn city into alternative culture capital
Summery：The city of Perm is drawing crowds of artists, thanks a lot to the influence of one man - impresario Marat Guleman.
Location: Perm, Perm region, Russia
Date Shot: November 18, 2010
Duration: 2:45
Language:English
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