Ballets Russes

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Vaslav Nijinsky in costume for the “Dansesiamoise,“ a solo in Mikhail Fokine’s ballet Le

Alexandra Danilova inAurora’s WeddingCostume by Alexandre Benois (Russian; 1870–1960)ca.1924–2

Costumes for the nymphs in L'Après-midi d'un Faune, designed by Léon BakstRussian, c. 1912silk chiff

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer and choreographer for the Ballets Russes. (18

finethankyouandyou:Olga Spessivtseva in “Le Spectre de la Rose” in Paris, 1932

Sonia Delaunay costume design for title role from Cleopatra for the 1918 Ballets Russes production

Costume designs for Ballets Russes ballet “Obsessions” by Kathleen and Florence Martin,

barcarole:Some of Léon Bakst’s set designs for the Ballets Russes: Boris Godunov (1908) Scheherezade

Poster for the “Ballets Russes” by Willy Pogany

Prince Igor,Programme officiel des Ballets Russes, Théâtre du Châtelet, Juin 1911.Publicity.

Tamara Karsavina of the Ballet Russes as the Firebird by Laura Knight, unknown  date

Coco Chanel with Serge Lifar, the principal dancer of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes during its final ye

White, Ethelbert. Scene drawings for Cleopatra and Narcisse. MS Thr 414.2Houghton Library, Harvard U

White, Ethelbert. Scene drawings for Good-humoured ladies and Carnaval. MS Thr 414.2Houghton Library

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Costume designs by Leon Bakst for Ballets Russes' Scheherazade, 1910

Vaslav Nijinsky as the Favorite Slave in “Schéhérazade”1910Gelatin silver printPhotograp

Léon Bakst (1866-1924), ‘Faun’, “L'après-midi d'un Faune” (Afternoon for a F

Eileen Mayo (English; 1906–1994)Apollo MusagetesDrawing of Serge Lifar in George Balanchine’s

Les Biches (Lydia Sokolova), 1926Joan Craven (British; active 1920s–1950s)Bibliothèque nationale de

Ballets russes programs, 1907-1929. Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Saison Russe 1913. MS Thr 965 (7)Har

Michel Fokine, in Carnaval, [n.d.]MS Thr 414.2 (43)Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University

pressworksonpaperblog:from “the ballets russes to vogue: the art of georges lepape”, 1984.

soleil-de-matin:Russian ballerina Vera Fokina in “Scheherazade”, Paris, 1911

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