Tag: ballets russes

S. Georges :: Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, ca.1927. “La Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat) is a ten-minute piece with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner.  It was created in 1926-1927 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and it starred Serge Lifar as the Young Man and Alicia Nikitina and Olga Spessivtzeva in the title role.  The music was written by Henri Sauguet and choreographed by George Balanchine. / source: Flickr 

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Sasha (Alexander Stewart) ::

Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, 1928. “La
Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat) is a ten-minute piece
with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine
Pevsner.  It was created in 1926-27 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
and it starred Serge Lifar as the Young Man and Alicia Nikitina and
Olga Spessivtzeva in the title role.  The music was written by Henri
Sauguet and choreographed by George Balanchine. / source: Flickr

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Underwood & Underwood :: Russian ballet dancer Alice Nikitina as
La Chatte, 1928 in “La
Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat), a ten-minute piece
with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine
Pevsner. It was created in 1926-27 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
and it starred Serge Lifar as the Young Man and Alicia Nikitina and
Olga Spessivtzeva in the title role. The music was written by Henri
Sauguet and choreographed by George Balanchine.

/ Photo courtesy: Getty Images

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Nijinska · Goncharova · 1924

Bronislava Nijinska, Natalia Goncharova and unidentified dancers in ‘Night on the Bare Mountain’, 1924. Claude Harris blindstamp on lower left
 Bronislava Nijinska Collection and Ballets Russes De Serge Diaghilev (Library of Congress)

Photograph of Michel Fokine as Prince Ivan and Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird in

‘L’Oiseau de Feu’, 1910. Music by Igor Stravinsky; libretto by Michel Fokine; sets by  Aleksandr
Golovin, with additional costumes by Léon Bakst; premiere on 25 June  
1910, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris.

/ src: L. of Congress:
Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev

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