Fuck Yeah Ballets Russes!
Vaslav Nijinsky and the performers and personalities of the original Ballets Russes.
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Anonymous: Just saw this exhibit yesterday in DC: National Gallery of Art - Exhibitions - 2013 - Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929: When Art Danced with Music. It was magical!

Wonderful! I saw posters for this at the train station and it made my day; has anyone else had the good fortune of seeing this or hearing any more about it?

raquelwasalittlelamb: Hello! I'm writing a paper on the influence and role of the Ballets Russes on Multimedia and Arts, I was wondering if you knew of any papers or works that you could indicate me and that are available online? Your blog is an excellent resource and a joy, by the way. Thank you so much either way.

Hi! Sorry for the delay in replying, I hope this can still help with your project. For online resources, I’m afraid I can’t refer you to any academic papers, but I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the V&A’s resources related to their BR exhibitions. There was a really excellent series of blog entries by a curator there that I enjoyed, but I’m not sure how useful that would be on an essay-writing basis. MyBalletsRusses is a fansite run by a collector that might point you in the way of some interesting stuff, though. For images and factoids I’ve thoroughly plundered the National Gallery of Australia.

If you have JSTOR access, there looks to be an abundance of works there — I’m in a bit of a hurry to answer this before it becomes too out of date to be helpful, so I can’t point you to a specific few, but for papers and scholarly works that might do the trick. Good luck on your paper, and have fun writing!

gorimbaud:

“…but I feel that God will help all who seek. I am a seeker, for I feel God. God is seeking me, and therefore we are finding each other.

God Nijinsky
St. Moritz Dorf
Villa Guardamunt.
27 February 1919. ”

the last page of the first book of nijinsky’s diaries, signed “god nijinsky”.

 gorimbaud: “…but I feel that God will help all who seek. I am a seeker, for I feel God. God is seeking me, and therefore we are finding each other. God Nijinsky St. Moritz Dorf Villa Guardamunt. 27 February 1919. ” the last page of the first book of nijinsky’s diaries, signed “god nijinsky”.

moika-palace:

Vasla Nijinsky in costume designed by Léon Bakst for the Ballets Russes production of Le Spectre de la Rose, ca. 1911. (via Wardsworth Atheneum and Library of Congress.)

ivebeentoamarvellousparty:

Ida Rubinstein dancing as Saint Sebastian, or posing in promotional photos for that role.

Ida was perhaps not one of the virtuosa ballerinas of her time (1920s), but she was known for her acting skills on stage.

 ivebeentoamarvellousparty: Ida Rubinstein dancing as Saint Sebastian, or posing in promotional photos for that role. Ida was perhaps not one of the virtuosa ballerinas of her time (1920s), but she was known for her acting skills on stage.