yk

There is a week-long Ballets Russes 2009 festival planned in Boston, celebrating the centenary of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. There will be concerts, dances, exhibitions, lectures, fashion shows, and film screenings during mid May.
http://www.ballets-russes.com/calendar.html

And ballets by the Boston Ballet:
http://www.bostonballet.org/season/p...sRusses09.html

Ballets Russes Costume exhibition is on view at Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford from now thru July:
http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org

yk

No Ballet fans here?

yk

Apart from the May celebration, there will be a Ballets Russes Symposium and Art exhibition organized by Harvard in mid-April:
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/hou...symposium.html

The exhibition is held at the Pusey Library at Harvard, which includes more than 200 original documents and art works in the Harvard Theatre Collection.

Dayenu

In San Francisco and Berkeley the movie "Ballerina: russian ballet dancer documentary" starts on Friday. Is it strange, it's a french movie? I'm going anyway

Anybody wants to join me at the Opera Plaza movies?

yk

ttt

yk

I know we're in June already, but I finally got around to see the Diaghilev exhibition at the Pusey Library at Harvard University today.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibiti...hilevs_ballets

It was much better than what I had expected. Lots of original drawings for costume and set designs, photographs, ballet programmes, orchestra scores. A few of the ballets had designs by Miro, Matisse, as well as Picasso. Well worth a visit if you're in town. The exhibit ends August 28, 2009.

Admission is free, but the library is only open M-F 9-5.

yk

In case anyone is interested, last chance to see the Ballets Russes exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. The show closes July 12.
http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/vie...57&type=Future

I went today, and I really enjoyed it. Lots of drawings of original set and costume designs, but the highlight of the show is the display of original costumes - by Leon Bakst, Juan Gris, Matisse, and Giorgio de Chirico.

Here are a few photos I took

Le Spectre de la Rose costume
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...9/IMG_4076.jpg

Costume designed by Juan Gris
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...9/IMG_4080.jpg

Costume designed by Giorgio de Chirico
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...9/IMG_4086.jpg

Jaya

Hi yk, The Harvard link is great. Somehow I missed this thread back in May.

Thanks again for info I would not otherwise know about!