Ballet Russe
Ballet Russe is a French word which means Russian Ballets. It was a great art performance company which performed under the dictatorship of Diaghilev Sergei of Russia in between the years nineteen hundred & nine and nineteen twenty nine. These performances happened in places such as Magador Theater and the Chatelet Theater in France since France capital, Paris had many Russian population who were living their in exile. This group also held there performance in several other countries such as U.S.A, Spain, and England. Many of the company’s dancers were from ST. Petersburg’s imperial Ballet (Ballet, Russes Documentary). The young dancers were trained in Paris among the Russian exile community. The dances performed featured prominent choreographers such as Fokine Michel, Petipa Marius, as well as new performances from Nijinnska Bronislava, Balanchine George, Massine Leonide and Nijinsky Vaslav (Ballet, Russes Documentary).
The company always tried to diversify its works and tried out daring dancing styles and it certainly come up with works which are still outstanding up-to-date. Their works was mainly evolved around Constructivism, futurism, symbolism, cubism and primitivism. The group moved around in nurturing the constructivism and futurism movement through its performances which were based on the ideologies and artistic impressions of the Constructivism and futurism era (Ballet, Russes Documentary). It is however interesting to note that Ballets Russes Company never staged a performance in Russia which was the native country of the dancers, the company which was based in France traveled around America and Europe and so become well renowned world wide. The design of the company’s performance was truly a big inspiration for avant-garde artists who were really interested to be associated with the Ballets Russes project it also inspired various painters and artists to portray the artistic portraits of the Ballets Russes works (Ballet, Russes Documentary).
During the period world war 1was being fought Serge Diaghilev conformed his Ballet artists into modern artists. He was particularly very interested in reaching out to new frontiers of theatre, by so he had to bring in new ideas from the major art movements of that particular time. Larionov, Michel for instance exploited the geometric and fractured artistic forms of Futurism to come up with sculptural and fantastic costumes for “The Buffoon” which was performed in the year 1921 (From Russia with love).
Matisse, Henri who was prominent for his outstanding colored paintings and flamboyant line designed The Song of the Nightingale for Diaghilev in 1920 (From Russia with love). His overall scheme used black, yellow and white colors to come up with restrained designs which created dramatic emphasis. The costumes were produced in large numbers and became part of the fluctuating stylish color and pattern.
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