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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
More dance tales for the balletomanes out there...In London I went to see the Diaghilev exhibit at the V&A.
Room after room of sumptuous costumes, stage sets, posters, playbills, videos, background music and backstage tales from the golden age of Les Ballet Russes (1909-1929)...
It's easy to imagine yourself twirling like a czar, sporting a mink hat
Illustrations and costume design drawings from Russian Leon Bakst...
Reflect the lush aspects of these ballets...
Loaded with Russian embroidary...
You can watch old film of Nijinsky's revolutionary Fire Dance.
With the accompanying original costumes and drawings. Plus backstage details of the love affair between Nijinsky and Sergei Diaghilev. Until Les Ballets Russes went off to Argentina, where Nijinsky eloped with a ballerina, causing immediate dismissal from the company. Diaghilev went off on a Bachanalian rage in Sicly...
Stage backdrops and model theaters leave you ready to forage for treasures in the V&A giftshop...
Deck yourself out head to toe...
In Russian garb...
Including Diaghilev's famous black top hat...
While munching faux 'caviar' chocolate beans...
Balletomanes will find plenty of books to buy on their favorite subject...
Why oh why didn't I buy this piano bracelet for all of 5 pounds?
Surprisingly there was no Russian fare to eat in the V&A's cafe, but the fare is excellent English traditional food
With luscious jams up the whazoo at no extra cost!
Two little British Red Riding Hoods being taken to the exhibit...
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