Category Archives: costumes

diaghilev and the golden age of the ballets russes, 1909-1929 0

Victoria & Albert Museum’s major autumn exhibition explores the world of the influential artistic director Serge Diaghilev and the most exciting dance company of the 20th century, the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev imaginatively combined dance, music and art to create ‘total theatre’. A consummate collaborator, he worked with Stravinsky, Chanel, Picasso, Matisse and Nijinsky. Diaghilev’s dramatic [...]

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enchanted palace 1

Kensington Palace is being transformed. As the walls of the palace are being shaken by a £12 million renovation project the rubble and the dust is unleashing powerful and secret stories about the lives of Kensington’s princesses. At the heart of the Enchanted Palace journey is a quest for the seven princesses who once lived [...]

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Hansel and Gretel at Metropolitan Opera New York 1

Images: Set and costume design by John Macfarlane for Hansel and Gretel, Metropolitan Opera, New York, Richard Jones production. This opera was the inspiration source for Annie Leibovitz’s editorial Little Girl & Boy Lost in December 2009 issue of American Vogue shown in the post below. Haunting, charming, and a little wicked, the Met’s production [...]

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dances of vice 0

This November, prepare to set sail (literally and figuratively) for the most extravagant and fanciful gathering of castaways, sailors, glittering mermaids, sea sirens, pirates, romantic sea captains and scalawags ever known to New York! Dances of Vice Festival returns on November 20 – 22 2009 in a three-day nautical themed flight of fancy that will [...]

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