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Serge Diaghilev and His World: A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909–1929
Exhibition Items
- Souvenir program for 1908 performances of Boris Godunov at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)
Digital ID # br0002 - Serge Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Igor Stravinsky, ca. 1911. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00)
Digital ID # br0003 - Serge Diaghilev (left) and Léonide Massine (right), no date. Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)
Digital ID # br0005 - Jean Cocteau (left) and Serge Diaghilev on opening night of Le Train Bleu, June 20, 1924. Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00)
Digital ID # br0006 - Boris Kochno (top left) and Serge Diaghilev; Kochno, Paulo Picasso, and Diaghilev (top right); Olga Khokhlova and Diaghilev (bottom left); Kochno, Diaghilev, and Paulo Picasso (bottom right). Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)
Digital ID # br0007 - Francis Poulenc, ca. 1923. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)
Digital ID # br0009 - Léon Bakst (left) and Serge Diaghilev (center) with unidentified others, ca.1910. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (008.00.00)
Digital ID # br0008 - Cast of “Polovtsian Dances” in act 2 from the opera Prince Igor, with choreography by Michel Fokine, 1923. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)
Digital ID # br0010 - Bronislava Nijinska and V. Karnetzky in the “Polovtsian Dances” from Prince Igor, ca. 1912. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)
Digital ID # br0011 - Adolph Bolm as Amoun in Cléopâtre, ca. 1910. Adolph Bolm Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)
Digital ID # br0012 - Adolph Bolm and Tamara Karsavina in Schéhérazade, no date. Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00)
Digital ID # br0013 - Michel Fokine and Tamara Karsavina in The Firebird, ca. 1910. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00)
Digital ID # br0014
Souvenir program from the premiere of The Firebird, 1910. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)
Digital ID # br0015 - Vaslav Nijinsky as the Rose in Le Spectre de la Rose, 1911. Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00)
Digital ID # br0016 - Petrouchka with Bronislava Nijinska (left) as the Street Dancer, K. Kobelev as the Organ Grinder (center), and Ludmilla Schollar (right) as a Gypsy, ca, 1911. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)
Digital ID # br0017 - Alexandra Danilova and Léonide Massine as Can-Can Dancers in La Boutique Fantasque, 1919. Alexandra Danilova Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00)
Digital ID # br0019 - Rehearsal photograph of Pulcinella from an album compiled by Serge Grigoriev, 1920. Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (020.01.00)
Digital ID # br0020 - Tamara Geva (far left); Lubov Tchernicheva (kneeling center); Alexandra Danilova (third from right); Felia Doubrovska (second from right), with Tatiana Chamié and Ninette de Valois in Zéphire et Flora, 1925. Alexandra Danilova Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00)
Digital ID # br0021 - Alexandra Danilova as the Young Girl and Leon Woizikovski as the First Sailor in Les Matelots, ca. 1926. Alexandra Danilova Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00)
Digital ID # br0022 - Rehearsal photograph of George Balanchine's Le Chant du Rossignol, from an album compiled by Serge Grigoriev, 1925. Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (020.02.00)
Digital ID # br0023 - Alexandra Danilova and Serge Lifar in George Balanchine’s The Triumph of Neptune, 1926. Alexandra Danilova Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (024.00.00)
Digital ID # br0024 - Serge Diaghilev’s notebook, 1926–1929. Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (025.00.00)
Digital ID # br0025 - Alexandra Danilova and Serge Lifar in Apollon Musagète, ca.1928. Alexandra Danilova Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (026.00.00)
Digital ID # br0026 - The Nijinsky children: Vaslav, Bronislava, and Stanislav, ca.1897. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (027.00.00)
Digital ID # br0027 - Vaslav Nijinsky in dance practice clothes, 1908. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00)
Digital ID # br0028 - Bronislava Nijinska at her graduation from the Imperial Theater School, 1908. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00)
Digital ID # br0029 - Vaslav Nijinsky in Narcisse, 1911. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (030.00.00)
Digital ID # br0030 - Vaslav Nijinsky as Petrouchka, 1911. Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (031.00.00)
Digital ID # br0031 - Bronislava Nijinska, Olga Khohlova, and Lubov Tchernicheva in L’Après-midi d’un Faune, 1912. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (032.00.00)
Digital ID # br0032 - Vaslav Nijinsky’s notation for a section of L’Après-midi d’un Faune, 1912. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (033.00.00)
Digital ID # br0033 - Mikhail Larinov. Bronia dans le Faune, 1912. Pencil. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)
Digital ID # br0034 - Piano score for Le Sacre du Printemps, notated by Marie Rambert, 1913. Spivacke Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. (035.00.00)
Digital ID # br0035, br0035_01 - George Barbier. Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein in Schéhérazade from Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky. Trans. C.W. Beaumont. London: C.W. Beaumont, 1913. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (036.00.00)
Digital ID # br0036, br0036_01 - Vaslav Nijinsky and Romola de Pulszky on their wedding day, Buenos Aires, September 10, 1913. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (037.00.00)
Digital ID # br0037 - Receipt for Vaslav Nijinsky’s performances in Rio de Janeiro, August 18, 1917. Music Division, Library of Congress (038.00.00)
Digital ID # br0038 - Studio of Léon Bakst. Costume design for a courtier in The Sleeping Princess, 1921. Watercolor. Music Division, Library of Congress (039.00.00)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19410
Bronislava Nijinska’s choreographic notes for The Sleeping Princess, 1921. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (040.00.00)
Digital ID# br0040
Bronislava Nijinska’s choreographic notes for The Sleeping Princess, 1921. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (040.00.00)
Digital ID# br0041 - Natalia Goncharova. Costume design for the Siamese Butterfly in Aurora’s Wedding, 1922. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (041.00.00)
Digital ID # br0041
“The Three Ivans” in Aurora’s Wedding, 1922. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (043.00.00)
Digital ID # br0043 - Rehearsal of Les Noces on the roof of the Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, 1923. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (045.00.00)
Digital ID # br0045
Les Noces, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, 1926. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (046.00.00)
Digital ID # br0046 - Dance Theatre of Harlem in a reconstruction of Les Noces, 1989. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (048.00.00)
Digital ID # br0048 - Letter from Igor Stravinsky to Bronislava Nijinska, March 27, 1923. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (044.00.00)
Digital ID # br0044p1, br0044p2 - Unidentified dancers in Les Fâcheux, 1924. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (050.00.00)
Digital ID # br0050
Juan Gris. Costume design for a shepherdess for Les Tentations de la Bergère, ou L’Amour Vainqueur, ca. 1923. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (051.00.00)
Digital ID # br0051 - Natalia Goncharova. Costume design for La Nuit sur le Mont Chauve, ca. 1923. Watercolor. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (052.00.00)
Digital ID # br0052
Unidentified dancers in La Nuit sur le Mont Chauve, 1924. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (053.00.00)
Digital ID # br0053 - Vera Nemchinova as the Blue Girl in Les Biches, ca. 1924. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (054.00.00)
Digital ID # br0054
Marie Laurencin. Curtain design for Les Biches, ca. 1923. Watercolor. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (055.00.00)
Digital ID # br0055 - Original cast of Le Train Bleu, 1924. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00)
Digital ID # br0057
Leon Woizikowski, Lydia Sokolova, Bronislava Nijinska, and Anton Dolin in Le Train Bleu, 1924. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (059.00.00)
Digital ID # br0059 - Poster for a June 1922 performance at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (061.00.00)
Digital ID # br0061
Ballets Russes on tour in Cologne, Germany, 1924. Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (064.00.00)
Digital ID # br0064
Ballets Russes dancer and choreographer Adolph Bolm’s passport, 1913–1921. Adolph Bolm Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (062.00.00)
Digital ID # br0062
Ballets Russes on tour, 1929. From left to right: conductor Roger Désormière; Serge Diaghilev; dancer Serge Lifar; Diaghilev’s secretary and librettist Boris Kochno; and dancers Alexandra Danilova, Lubov Tchernicheva, and Felia Doubrovska. Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (068.00.00)
Digital ID # br0068 - Members of the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, August 28, 1913. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (066.00.00)
Digital ID # br0066 - Ballets Russes on tour in Montreux, Switzerland, 1929. Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (067.00.00)
Digital ID # br0067
