The Moscow Tretyakov Art Gallery joined the worldwide celebration of the centenary of Dyagilev’s “Russian Ballets”. The “Vision of Dance” exhibition showing 500 rarities from private collections and world museums has opened in the Tretyakov Gallery.
“Amaze me” was Sergey Dyagilev’s creative motto and he himself amazed the audiences combining new music, avant-garde scenery, unusual choreography and original staging in his performances. His ballets “The Holy Spring”, “Punch”, “Golden Cockerel” and “Afternoon of a Faun” became the legends of dance. “Russian Ballets” reflected the development of the XXth century art and its main feature – synthetism.
No exhibition can present all the talents of Dyagilev’s genius but the Tretyakov gallery tried to make its exposition interesting.
The vivid exposition comprises scenery, costumes, paintings and sketches, photos and video installations based on old documentaries showing the “live” plasticity of the dancers. For the first time the exposition collected 50 genuine costumes for the Dyagilev’s cast soloists, including Fokine, Pavlova, Nizhinsky, Karsavina and Geltser. Many design masterpieces survived miraculously, like the hand-painted costumes by Henri Matisse for “ The Nightingale” ballet or constructivism-designed costumes for “The Jester” ballet by Mikhail Larionov.
Voice of Russia