#fokine

[detournementsmineurs]

"Dessin" de Cadette Simon-Ducuing d'après le ballet "Le Carnaval" de Michel Fokine (1922) à l'exposition “Les Ateliers d'Art des Grands Magasins, Vitrines de l’Art Déco” de la Bibliothèque Forney, Paris, novembre 2025.

[pantalon-et-colombine]

Illustration by Georges Barbier

[kecobe]

Michel Fokine as Perseus in Medusa, 1918 Henry B. Goodwin (Swedish; 1878–1931) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

[tmwspam]

wes and isky falling in love in bars 

[besoindedanser]

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Seriously fangirling over one of the best roses ever... @manuel.legris and Claude de Vulpian in Michel Fokine's "Le spectre de la rose" #manuellegris #claudedevulpian #spectredelarose #fokine #ballet #aaaargh #fangirling #icouldwatchthisallday

[earlymoderndance]

Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960).  Italian postcard (ca. 1922)

An Italian postcard from ca. 1922, which features a portrait from the 1921 silent film la Nave.

Born into a wealthy, Russian industrialist family, Ida would later use that wealth to present – and star in - some fantastically elaborate productions.  

Although she began her ballet studies late in life, she was given lessons by Fokine, and danced in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.  

She later formed her own dance company, and went on to sponsor a lavish production of Le martyre de Saint Sebastien, which featured text by d’Annuncio and a score by Debussy.

She also commissioned Ravel’s Bolero in 1928, and appeared in several silent movies early in the 1920s.

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Nijinsky in Le Dieu Bleu, ballet, choreographer, Fokine, 1912.

[mote-historie]

George Barbier, Vaslav Nijinsky as the Golden Slave and Ida Rubinstein in Scheherazade, Paris, 1910.

Schéhérazade is a ballet in one act with choreography by Michael Fokine, libretto by Benois, music by Rimsky-Korsakov and design by Leon Bakst. Premiered 4 June 1910 by Sergei Diaghilev Ballets Russes at the Paris Opera.