It is a dream of fusion born in Imperial Russia, with Petipa and Tchaikovsky.
A kind of total art that combines a choreographer and a composer.
Serge de Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, adds painters.
And invites Stravinsky to join them.
From
Pulcinella
to
Concertante Dances
, in his career he composed 14 ballets.
Diaghilev spotted him in a concert.
He commissioned him to orchestrate the
Sylphides,
then a first creation:
L'Oiseau de feu
, before
Petrouchka
.
Fokine signs the choreography.
He deconstructs the lines of classical ballet and draws inspiration from Eternal Russia.
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Karsavina, the firebird of Russian ballets
Stravinsky's music follows the same program.
With a dash of modernity of absolute power.
These two ingredients define the editorial bias of
Le Monde de l'art
that Serge de Diaghilev defends.
Stravinsky measures 1.57 m, he is very orthodox, very prudish, very greedy, very obsessed with money.
He was 25 in 1907 when Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes.
He's a little uncomfortable
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