S. Hurok Presents; A Memoir of the Dance WorldHurok, Sol
History
S. Hurok Presents; A Memoir of the Dance World
Hurok, Sol
Ballet -- History
Massine’s contract with de Basil expired while the company was playing
in San Francisco, and the two parted company, with Massine, Danilova,
and others leaving for Monte Carlo.
That repertoire consisted of five Fokine-Diaghileff revivals:
_Carnaval_, _Le Spectre de la Rose_, _Les Sylphides_, _Prince Igor_, and
_Schéhérazade_.
[Illustration: _Valente_
Anton Dolin in _Fair at Sorotchinsk_]
[Illustration:
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo: Alexandra Danilova as the Glove Seller
and Leonide Massine as the Peruvian in _Gaîté Parisienne_
_Valente_]
[Illustration:
_Maurice Seymour_
Tamara Toumanova]
[Illustration:
_Maurice Seymour_
Alicia Markova]
[Illustration:
_Valente_
Scene from Antony Tudor’s _Romeo and Juliet_: Hugh Laing, Antony
Tudor, Dmitri Romanoff, Lucia Chase, Alicia Markova
]
[Illustration:
Ballet Theatre: Jerome Robbins and Janet Reed in _Fancy Free_
_Valente_]
[Illustration:
_Gordon Anthony_
Ninette de Valois]
[Illustration: _Angus McBean_
David Webster]
[Illustration: Constant Lambert
_Baron_]
[Illustration:
_Magnum_
S. Hurok, Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann]
[Illustration: Irina Baronova and Children
_Star Photo_
]
[Illustration: _Felix Fonteyn_
Sadler’s Wells Ballet: Following the premiere of
_Sylvia_--Frederick Ashton, Margot Fonteyn, S. Hurok
]
[Illustration: S. Hurok and Margot Fonteyn
_Felix Fonteyn_]
There was a production of Delibes’s _Coppélia_, staged by Nicholas
Zvereff; the _Swan Lake_ second act; a version of _The Nutcracker_, by
Boris Romanoff; and _Aubade_, to the music of Francis Poulenc, staged by
George Balanchine.
Importantly, there were several new Fokine creations: _L’Epreuve
d’Amour_, a charming “_chinoiserie_,” to the music of Mozart; _Don
Juan_, a balletic retelling of the romantic tale to a discovered score
by Gluck; _Les Eléments_, to the music of Bach; _Jota Argonesa_, a work
first done by Fokine in Petrograd, in 1916; _Igroushki_, originally
staged by Fokine for the Ziegfeld Roof in New York, in 1921; _Les
Elfes_, the Mendelssohn work originally done in New York, in 1924. The
two other Fokine works were yet another version of _The Nutcracker_, and
de Falla’s _Love, the Sorcerer_, both of which were later re-done by
Boris Romanoff.
Painters and designers included André Derain, Mariano Andreu, Nathalie
Gontcharova, Dmitri Bouchene, Mstislav Doboujinsky, and Cassandre.
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