The play opens with a projected image of Ida Rubinstein’s grave, which morphs into mysterious and exotic visions of Naomi Sorkin, who slowly unwinds and removes one veil after another. She is at once Cléopâtre, Salomé and Rubinstein, gradually revealing her body, as she prepares to disclose layer upon layer of her past. Sorkin’s compelling performance exudes magnetic power, as she plays an ageing femme fatale telling her life story to journalist Edward Clement (played by Max Wilson).
(more…)October 13, 2021
Ida Rubinstein: The Final Act. Playground Theatre, London, matinée performance 9th October 2021 – Maggie Watson reviews
Posted by susiecrow under reviews | Tags: ballet history, Ballets Russes, Christian Holder, Darren Berry, Edward Clement, Gabriele d’Annunzio, Ida Rubinstein, Ida Rubinstein The Final Act, Kathryn Worth, Maggie Watson, Marco Gambino, Max Wilson, Naomi Sorkin, play, Playground Theatre, Romaine Brooks, Serge Diaghilev |Leave a Comment
October 11, 2016
DANSOX: ‘Nijinska’ Lecture by Professor Lynn Garafola, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building 10th November 2016
Posted by susiecrow under Dance and Academia, What's happening | Tags: Ballets Russes, Bronislawa Nijinska, DANSOX, Diaghilev, guest lecture, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Le Train Bleu, Les Biches, Les Noces, Professor Lynn Garafola, Vaslav Nijinsky |Leave a Comment
DANSOX presents a guest lecture by distinguished Professor Lynn Garafola (Columbia University) who will discuss her work on Bronislawa Nijinska, one of the twentieth century’s greatest modernist choreographers. Professor Garafola will explore Nijinska’s position as Nijinsky’s sister and her career in a male-dominated group of directors and choreographers associated with the Ballets Russes. She will also talk about the creation of iconic works of the Twenties by Nijinska including Les Noces, Les Biches, and Le Train Bleu, as well as less well-known pieces, and describe Nijinska’s ventures inside and outside the Diaghilev circle.
Date: Thursday 10th November, 17.30-19.30
Venue: Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Cowley Place, Oxford OX4
The event is free and open to all and will be followed by a drinks reception in the JdP Foyer.
You can register to attend here
To find out more about DANSOX and its programme of events:
http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/dansox
January 12, 2013
The Rite of Spring – A Centenary Celebration of the Music and the Ballet – 20th February 2013
Posted by susiecrow under Dance and Academia, What's happening | Tags: Ballets Russes, Dame Monica Mason, Daniel Tong and Joseph Tong, Dr Jonathan Williams, Dr Susan Jones, Igor Stravinsky, Jacqueline du Pré Building, Jane Pritchard, St Hilda's College Oxford, The Rite of Spring |[2] Comments
In a year of significant musical anniversaries, here is one of particular dance interest – the centenary of the shocking premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris. Dr Susan Jones sends information of a special event celebrating this groundbreaking work at St Hilda’s College with guest speakers Dame Monica Mason and Jane Pritchard and a concert performance of the score in Stravinsky’s version for two pianos… (more…)