Smart's work recognizes the East as an influence on avant - garde movements like The Ballets
Russes dance company's contemporary thought and politics and how this intersected and manifested in their choreographies, costume and theatre designs.
Not exact matches
The
dance sequences were choreographed by former Ballets
Russes principal David Lichine, but apart from the majesties of Cyd Charisse, they're mainly inadequate.
2 Diaghilev and the Ballets
Russes, 1909 - 1929: When Art
Danced with Music, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Narrated by Tilda Swinton, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Ballets
Russes, 1909 — 1929: When Art
Danced with Music.
Based on documentation of performances by for instance the Ballet
Russes in the 1920s, the Judson
Dance Theatre in the 1960s or contemporary choreographers, Silke Otto - Knapp has also painted formations and tableaus formed by the bodies of the choreographed dancers.