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Dancing With Picasso |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Bruce Merrill |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,120 Words, 12,581 Characters |
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The evening "Picasso et la Danse" that premiered at the Paris Opera Garnier on March 11 was a sumptuous reconstruction of three works, each using a different drop curtain by Pablo Picasso. The program was one of the season's most interesting artistically and historically.
The ballets presented were Bronislawa Nijinska's Le Train Bleu, premiered in 1924 at Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysees; Ronald Petit's Le Rendez-Vous, which debuted in 1946 at Paris' Theatre Sarah Bernhardt (Theatre de la Ville); and Leonide Massine's Le Tricorne, first presented in 1919 at London's Alhambra Theatre and the same year at Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysees.
Le Train Bleu was reconstructed by Frank Ries, professor of dance history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He spent over seve...
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...ensional structure, resembling sculptures (similar to Picasso's costumes in Parade), and the décor--consisting of series of painted backdrops showing the Mill, Village, and Bridge--was done in pale tones, seeming almost faded by the sun. All of this, together with the use of exaggerated make-up and the complicated geometrics of the choreography, gives a vision of a Cubist "other world" Spain.
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