Picasso and dance : with the Paris Opera Ballet in Le train bleu and Le tricorne / an NVC Arts, LaSept/Arte, Cameras Continentales, NHK, Opéra national de Paris co-production ; director for television and videogram, Yvon Gerault.
Publisher:
Kultur,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Le train bleu: Elisabeth Maurin, Nicholas Le Riche, Clotilde Vayer, Laurent Queval. Le tricorne: Kader Belarbi, Françoise Legrée. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1994.
Contents:
The three cornered hat / music, Manuel de Falla ; libretto, Gregorio Martinez Sierra after the story by Pedro Antonio Alarcon ; choreography, Léonide Massine (1919) ; restaged by Lorca Massine ; stage curtain, sets and costumes, Pablo Picasso. Le train bleu = =The blue train / scenario, Jean Cocteau ; music, Darious Milhaud ; original choreography, Bronislava Nijinska (1924) ; director, Aleth Francillon ; sets, Henri Laurens ; costumes, Gabrielle Chanel -- Le tricorne = The three cornered hat / music, Manuel de Falla ; libretto, Gregorio Martinez Sierra after the story by Pedro Antonio Alarcon ; choreography, Léonide Massine (1919) ; restaged by Lorca Massine ; stage curtain, sets and costumes, Pablo Picasso.
Summary:
Two Paris Ballet performances recreating ballets from the early 20th century for which Pablo Picasso contributed stage curtain designs for both and costume and set designs for Le tricorne. Also included is a documentary tracing the story of Picasso's collaboration with Diaghilev, Cocteau, Massine and others, as well as his involvement with designs for ballet inspired by his Russian wife, dancer Olga Koklova.
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