Our major autumn exhibition explores the world of the influential artistic director Serge Diaghilev and the most exciting dance company of the 20th century. Diaghilev combined dance, music and art in bold ways to create ‘total theatre’. A consummate collaborator, he worked with Stravinsky, Chanel, Picasso, Matisse and Nijinsky.
Diaghilev’s dramatic performances transformed dance, reawakening interest in ballet across Europe and America. This major retrospective celebrates his enduring influence on 20th–century art, design and fashion and includes more than 300 objects including giant backcloths, original costumes, set designs, props and posters by artists and designers like Léon Bakst, Georges Braque and Natalia Goncharova. These tell the story of a company which began in the social and political upheaval of pre-Revolutionary Russia and went on to cause a sensation with exotic performances that had never been seen before.
2FOR1 Price: £10.00.
Offer Times: 25 September 2010 – 9 January 2011, daily 10.00 – 17.45 (late night opening Fridays until 22.00).
Telephone: 020 7942 2000.
Image: Lydia Sokolova, Anton Dolin, Bronislava, Nijinska, Léon Woizikovsky in costumes for le train bleu designed by Chanel. Photo: Sasha 1924 © V&A Images.
Dates: 25/09/2010 - 09/01/2011
County: London
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