Costumes, dancing, music and sketching

Hello lovelies! As you already guessed I feel an special admiration when in some works drawing and fashion meet.  And as you know, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the so-called third wave of Russian classical music took place, with famous authors such as Stravinsky, Skriabin, Prokófiev and Shostakovich. Under that musical heyday, the collaboration between composers, dancers, actors, choreographers, costume designers and other artists, was very intense and splendid and artists like Matisse, Picasso or Léon Bakst had a prominent role with their contribution in some works and operas, with a remarkable search for a Total Art or the encounter of different artistic disciplines. Here we’ve got an gorgeous example. One more time, thanks so much for your visits!

(If you like ballet dancing you will like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMsHWuLbsOI)

By Henri Matisse – Costumes for ‘Le Chant du Rossignol’ (Composed by Stravinsky)

‘Le chant du Rossignol’, Tamara Karsavina with dancers. Costume designs by Henri Matisse, 1920

Henri Matisse et Léonide Massine, the choreographer (Ballets russes. Opéra)

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Dance, performance and theatre (sometimes with umbrella)

By Shinn, Everett – The dancer of the umbrella

By Abbey, Austin – The dance

By Vertès, Marcel – Jazz dancer

By Charles, Burki – Tropical dancer

By Degas – Little dancer

By Severini, Gino – Spanish dancer

By Rodin, Auguste – Dancer with veil

By Chimot, Edouard – A flapper in love

By Kirchner, Ernst L. – Two women and a man dancing

By Toulouse-Lautrec – A couple of dancers in Moulin Rouge

Dance, performance and theatre

By Rodin – Dancer with veils

By Matisse – Acrobat dancer

By Pontormo – A winged man dancing

 

By Toulouse Lautrec, Henri – A dancer rais her dress in a cabaret of Paris

By Bacon, Francis – Untitled

By Delaunay, Sonia – Woman dressed for a dancing

By Kirchner, Ernst L. – A couple dancing

By Egnéus, Daniel – A dancer disguised with a face of panda

By Prud’hon, Pierre P. – A girl dancing and playing a musical triangle

By Degas – A ballerina during a break

By Wegener, Gerda – The dancer of the ruffled dress

By Vertès, Marcel – A dandy learning to dance

Dance, performance and theatre

By Degas – A lady peeping out from a loge

By Gaulli, Giovanni Battista (Il Baciccio) – Study of a young man dancing

By Kirchner – A woman dancing

By Grosz, George – Scene in a ballroom

By Delaunay, Sonia – Design for a dancer in the Carnaval do Rio

By Matisse – A ballerina

By Toulouse-Lautrec – A dancer twirling her skirt

By Rodin – Dancing

By Bonnard – A poster advertising a performance of russian ballets

By Buck, Adam – The kindred dancers

 

 

By Picasso – Untitled

By Klee – Unknown title

By Nolde – The contortionist dancer

By Goya – A group of men and women dancing

By Rowlandson – A courtship scene in the ballroom

By Micelli – The youthfulness, that we arrived to its end, when we forget it

Dance, performance and theatre

Dear followers:
For this post I had not planned to upload no one of my sketches, but at the last moment, in a corner of a drawer among a lot of papers and flasks of ink I found one.
I apologize for its stains, but this is my humble contribution.
Thanks for your understanding and visits!

By Léger, Fernand – Under the same rhythm

By Matisse – Sleeping dancer

By Rodin – Cambodian dancers

By Van Dongen – At the ballroom

By Kirchner – Eccentric dancers

By Klee – Dance of an harlequin

By Grosz, George – An scene of a party

By Morisot, Berthe – Tightrope walker

By Dürer – Peasant couple dancing

By Egnéus, Daniel – Seated on the floor during a break

By Degas – Three ballerinas fixing the straps of their tops

By Delaunay, Sonia – The tall dancer

By Picasso – Dancer

By Eula, Joe – Sketch of Diana Ross and the Supremes

By Chagall – Untitled

By myself – Old friends dancing

Dance, performance and theatre

By Picasso – ‘La danse’

By Sargent, J. Singer – Dance

By Toth, Jean – Rosella. The sylphs

By Curry, John Steuart – The trapeze artists

By Manet – Detail of a dancer marking a step

By Kirchner – A couple dancing a rock and roll

By Munch – Cabaret

By Boldini, Giovanni – Spectators of a concert

By Dufy, R. – Opera

By Egneus, D. – Two girls dancing

By Bridgens, Richard – Black dancers of a party in the countryside

By Rubissow, Hélène (Elena Rubissova) – A masked oriental dancer

By Degas – Ballerina with legs apart

By Goncharova, Natalia S. – Scenic design for the ballet ‘The Bridal’

By Eula, Joe – Twist dancer in a advertising for a dance floor in Manhattan

By Gauguin – A polynesian dancer

By Chagall – The dancer of the heart on the belly

By Raleigh, H. P. – Message in the intermission of the show

Dance, performance and theatre

By Guys, Constantin – Ballroom in the Palace of the Emperor Napoleon III

By Alma-Tadema, L.- Actresses dancing and acting

By Daumier – Spectators in the stalls of a theater

By Kirchner – The ‘Panama Girls’

By Dix, Otto – Couple dancing

By Bauer, Marius – A Dervish dancing in Constantinople. Turkey

By Gill, W. – Unknown title

By Hazard, S. – Scene of a traditional dance in Cuba

By Forain, J. L. – Rehearsal

By Bantzer, Carl – Two soldiers dancing with women

By Degas – The blonde ballerina

By Rembrandt – The old actor

By Daumier – The showman in front the audience

By Tyshler, Aleksandr G. – Jolly joker

By Cassatt, Mary – Portrait at the theatre

By Wilkie, David – Ballroom

By Picasso – Olga Khokhlova, his russian wife, with six dancers behind her

By Legrand, L.- Seated ballerina

By Degas – Unknown title

By Benois, Alexandre – Scenography for a russian ballet of Sergei Diaghilev

By Rodin – Group of dancers holding hands and forming a circle

By myself – Young man dancing

Dance, performance and theatre

By Rodin – Dancer

By Toulouse-Lautrec – Young ballet dancer while she raise up her tutu

By Degas – Ballet dancers

By Kirchner – Two dancing couples

By Barbier, Georges – Sketch proposal for the Ballet Carnival. (Russian Ballets of Diaghilev Theatre Company)

By Larsson – Dancers

By Matisse – Acrobat

By Dalí – The dance

By Brown-Durand – Unknown title

By Rego, Paula – Sketch for ‘The dance’

By Heckel – Rehearsal in front of the mirror

By Dufy, Raoul – Unknown title

By Disney – Sketch of two characters dancing

By Rembrandt – The performer before acting

By Guys, Constantin – A couple dancing in the street

By Seurat – Orchestra conductor looking at the singer

By Demuth, C. – Unknown title

By Goncharova, Natalia S. – Design for the ballet ‘The Honeymoon’

By Kirchner – Cabaret singer

By Degas – Dancer

By Picasso – Sketch of a dancer’s costume to Falla’s play ‘The three cornered hat’

By myself – Naked dancer of ‘sevillanas’

Dance, performance and theatre

By Daumier – The proclaim of the stray comedians

By Manet – Seated spectators in a theater

By Rodin – Sketch for an asian dancer and the studies of hands

By Sargent, J. S. – A preparatory sketch for ‘The Jaleo’

By Kirchner – Two women dancers

By T.F. Simon – On the stalls of a theatre

By Demuth, C. – Three mariners dancing with women

By Matisse – Sketch after The Dance

By Degas – A ballet dancer while she ties her ‘pointe shoe’

By Gillot – Comedians and musicians

By Toulouse-Lautrec – Ambassadeurs. Aristide Bruant’s cabaret

By Tiepolo – Punches

By Delaunay, Sonia – Egyptian style outfits for women in a ballet

By Vanni, F. – On the left, sketched young man in a gesture of reverence

By Bakst, L. – Costume of a dancer for a russian ballet

By Urs Graf – A couple of peasants dancing

By Calder – The Candies Dance

By Zorn, Anders – The spanish dancer Rosa Mauri

By Gontcharova, Natalia – Scenic design for a ballet with Stravinsky score

By Cunningham, Merce – Dance score

By Steinlen – Several sketches, one of these a woman dancing

By Picasso – Four dancers

By Dunoyer de Segonzac, A. – Souvenir of Isadora

By Rembrandt – Actor with parrot

By Kokoschka – The daughter of the juggler

By Rego, Paula – Drawing for ‘The dance’

Dance, performance and theatre

By Van Gogh – Dance hall in Nuenen (Netherlands)

By Schlemmer – Sketch of ‘Triadic Ballet’

By Pissarro – ‘The Round’

By Botero – The dance

By Beham, Hans Sebald – Goblin dancing

By Seurat – Man dancing

By Kirchner – Dancing couple

By Lebedev, Vladimir – Couple in a modern dance

By Watteau – Four sketches of actors performing beside the sketch of a hand

By Romano, Giulio – Dance with bacchante among two naked fauns

By Picasso – Woman dancing while a ‘Picador’ (Horseman bullfighter) is clapping hands

By Goncharova, Natalia S. – Unknown title

By Rego, Paula – ‘The Rehearsal’

By Kirchner – Three dancers of Can-Can

By Bakst, Leon – The main character in ‘Afternoon of a Faun’

By Degas – Four dancers

By Whistler – Woman dancer

By Matisse – Mask (Face)

By Boucher – Young country girl dancing

By Callot – Fair of Gondreville in France

By Bernard, Joseph A. – Two women and a child naked, dancing in a landscape

By Poussin – A dance to the music of Time

By Degas – Three dancers in yellow skirts

By Ilia Efimovich Repin – Portrait of actress Eleonora Duse

By Rego, Paula – A drawing for ‘The dance’

By Rodin – Five naked women dancing

By Toulouse-Lautrec – Four sketches of figures practicing with the rings in a circus

By myself – Sketches of actress saluting