DAN 245 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: George Balanchine, Neoclassical Ballet, Sergei Diaghilev
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108-12) (from dance as a theatre art) there was a great deal of experimentation in ballet during the 1920s. Neoclassical ballet had a focus on professional design and composition elements of gymnastics, acrobatics, and popular social dances were added to ballets in paris, diaghilev embarked upon a period of avant-garde experimentation. Pablo picasso frequently worked with diaghilev on cubist designs for ballets. Picasso made cubist sets and costumes that appeared in parade and le tricorne. Stravinsky continued to compose music for the ballet russes. L onide massine joined the company as a choreographer after fokine and nijinsky. Other characters were the acrobats, the american girl, and the chinese conjurer the idea and writing for parade were conceived by cocteau. Massine"s le tricorne (the three cornered hat) used authentic spanish dancing. Diaghilev revived the sleeping beauty as the sleeping princess after massine left it failed because it was seen as old-fashioned to the modernist audience.
