Research Catalog

Title

Letters to Boris Kochno, 1967-1972.

Author

Migel, Parmenia.

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1 box (6 folders)

Summary

Parmenia Migel Ekstrom writes (mostly from New York City) to Boris Kochno trying to help publish his book on Serge Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. She also talks about creating an exhibition of his collection and of her attempts to create a Diaghilev foundation in Venice. The book, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, was published in English in 1970. Kochno's collection, with that of Serge Lifar, was exhibited at Musée Galliéra in Paris in 1972. The Diaghilev foundation never materialised. Ekstrom also talks about contemporary dance people such as Marie Rambert, Tamara Karsavina, Carla Fracci, and Leonid Massine.

Subjects

• Kochno, Boris
• Migel, Parmenia
• Correspondence
• Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929

Genre/Form

Correspondence.

Note

• Letters written by Parmenia Migel Ekstrom to Boris Kochno.

Source (note)

• John Armbruster

Biography (note)

• Boris Kochno, born 1904 in Moscow, was a well-educated person with a knowledge of constructivist painting. He came to Paris in 1920 and was soon introduced to Serge Diaghilev. Although not a dancer, choreographer, or designer, he became a man behind the scenes who help deal with the various artists who worked with Diaghilev's company. After Diaghilev's death in 1929, Kochno moved to London where he assisted in the staging of Cochran's Revue of 1930. In the following few years, he worked with George Balanchine in several adventures. In 1945, he became the artistic director of Ballets des Champs-Élysées, working with the choreographer Roland Petit. He wrote Le ballet en France (1954) and, published simultaneously in English and French editions, Diaghilev et les Ballets Russes (1970). He died in 1990 in Paris.
• Parmenia Migel was born in New York City June 14, 1908. She was educated in the United States and France and became interested in ballet in the 1930's, when she founded and directed the Ballet Guild, an organization to find and commission new works for the Massine/Denham Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. In 1933, she married the New York art dealer Arne H. Ekstrom. She lived in France from 1946-1955 and founded and co-directed the Galerie Michael Warren in Paris. Returning to New York City, she founded the Dance Department of the New School for Social Research. She wrote both poetry and books on dance, including The ballerinas: from the court of Louis XIV to Pavlova (1972), Pablo Picasso, designs for The three-cornered hat (1978), Great ballet prints of the romantic era (1981), and Great ballet stars in historic photographs (1985). In 1986, she curated an exhibition entitled Four hundred years of dance notation which was shown both at New York City's Grolier Club and the Harvard Theatre Collection in Cambridge, Mass. She died on November 14, 1989 in New York City.

Call Number

(S) *MGZMD 171

OCLC

774900044

Author

Migel, Parmenia.

Title

Letters to Boris Kochno, 1967-1972.

Biography

Boris Kochno, born 1904 in Moscow, was a well-educated person with a knowledge of constructivist painting. He came to Paris in 1920 and was soon introduced to Serge Diaghilev. Although not a dancer, choreographer, or designer, he became a man behind the scenes who help deal with the various artists who worked with Diaghilev's company. After Diaghilev's death in 1929, Kochno moved to London where he assisted in the staging of Cochran's Revue of 1930. In the following few years, he worked with George Balanchine in several adventures. In 1945, he became the artistic director of Ballets des Champs-Élysées, working with the choreographer Roland Petit. He wrote Le ballet en France (1954) and, published simultaneously in English and French editions, Diaghilev et les Ballets Russes (1970). He died in 1990 in Paris.

Parmenia Migel was born in New York City June 14, 1908. She was educated in the United States and France and became interested in ballet in the 1930's, when she founded and directed the Ballet Guild, an organization to find and commission new works for the Massine/Denham Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. In 1933, she married the New York art dealer Arne H. Ekstrom. She lived in France from 1946-1955 and founded and co-directed the Galerie Michael Warren in Paris. Returning to New York City, she founded the Dance Department of the New School for Social Research. She wrote both poetry and books on dance, including The ballerinas: from the court of Louis XIV to Pavlova (1972), Pablo Picasso, designs for The three-cornered hat (1978), Great ballet prints of the romantic era (1981), and Great ballet stars in historic photographs (1985). In 1986, she curated an exhibition entitled Four hundred years of dance notation which was shown both at New York City's Grolier Club and the Harvard Theatre Collection in Cambridge, Mass. She died on November 14, 1989 in New York City.

Research Call Number

(S) *MGZMD 171