Research Catalog

Title

[Costume designs for Ruth Page] [graphic].

Author

Remisoff, Nicolas.

Publication

[1926?-1938?]

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Details

Additional Authors

Page, Ruth, 1899-1991.

Description

• 19 drawings (18 sheets) : gouache, watercolor, graphite, crayon, color or b&w; 40 x 29 cm. or smaller.
• 1 drawing on tracing paper : gouache, crayon, graphite, color ;
• 3 items : manuscript ;

Summary

Costume designs for the dancer-choreographer Ruth Page. Some of the designs include the notations "not used" or "never done." The collection has been arranged in three groups: designs labeled with the titles of dance works, designs for unidentified dance works, and letters.

Subject

• Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
• American pattern (Choreographic work : Page and Stone)
• Cuban night (Choreographic work : Page)
• Garconette [1930] (Choreographic work : Page)
• Lament (Choreographic work : Page)
• Morning in spring (Choreographic work : Page)
• Vida breve (Choreographic work : Page)

Genre/Form

Costume design drawings.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.

Source (note)

• Ruth Page.

Biography (note)

• The artist and stage designer Nicolas Remisoff, 1884-1975, began his career in his native St. Petersburg. Fleeing the Bolsheviks, he lived and worked for a time in Paris, then moved to Chicago, where he resided from 1925 to 1935. During that time he frequently collaborated with Ruth Page, designing sets and costumes for many of her ballets.
• La vida breve (music, Manuel de Falla) and the opera Marouf appear to be the earliest works represented in this collection; both were performed by the Ravinia Opera, respectively in 1926 and 1928. Page danced the role of the princess in a version of L'histoire du soldat (music, Igor Stravinsky) presented by the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1931. The collection includes designs for several of her solo dances of the early 1930s: Garconette (music, Francis Poulenc), Cuban night (music, Ernesto Lecuona y Casado), Lament (music, Aleksandr Tcherepnine), and Morning in spring (music, Vaughan Williams). Page is said to have danced the solo Phoenix in a studio performance ca. 1932; however, the two drawings in this collection are marked "never done," and one is additionally marked "not used." American pattern (choreography, Page and Bentley Stone; music, Jerome Moross) was first performed by Chicago City Opera Company in 1937; the design in this collection is marked "not used."

Contents

• Folder 1. Labeled designs (13 drawings on 12 sheets): American pattern, Apache dance, Fleurette, Garconette, Lament?, Liebestraum or Night of the poor, Marouf, Cuban night? [on the verso of Marouf], Morning in spring, Phoenix [two sheets], Story of the soldier [i.e., Histoire du soldat], Sevillana from La vida breve. On the verso of the design for Story of the soldier are graphite sketches, including a three-quarter-length figure, but it is uncertain whether they relate to the dance work.
• Folder 2. Designs for unidentified dance works (7 sheets) -- Letters (3 sheets): includes two letters dated 1938, one addressed to "Rutheda" and the other to Tom [Thomas Hart Fisher, Page's husband], both signed Remy. An undated letter addressed to Rutheda is initialed N.R. All three include sketches of trunks (garments); one includes a color sketch of tights.

Call Number

*MGZGD Rem N Cos 1-22

OCLC

824795016

Author

Remisoff, Nicolas.

Title

[Costume designs for Ruth Page] [graphic].

Imprint

[1926?-1938?]

Biography

The artist and stage designer Nicolas Remisoff, 1884-1975, began his career in his native St. Petersburg. Fleeing the Bolsheviks, he lived and worked for a time in Paris, then moved to Chicago, where he resided from 1925 to 1935. During that time he frequently collaborated with Ruth Page, designing sets and costumes for many of her ballets.

La vida breve (music, Manuel de Falla) and the opera Marouf appear to be the earliest works represented in this collection; both were performed by the Ravinia Opera, respectively in 1926 and 1928. Page danced the role of the princess in a version of L'histoire du soldat (music, Igor Stravinsky) presented by the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1931. The collection includes designs for several of her solo dances of the early 1930s: Garconette (music, Francis Poulenc), Cuban night (music, Ernesto Lecuona y Casado), Lament (music, Aleksandr Tcherepnine), and Morning in spring (music, Vaughan Williams). Page is said to have danced the solo Phoenix in a studio performance ca. 1932; however, the two drawings in this collection are marked "never done," and one is additionally marked "not used." American pattern (choreography, Page and Bentley Stone; music, Jerome Moross) was first performed by Chicago City Opera Company in 1937; the design in this collection is marked "not used."

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

Gift; Ruth Page.

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Added Author

Page, Ruth, 1899-1991. Collector

Page, Ruth, 1899-1991. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZGD Rem N Cos 1-22