Research Catalog
Les noces
- Title
- Les noces [graphic] / Oliver Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Oliver Lemuel, 1918-1994.
- Publication
- 1965.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZGE Smi O Noc 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Terry, Walter.
- Found In
- Donald Saddler collection.
- Description
- 1 painting : watercolor, color; 36 x 43 cm.
- Summary
- Set design for Jerome Robbins's ballet Les noces. It includes a depiction of the chorus, standing on risers behind the dancers' stage space. Smaller figures in front of them may represent the four solo singers. On the backdrop are three towering figures in biblical robes and haloes, probably representing saints; two of these are visible in a photograph of American Ballet Theatre's 1965 production.
- Alternative Title
- Donald Saddler collection. Graphics.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Set design drawings.
- Note
- Signed and dated.
- Inscribed: To Walter [Terry]. Oliver.
- Source (note)
- Donald Saddler
- Biography (note)
- Les noces (choreography, Jerome Robbins; music, Igor Stravinsky) was first performed by American Ballet Theatre in 1965. An earlier version, also danced to Stravinsky's score, had been choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska in 1923 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
- Oliver Smith designed sets for ballet, musical theatre, opera, drama, and film. His long association with American Ballet Theatre began with Jerome Robbins's first ballet, Fancy free, in 1944, and he served as the company's co-director, with Lucia Chase, from 1945 to 1980.
- Walter Terry, 1913-1982, championed the cause of dance through his many books and dance reviews for the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Review.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of Donald Saddler collection. Graphics.
- Call Number
- *MGZGE Smi O Noc 1
- OCLC
- 824910425
- Author
- Smith, Oliver Lemuel, 1918-1994.
- Title
- Les noces [graphic] / Oliver Smith.
- Imprint
- 1965.
- Biography
- Les noces (choreography, Jerome Robbins; music, Igor Stravinsky) was first performed by American Ballet Theatre in 1965. An earlier version, also danced to Stravinsky's score, had been choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska in 1923 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.Oliver Smith designed sets for ballet, musical theatre, opera, drama, and film. His long association with American Ballet Theatre began with Jerome Robbins's first ballet, Fancy free, in 1944, and he served as the company's co-director, with Lucia Chase, from 1945 to 1980.Walter Terry, 1913-1982, championed the cause of dance through his many books and dance reviews for the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Review.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of Donald Saddler collection. Graphics.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; Donald Saddler, 2011.
- Added Author
- Terry, Walter. DedicateeSaddler, Donald. Donor
- Added Title
- Donald Saddler collection. Graphics.
- Found In:
- Donald Saddler collection.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGE Smi O Noc 1