Le Spectre de la rose
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About the sculpture
This figurine is modelled after the ballerina Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978) as the young girl and the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) as the Spirit of the Rose in Mikhail Fokine's one-act ballet Le Spectre de la rose. In the ballet the young girl returns from a ball holding a rose given to her by a young man. When she falls asleep the Spirit of the Rose floods her dreams and she imagines herself dancing with him after he comes through her bedroom window. Karsavina's performance was celebrated for its lightness and waking-dream ethereality, and Nijinsky's for his stupendous elevation and androgynous sensuality.
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The ballet was first performed at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo in 1911 with designs by Leon Bakst and brought to the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes later that year. In Russia Fokine had attempted to revolutionise the Imperial Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre by creating short, unrelated ballets that could be grouped for an evening’s entertainment. The management of the Imperial Ballet did not support him, but the impresario Diaghilev did, and adopted the practice of programming shorter, separate works such as this.
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- S.870-1981
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