Vera Willoughby1870–1939
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Illustration by Vera Willoughby/Vera Petrovna of Leonide Massine in Le Soleil de nuit which was probably executed for a proposed monograph on Massine similar to those published by Cyril Beaumont on Tchernicheva, Lopokova and Idzikowski.
The Midnight Sun (Le Soleil de Nuit) was Massine's first ballet, premiered at the Grand Theatre in Geneva on 20 December 1915, with designs by Michel Larionov, music by Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov and with Massine in the title role. it was a series of formal dances, founded on Russian folk dances, presented in a stylised Russian setting. Cyril Beaumont described how 'Finally the Sun God appeared in a radiant costume of fire red and gold, his breast decorated with a giant sun and holding a resplendent gold and red sun in each hand, which scintillated as they were passed rapidly in front of each other or shot out at arm’s length at various angles.'
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Massine described his own role was 'based on classical movements, I made use of broad arm movements, and strengthened my performance with rapidly repeated elevations…Larionov had designed for me a sumptuous glittering costume with a fantastic headdress of burning red suns which glowed against the inky-blue of the midnight sky. Attached to my hands by elastic were two more gold suns, the size of dinner plates, decorated with jagged red borders. As I danced, I flashed them in rapidly alternating rhythms, to the left, to the right, over my head, down below my knees. In order to sustain the illusion of a revolving sun, I was forced to keep every muscle in my body in constant motion until the end of the dance.'
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Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- S.439-2000
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