Serge Diaghilev and his World:

A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev’s
Ballets Russes

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Premiere of La Nuit sur le Mont Chauve, 1924 (br0052)

Premiere of La Nuit sur le Mont Chauve, 1924
Natalia Goncharova. Costume design for La Nuit sur le Mont Chauve, ca. 1923. Watercolor. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (052.00.00)
Digital ID # br0052

Unidentified dancers in La Nuit sur le Mont Chauve, 1924. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (053.00.00)
Digital ID # br0053

Les Biches, Bronislava Nijinska’s Parody on 1920s Sexual Mores (br0054)

Les Biches, Bronislava Nijinska’s Parody on 1920s Sexual Mores
Vera Nemchinova as the Blue Girl in Les Biches, ca. 1924. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (054.00.00)
Digital ID # br0054

Marie Laurencin. Curtain design for Les Biches, ca. 1923. Watercolor. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (055.00.00)
Digital ID # br0055

Le Train Bleu, a 1920s View of the Shallowness of Modern Love (br0057)

Le Train Bleu, a 1920s View of the Shallowness of Modern Love
Original cast of Le Train Bleu, 1924. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00)
Digital ID # br0057

Leon Woizikowski, Lydia Sokolova, Bronislava Nijinska, and Anton Dolin in Le Train Bleu, 1924. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (059.00.00)
Digital ID # br0059

The Ballets Russes on Tour (br0061)

The Ballets Russes on Tour
Poster for a June 1922 performance at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (061.00.00)
Digital ID # br0061

Ballets Russes on tour in Cologne, Germany, 1924. Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (064.00.00)
Digital ID # br0064

Ballets Russes dancer and choreographer Adolph Bolm’s passport, 1913–1921. Adolph Bolm Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (062.00.00)
Digital ID # br0062

Ballets Russes on tour, 1929. From left to right: conductor Roger Désormière; Serge Diaghilev; dancer Serge Lifar; Diaghilev’s secretary and librettist Boris Kochno; and dancers Alexandra Danilova, Lubov Tchernicheva, and Felia Doubrovska. Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (068.00.00)
Digital ID # br0068

The Ballets Russes Tours to South America, 1913 (br0066)

The Ballets Russes Tours to South America, 1913
Members of the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, August 28, 1913. Bronislava Nijinska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (066.00.00)
Digital ID # br0066

The Ballets Russes on One of its Last Tours (br0067)

The Ballets Russes on One of its Last Tours
Ballets Russes on tour in Montreux, Switzerland, 1929. Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (067.00.00)
Digital ID # br0067

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