I wish I could have found a video featuring Clotilde and Alexandre Sakharov.  But we have done very well.  YouTube provided us with a performance of the grand Pas de deux, from Marius Petipa‘s Don Quixote (music by Ludwig Minkus), executed by Natalia Osipova & Ivan Vasiliev, now stars of the St Petersburg’s Mikhaylovsky Theatre and a married couple.

Barbier’s coloring is impressive.  Note, for instance, how he has used color to separate the bodies of his two dancers.

Artwork

Musée de l’affiche, Paris (Photo credit: Alfredo Dagli Orti / The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY (with permission from Art Resource, NY).

For more information on the Ballets Russes, in Paris, please click on Sergei Diaghilev, Ballets Russes and Vaslav Nijinsky.  The Ballets Russes toured between 1909 and 1929, and Paris loved them.

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English

The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html

The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html

The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/

Le Monde diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/ EN

 

CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/

CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/

 

French

Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/

Le Monde: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/

Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/

La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/

 

German

Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/

 

© Micheline Walker

12 July 2012

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