Nijinsky
LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS Scenario: Nicholas Roerich and Igor Stravinsky; music Stravinsky; decor and costumes: Roerich; choreography: Vaslav Nijinsky. Premiere: Paris, 29 May 1913, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Reconstruction premiere: Los Angeles, 30 September 1987, Joffrey Ballet.
TILL EULENSPIEGEL Scenario: Richard Strauss and Vaslav Nijinsky; music: Strauss; decor and costumes: Robert Edmond Jones; choreography: Nijinsky. Premiere: New York, 23 October 1916, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Reconstruction premiere: Paris, 9 February 1994, Paris Opera Ballet.
Reconstructions
Balanchine
LE CHANT DU ROSSIGNOL Scenario: Hans Christian Andersen; music Igor Stravinsky; decor and costumes; Henri Matisse; choreography: George Balanchine. Premiere: Paris, 17 June 1925, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Reconstruction premiere: The Hague, 16 November, 1999. Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo.
COTILLON Scenario: Boris Kochno; music: Emmanuel Chabrier, orchestrated by Chabrier, Felix Mottl and Vittorio Rieti; decor and costumes: Christian Bérard; choreography: George Balanchine. Premiere: Monte Carlo, 17 January 1932, Colonel Vassili De Basil’s Ballets Russes. Reconstruction premiere: New York, 26 October 1988, Joffrey Ballet.
Borlin
SKATING RINK Scenario: Riciotto Canudo; music: Arthur Honegger; decor and costumes: Fernand Léger; choreography: Jean Börlin. Premiere: Paris, 20 January, 1922, Rolf de Maré’s Ballet Suédois. Reconstruction premiere: Zurich, 6 January 1996. Zurich Ballet.
LA CRÉATION DU MONDE Scenario: Blaise Cendrars; music: Darius Milhaud; decor and costumes: Fernand Léger; choreography: Jean Börlin. Premiere: Paris 25 October, 1923, Rolf De Maré’s Ballets Suédois. Reconstruction premiere: Geneva, 15 December, 2000, Geneva Ballet and Fluxum Foundation.
