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Reimagining the Ballet des Porcelaines. A Tale of Magic, Desire, and Exotic Entanglement
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2022 Hardback, 168 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:84 col., Language: English. ISBN 9781912554812.
Summary In September 1739 at the château de Morville near Paris, a group of elite amateur artists staged a ballet pantomime known as the ?Ballet des Porcelaines,? and sometimes also as ?The Teapot Prince.? Written by the comte de Caylus, with music by Grandval, it tells the story of a prince who searches for his beloved on a faraway island ruled by an evil magician. The magician has turned the island's inhabitants into porcelain, an event the audience witnesses in the form of a male and female singer who spin around on stage until they transform into vases. Aside from the libretto and the score, nothing survives of the Ballet des Porcelaines. The costumes and choreography are unknown. Although it inspired later famous ballets featuring sleeping beauties and porcelain princesses, it seems to have been staged only twice: first in 1739 and again two years later on the grounds of the estate, next to a lake encircled by vases and an illuminated arch suggesting a nighttime performance. The château's owner served as France's foreign minister and promoted trade with Asia. We can assume some kind of chinoiserie imagery and context for the ballet, which can be interpreted both as a standard fairy tale love story and as an allegory for the intense European desire to know and steal the secrets of porcelain manufacture. The ballet is an example of the deep intertwining of visual and performing arts in eighteenth-century France, and to an enchantment with Asia embodied on stage and in life by porcelain goods. The plot's animation of porcelain also relates to a period understanding of the permeable boundary between persons and things manifested in a variety of cultural forms. The ballet exemplifies the profound sense of magic, mystery, and desire that porcelain instilled in European viewers (who referred to it as ?white gold?), an effect that is lost on many museumgoers today. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments Meredith Martin Contributors I HISTORICAL REIMAGININGS Once Upon a Time at the Château de Morville: Commerce, Colonialism, and Chinoiserie in the Ballet des Porcelaines Meredith Martin My Porcelain Sickness Phil Chan Conjuring 1740: A Tale of Europe's Obsession with Porcelain Charlotte Vignon II ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS Costume Design: Q&A with Harriet Jung Meredith Martin Choreography: Q&A with Xin Ying Meredith Martin Entering the Ivory Tower of Baroque Ballet Patricia Beaman Musically Steeping a Pot of Tea Leah Nelson Finding the Sound in Between Sugar Vendil III THE LOST BALLET The Manuscript: Libretto and Score Le Prince Pot-à-Thé: Ballet Pantomime French Transcription Dominique Quéro The Teapot Prince: A Pantomime Ballet Annotated English Translation Christine Jones IV CONTEMPORARY RESTAGINGS Photographs of the MET Peformance, December 6, 2021 Making the Porcelain Dance Wolf Burchard, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Chinese Fantasies of Porcelain on the Cusp Between Life and Death Judith T. Zeitlin, The University of Chicago Living Things or the Collector as Audience:Animate Porcelain Dancers Elizabeth Rouget, Princeton University A Smash Hit in the Making Mia Jackson and Kate Tunstall, Waddesdon Manor and University of Oxford A Teapot Prince and His Enchanted Palace: The Royal Pavilion, Brighton Alexandra Loske, The Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust Brighton & Hove A Porcelain Room and a Teapot Prince:Maria Amalia's Salottino di porcellana and Le Prince Pot-à-Thé in Naples Sarah K. Kozlowski and Sylvain Bellenger, The Museum and Royal Park of Capodimonte, Naples Palazzo Grassi or the Past Revisited Bruno Racine, Palazzo Grassi, Venice The Sèvres Manufactory: Three Centuries of a Ballet of Porcelain Romane Sarfati and Charlotte Vignon, Sèvres-Manufacture et musée nationaux Works Cited
Scene e machine preparate alle Nozze dit Teti... Décorations et Machines aprestées aux Noces de Tetis, Ballet Royal... Dédiées au Prince Cardinal Mazzarin. Exceptionnel recueil de suites baroques de théâtre, architecture et décoration, gravées en premier tirage sous la régence d’Anne d’Autriche et conservé dans son vélin orné de l’époque.
Ces gravures absolument exquises, en premier tirage, gravées par I. Silvestre sur les dessins de François Francart, d’après Torelli, excellent à représenter le raffinement et le luxe des ballets de cour sous le règne de Louis XIV. Paris, 1654.(1) f. de titre et 10 pl. gravées par I. Silvestre.Chauveau, François (1613-1676).6 planches de décor de théâtre.S.l.n.d. [Paris, vers 1650].Torelli. Feste Theatrali per la Finta pazza...S.l.n.d. [Paris, vers 1645].Titre allégorique par Stéfano della Bella (1610-1664) et 5 planches gravées par Nicolas Cochin (1610-1686) d’après Torelli. Berlin, 4118.Parigi, Alfonso (1606-1656).5 planches de décors de théâtre incluant 4 scènes de La Flora de Andrea Salvadori.S.l. [Paris], 1628. Berlin, 4114.Bella, Stefano della.7 planches de décors de théâtre pour « Le nozze de Gli dei », de Giancarlo Coppola, d’après les dessins de Alfonso Parigi (sans le titre).[Florence, 1637]. Hofer, 70.Chauveau, François. Alaric ou Rome vaincue.Suite complète du titre et des 10 planches gravées illustrant l’édition originale du poème épique « Alaric ou la Rome vaincue » de Georges de Scudery.[Paris, 1654].Perelle, Gabriel (1603-1677).16 gravures circulaires de paysages.[Paris], Jean le Blond (vers 1670).Berlin, 4465.Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682).- Autels, tombeaux, cheminées. 8 planches.- Paysages, architecture avec riches bordures ornementales incluant des scènes bibliques. 12 planches.- Fontaines. 17 planches.- Fonds baptismaux et églises baroques. 2 planches.- Décorations baroques peintes et sculptées de murs et plafonds. 12 planches.- Scènes du Nouveau Testament au sein d’encadrements baroques très ornementaux. 6 planches.- Grands vases baroques devant des paysages ou au sein d’encadrements ornementaux. 6 planches.- Cariatides portant des vases baroques. 6 planches.Vouet, Simon (1590-1649) et Dorigny, Michel (1616-1665).Livre de diverses grotesques, peintes dans le cabinet et bains de la Reyne Régente, au Palais Royal.Paris, Galeries du Louvre, 1647.Titre et 14 planches. Berlin, 4004.Soit 16 suites d’estampes, grand in-4 oblong, reliées en vélin orné, tranches dorées. Reliure d’époque.280 x 389 mm.
Superbe recueil baroque de 146 estampes en premier tirage de décors de théâtre, perspectives, architectures, décorations d’intérieurs baroques, parcs et fontaines par les plus grands artistes italiens et français du règne de Louis XIV : Torelli, François Chauveau, Simon Vouet, Stefano della Bella, Israël Silvestre, Jean le Pautre, Gabriel Perelle...Le recueil s’ouvre sur la suite magistrale en premier tirage des grandes perspectives du décor de théâtre baroque de Giacomo Torelli, le plus important « metteur en scène » du milieu du XVIIe siècle.Il produisit ses dessins pour la première fois pour le public du théâtre de Venise puis à partir de 1645 comme « metteur en scène » de la troupe de la comédie italienne.Il s’intéressa particulièrement au « ballet de cour » plutôt qu’à l’opéra, flattant ainsi la passion du Roi Louis XIV pour la danse.Sa carrière en France se termina brusquement en 1661 avec la disgrâce de Fouquet pour lequel il avait réalisé les décors des « Facheux » de Molière joués devant Louis XIV durant la Fête qui provoqua l’emprisonnement de son protecteur.“Torelli brought the one-point perspective, set to its apogee with designs that revelled in a use of perspective that drew the eye to the horizon and beyond, theatre stages seemed to extend to infinity. Despite this apparent obsession with the infinite, however, Torelli also brought « closed » space to the stage. Interior scenes became more common and were often quite shallow. His innovations in stage machinery allowed not only stage flats to be changed, but also the borders of the sky. This allowed an interchange between interior and exterior sets, and Torelli would often alternate between open and enclosed sets to create a new sense of rhythm in the visual aspect of opera. His experimentation with different types of stage space were not limited to the contrast between interior and exterior either. Torelli would often delimit the foreground of an exterior set with a structure such as a hill or a fountain, allowing the audience only glimpses of the background perspective.Torelli’s technical innovations included machinery that allowed sets to be changed in an instant, rather than slowly with a crew of at least sixteen stage hands. This, amongst other things, led to a notable increase in the number of sets per opera.Torelli not only designed the sets but was also closely involved with innovations in stage machinery. He created new techniques for changing the scenes and also machinery for flying characters around the stage, mimicking weather effects, and so on, and was nicknamed the ‘grand stregone’ or the great magician”.Ces gravures absolument exquises, en premier tirage, gravées par I. Silvestre sur les dessins de François Francart, d’après Torelli, excellent à représenter le raffinement et le luxe des ballets de cour sous le règne de Louis XIV.Dans ces ballets les plus célèbres du temps le Roi lui-même prenait plaisir à danser sur scène ainsi dans ces « Noces de Thétis » où il joua avec succès le rôle d’Apollon.Le recueil est dédié à Mazarin, protecteur des acteurs italiens à la Cour de la régente Anne d’Autriche jusqu’en 1661.L’ensemble des 15 autres suites, ici en premier tirage, témoignent du faste de la décoration baroque française sous la régence de la reine Anne d’Autriche et au tout début du règne de Louis XIV, telle cette suite de Simon Vouet figurant « les grotesques peintes au Palais royal dans le cabinet et bains de la Reyne Régente ».Une suite rarissime et bien complète du titre et des 10 planches illustre l’édition originale du poème épique de Georges de Scudery : « Alaric ou la Rome vaincue ». Paris, 1654.Tchemerzine qui ne cite pour l’édition originale que l’exemplaire de la bibliothèque nationale, mentionnait « figures de Chauveau » avec une collation erronée, corrigée par Lucien Scheler qui ajoute « les figures de Chauveau sont comprises dans la pagination ». Tchemerzine, V, 776.Dans la suite d’un tirage extrêmement pur contenue ici dans le recueil, aucune numérotation n’est apposée sur les gravures. Il s’agit donc d’un tirage à part, absolument rarissime, imprimé avant la numérotation.Exceptionnel recueil de suites baroques de théâtre, architecture et décoration, gravées en premier tirage sous la régence d’Anne d’Autriche et conservé dans son vélin orné de l’époque.Il provient de la bibliothèque du 6e Duc de Devonshire (1790-1858) avec ex-libris gravé.
Ballets des Champs-Elysées. Direction artistique Boris Kochno. Maitre de ballet Roland Petit.
1946 Paris, 1946, in 4° en feuilles, sous chemise rempliée illustrée (par Christian Bérard).
Tirage limlité et numéroté. Plaquette éditée à l'occasion de la saison de Printemps 1946 des Ballets des Champs-Elysées à l'Adelphie de Londres, sous la direction artistique de Boris Kochno. Préface de Jean COCTEAU, Photographies et 3 planches en couleurs de Maris LAURENCIN, CLAVE et J. D. MALCLES ; publicités. ...................... Photos sur demande ..........................
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L'Histoire du Ballet et de la Danse en Occident.
P., Albin Michel, 1977, in 4°, cartonnage de l'éditeur, jaquette illustrée en couleurs, 192 pages ; index in-fine ; très nombreuses illustrations ; petits frottis à la jaquette.
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"[BALLETS RUSSES] - DE BRUNOFFF, DIAGHILEV, APOLLINAIRE, COCTEU, BAKST, PICASSO etc.
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(1909)
Collection des plus beaux numéros de Comoedia illustré et des programmes consacrés au Ballets & Galas Russes depuis le début a Paris 1909-21. - [THE GREATEST REVOLUTION IN THE HISTORY OF THEATRE AND BALLET]
Paris, (1909-21). Folio. Silk over bevelled boards. Front board with a splendid large inset colour illustration (from ""The Firebird"" by Natalia Gontcharova). Binding sunned and with professionally restored spine. Corners a bit bumped. A bit of creasing to extremities of some leaves, as the size varies somewhat. A few loose leaves. Profusely illustrated in colour (some pochoir) and in black/white throughout. A very nice copy of this magnificent book. 4 pp., being title-page and note from the editors +1909: 2 pp. introduction + 1909 Saison Russe - Opera et Ballet: 10 pp., including a cover illustration by Bakst +1910: 3 pp. introduction + cover illustration of Comoedia Illustré no. 18 (June 15, 1910) with portrait of Catherine Gheltzer + Comoedia Illustré special issue - supplement to no. 18: 14 pp., including two cover illustrations by Bakst +1911: 2 pp. introduction + Programme Officiel des Ballets Russes. Théâtre du Châtelet. June 1911: the extra goldembellished transparent paper covers + 34 pp., including cover illustration by Bakst (Nijonsky in La Péri) and another eight illustrations by Bakst (costume designs for Narcisse and Dieu Bleu and stage design for Narcisse) + 10 pp. from the sixth season of the Ballets Russes at Chatelet, with costumes by Jean Cocteau + 10 pp. on ""Petrouchka"" and ""Schérezade"" + ""Le Carnaval"" + 1 leaf of text introducing ""Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien"": 12 pp. from Comoedia Illutré devoted to this, including a cover illustration by Bakst (showing Ida Rubinstein as St. Sebastien) +1912: 2 pp. introduction + Comoedia Illustré 7th season: 16 pp. devoted mainly to ""Dieu Bleu"" and ""Daphnis et Chloé"", including cover illustration by Bakst and a further five illustrations by Bakst (costume designs, decor and scene) + 5 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on ""Le Dieu Bleu"" + 1 p. being the illustrated cover for the June 1912 special issue of Comoedia Illusté, showing Karsavina and Bolm in Thamar (costumes by Bakst) + 8 pp. on ""Thamar"", ""Petrouchka"", and ""Scherezade"", including the 4 pp. spread on ""Scherezade"" that is laid in loose and which contains illustrations of Bakst's nine costumes + two covers mounted back-to-back from the special issue of the seventh season of the Ballets Russes, showing Bakst's illustration of Nijinsky in ""L'Après-Midi d'un Faune"" + 8 pp. on ""L'Apres Midi di Faune"" + 10 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on ""Le Carnaval"", ""Daphnis et Chloé"" + 2 pp. (""title-page"" for Ida Rubinstein in ""Hélène de Sparte"" and Salomé) + special issue on ""Hélène de Sparte"": 16 pp., including cover illustration by Bakst (of Ida Rubinsein as Helen) and a further five costume and scenic designs by Bakst + 6 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on Helen of Sparta + 4 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on Oscar Wilde's ""Salomé"" + 20 pp. including illustrations by Bakst for ""Boris Godounoff"", text on and illustrations for ""Jeux"", ""Sacre du Printemps"", ""Kowanchina"", and ""Daphnis et Chloé"" +1913: 2 pp. introduction + Eigth Season of Ballets Russes: 6 pp., including cover illustration of Schollar, Nijinsky, and Karsavina in ""Jeux"" by Valentine Gross + 1 p. (""title-page"" for Ida Rubinstein in ""La Pisanelle ou la Mort Parfumée"" with costumes by Bakst + Comoedia Illustré No. 18, June 1913: 17 pp., including cover illustration of Ida Rubinstein in ""La Pisanelle, in couture by Worth, decor by Bakst, etc. +1914: 2 pp. introduction + 28 pp. on the Ballets Russes 1914-season, including a full-page illustration of Kousnetzoff in costume by Bakst, , costume designs for ""La Légende de Joseph"" by Bakst, and a two-page costume-spread for ""Rossignol"" by Benois + 2 pp. on ""Le Rossignol"" by Maurice Ravel"" + 4 pp. from Ballets Russes on ""Le Coq d'Or"" + 2 pp. on ""Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew"" by Calvocoressi + 1915: 1 p. introduction +1917: 1 p. introduction + the special issue of ""programme des Ballets Russes"", 1917: 26 pp., constituting THE MAY 1917 ""THÉATRE DU CHATELET"" SEPARATE PUBLICATION MAINLY DEVOTED TO JEAN COCTEAU'S GROUNDBREAKING BALLET ""PARADE"", INCLUDING APOLLINAIRE'S FAMOUS FOREWORD (COINING ""SURREALISM"") AND THE TWO FAMOUS COLOUR-ILLUSTRATIONS BY PICASSO +1919-20: 2 pp. introduction + 4 pp. of ""Les Ballets Russes a l'Opéra"", Jan-Feb. 1920 + Cover from the Comoedia Illustré special issue with costume designs for ""Tricorne"" by Picasso + the complete programme for the Ballets Russes 1919-1920: 32 pp., including drawings by Picasso, set and costume designs by Derain, and costume designs by Bakst + 1920: 2 pp. introduction + complete special issue for the ""Ballets Russes à l'Opéra"", May-June 1920: 10 pp., including cover design of costumes for ""L'Austice feminine"" and designs by Sert +1921: 2 pp. introduction + 20 pp. from Commoedia Illustré , including drawings of Strawinsky and Picasso and a 2-page spread of costume and scenic designs for ""Le Bouffon"" by Larionow. This is a stunning 380-page limited edition, compiled by the programme publishers of the Ballets Russes themselves, Maurice and Jacques de Brunoff.
Very rare limited original edition of this splendid production by the Brunoff-brothers, which constitutes a collection of the most important, most influential, and most beatiful parts of the original Ballets Russes-publications, together with explanatory forewords By V. Svetloff, written and printed for this collection. ALL THE PROGRAMMES ARE THE ORIGINAL PRINTINGS, collected and bound here in this special compilation, which presents a selection of extracts from the magazines, together with the souvenir programmes (that were published as supplements), arranged in chronological order. This work vividly documents the famous ballet company that premiered such groundbreking productions as Igor Stravinsky's Firebird, Petrushka, Rite of Spring, Parade, etc.Among the most important of all the publications present, is the magnificent May 1917 ""Théatre du Chatelet"" separate publication (mainly devoted to the ballet ""Parade""), which constitutes one of the most important publications in the history of modern art. It is here, in his presentation-article to ""Parade"" that Apollinaire coins the term ""surrealism"" and thus lays the foundation for the seminal cultural movement that Bréton came to lead. Furthermore, the ballet ""Parade"" represents a historical collaboration between several of the leading artistic minds of the early twentieth century: Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Léonide Massine, and Serge Diaghilev, and is especially famous, not only for its contents and its music, but also for its magnificent costumes designed by Picasso, the drawings of which are presented in the present publication for the first time - most famously the front cover for the ""Parade""-programme, which depicts the ""Costume de Chinois du ballet ""Parade""/ aquarelle de Picasso"", an etching with original, stunning pochoir-colouring (hand-painted by Picasso himself!).This one programme epitomizes the importance and infuence of the magnificent ""Comoedia Illustré"", of which all the most important contributions are collected here, in this one stunning volume. This amazing ballet monthly was published in Paris between 1908 and 1921. The special issues are generally speaking the most important ones, as they were often devoted to the annual Paris season of Serge Diaghilev's Balletes Russes and Ida Rubinstein's Galas Russes and document the amazing endeavours of these. These groundbreaking special issues (the May 1917 being merely an example), are geerally lavishly illustrated, usually in full colour, often heightened in gold, with costume and set designs and enriched with portraits of the leading singers and dancers in the ballets. The vast amount of colour illustrations throughout this collection includes contributions to the magnificent history of the Ballets Russes by such distinguished artists as Pablo Picasso and Léon Bakst. As the groundbreaking 1917 ballet ""Parade"" - the first of the modern ballets - originally presented for the first time in the present publication, marks Picasso's entry into the public and bourgeois institutions of ballet and theatre and presents Cubism on the stage for the first time, so Bakst's splendid costume and set designs depicted over numerous issues here for the first time presents the application of art nouveau design concepts to the stage. The present compilation of original publications presents an outright revolution in the history of art, theatre, and ballet on many levels.The introductory leaves to each year are almost all written by Svetloff (= Valerian Ivchenko), who was a famous Russian critic and the first biographer of Anna Pavlova.
