THE BALLETS RUSSES PROJECT:  Glass Chapel Dance (for Les Noces)


A short film inspired by Bronislva Nijinska's ballet Les Noces
and Stravinsky's score, with a debt to Marcel Duchamp and early Russian cinema.

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Glass Chapel Dance (for Les Noces) screened as part of the Dance Film Project
in Minneapolis, December 11th and 12th, 2009:
http://www.cinemarevolution.org/dancefilm.html

Here are some stills from the project:  film stills 2

THE BALLETS RUSSES PROJECT: THE PERILS

Part of Artery 24 at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis
With Lauren Fichtel, Corby Kelly, and Peytie McCandless
July 2009

Details:
http://artery24.com/ 

http://www.soapfactory.org/exhibit.php?content_id=155 

Featuring the antics of the Little American Girl, liberated from Cocteau/Picasso/Satie's Parade. 
Inspired by the serial silent film classic The Perils of Pauline.

A link to the Soap Factory's TV show's coverage is here: remains

THE BALLETS RUSSES PROJECT:  cinematic study
film stills


THE BALLETS RUSSES PROJECT: the firebird stripped bare
                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                        2009 marked the centennial of the venerable Ballets Russes and in my recent workshop at Macalester College, I devised fragments from a new work inspired by the troupe’s experimental approach to narrative and their later modernist abstractions.  We considered the company’s radical interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, and it’s alternately nostalgic and avant-garde modes.

The workshop presentation consisted of fragments and scene studies inspired by 3 pivotal ballets that marked various phases in the company’s development:  Firebird (1910); Parade (1917); and Les Noces (1923).  The text sprang from the writings of the artists themselves, the poetry of another Russian émigré in Paris after the Revolution, Marina Tsvetayeva, and the ubiquitous Baedeker, in a mash-up with the Dadaist film Entr'acte with music by Satie, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Irving Berlin.