Jane Howard's mother, Katharine M. Howard
, née Somervell, the intellectual of her very musical family, had trained as a ballet dancer and had a brief career with Diaghilev
's Ballets Russes
under the name...
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
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Occupation
Una Troubridge
By the age of sixteen, UT
had begun receiving commissions for her sculptures and had rented a studio of her own in which to exhibit her works. The money she earned from these commissions gave...
Travel
Nina Hamnett
Gellibrand (NH
gives only her surname) was the daughter of a Russian mother and an English father who shipped timber for pit-props from the northern forests.
Hooker, Denise. Nina Hamnett: queen of bohemia. Constable and Company Limited, 1986.
Laver, James, and Christina Probert. Costume and Fashion: A Concise History. Thames and Hudson, 1982.
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Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
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Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-up. Studio Vista, 1970.
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6 March 1911: The Ballets Russes gave the final performance...
Building item
6 March 1911
The Ballets RussesSergei Pavlovich Diaghilev
gave the final performance of their first season (which included Le Dieu Bleu, L'Oiseau de Feu, L'Après-Midi d'un Faune, and Prince Igor) at Covent Garden Opera House
, in London.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
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11, 14, and 23 July 1913: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes brought Igor Stravinsky's...
Schouvaloff, Alexander. The Art of Ballets Russes. Yale University Press in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1997, http://U of A, Ruth N Flr 4.
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22 July 1919: Manuel de Falla's ballet set in eighteenth-century...
Building item
22 July 1919
Manuel de Falla
's ballet set in eighteenth-century Spain, The Three Cornered Hat, with sets and costumes designed by Pablo Picasso
, premiered at the Alhambra Theatre
in London, performed by the Ballets RussesSergei Pavlovich Diaghilev
.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
357
Boeck, Wilhelm, and Jaime Sabartés. Picasso. Thames and Hudson, 1955.