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.
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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.
32-3
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...
Timeline
4 June 1910: Schéhérazade (with music by Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov)...
Laver, James, and Christina Probert. Costume and Fashion: A Concise History. Thames and Hudson, 1982.
224
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
256
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.
107
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.