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Ida Lvovna Rubinstein [1] (5 October 1885 St. Petersburg, Russia - 20 September 1960, Vence, France) was a ballet dancer, patron and iconic Belle Epoque beauty. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (805x498, 27 KB) Valentin Serov. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (805x498, 27 KB) Valentin Serov. ...
Self-portrait, 1880ies Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (Russian: Валентин ÐлекÑандрович Серов) (1865 - 1911) was a Russian painter. ...
1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Vence is a small French town set in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes region, between Nice and Antibes. ...
The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker. ...
The Belle poque, or beautiful era, was a period in Frances history that began during the late 19th century and lasted until World War I. Occurring at the midpoint of the Third Republic, the Belle poque was considered a golden time of beauty, innovation, and peace between France and...
Early Life
Born into a wealthy Jewish family, Rubinstein was orphaned at an early age. She had, by the standard of Russian ballet, little formal training. Under the private tutalage of Mikhail Fokine she debuted in 1909 with a single private performance of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, stripping completely nude in the course of the Dance of the Seven Veils. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...
Michel Fokine or Mikhail Mikhailovich Fokin (Михаил Михайлович Фокин) (April 23, 1880 (OS: April 11) – August 22, 1942) was a Russian choreographer and dancer. ...
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. ...
In several areas of Western culture, the Dance of the Seven Veils (usually described as danced by Salomé) is one of the elaborations on the historical and biblical tale of the execution of John the Baptist. ...
Serge Diaghilev took her with the Ballets Russes and she danced the title role of Cléopâtre in the Paris season of 1909. This performance was as a powerful spectacle, the costumes were designed by Leon Bakst and the finale inspired Kees van Dongen's Souvenir of the Russian Opera Season 1909. Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Сергей Павлович Дягилев) (March 19, 1872 – August 19, 1929), often known as Serge, was a Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise. ...
Léon Bakst: Firebird, Ballerina, 1910 The Ballets Russes was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev and resident first in Paris and then in Monte Carlo. ...
Leon Bakst (1866-1942) was a Russian painter and scene- and costume- designer. ...
Kees van Dongen (January 26, 1877 – May 28, 1968), was a Dutch painter born in Delfshaven. ...
Depictions in Art, Ballet Rubinstein was also much celebrated in art. Her portrait by Valentin Serov in 1910 marks the most complete realization of his mature style. The Art Deco sculptor Demetre Chiparus produced a Rubinstein figurine and she was painted by Antonio de la Gandara. Self-portrait, 1880ies Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (Russian: Валентин ÐлекÑандрович Серов) (1865 - 1911) was a Russian painter. ...
Demetre H. Chiparus (1886-1947) was an Art Deco era sculptor who lived and worked in Paris. ...
Antonio de La Gandara (December 16, 1861 - June 30, 1917) was a painter, pastellist and draughtsman. ...
Bisexual, Rubenstein began (in 1911) a three-year affair with the painter Romaine Brooks, who created a striking portrait and used her as a nude model for Venus. In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ...
Romaine Brooks (1874–1970) was a bisexual painter of the symbolist school. ...
Statue of Venus in the British Museum. ...
Rubinstein danced with the Ballet Russe again in the 1910 season, performing in Scheherazade, a ballet based on the first story of the Thousand and One Nights, choreographered by Michel Fokine and written by him and Léon Bakst. This was admired at the time for its racy sensuality and sumptuous staging, these days, though, it is rarely performed, it is considered too much of a pantomime and the then fashionable Orientalism appears dated. The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة in Arabic or هزار و یک شب in Persian), also known as The book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, 1001 Arabian Nights, or simply the Arabian Nights, is a piece of classic Arabic literature in...
Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages and peoples by Western scholars. ...
In 1911 she performed in Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien, Gabriele D’Annunzio wrote the part for her and it was scored by Claude Debussy. This was both a triumph for its stylized modernism and a scandal; the arch-bishop of Paris requested Catholics not attend because St. Sebastian was being played by a woman and a Jew. DAnnunzio Gabriele DAnnunzio (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, daredevil and war hero, who went on to have a controversial role in politics as a precursor of the fascist movement. ...
Claude Debussy Achille-Claude Debussy () (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a composer of European classical music. ...
After she left the Ballet Russe, Rubinstein founded and funded several ballet companies and she worked with a number of important choreographers and composers including Arthur Honegger. She commissioned and performed in Maurice Ravel's Boléro in 1928, she often staged free ballet events and continued to dance until the start of the second World War. Arthur Honegger (March 10, 1892 – November 27, 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. ...
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his music and generally considered to be one of the major composers of the 20th century. ...
The Boléro is one of Maurice Ravels (1875-1937) most famous pieces of music. ...
Rubinstein is not considered to be among first rank of ballerinas, she began her training too late for that to be a possibility. She did, however, have tremendous stage presence and was able to act. She was a significant patron and she tended to commission works that suited her abilities, works that mixed dance with drama and stagecraft.
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