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Gala performance
- Title
- Gala performance [graphic].
- Author
- Laing, Hugh.
- Publication
- [1987?]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZGV 12-2316 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987.
- Description
- 11 paintings on cardboard : watercolor, gouache, gold pigment, color; 31 x 53 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- Maquettes for scenes 1 and 2. Three pieces for scene 1: backdrop, border, and stage left legs. Eight pieces for scene 2: backdrop, cut cloth, legs (4 pieces), borders (2 pieces).
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Set design drawings.
- Note
- The individual pieces of the maquettes are labeled on the verso with the ballet's title and scene number.
- Biography (note)
- Set designs for a revival of Antony Tudor's ballet Gala performance (music, Sergei Prokofiev). Dancer Hugh Laing, 1911-1988, had danced in this ballet's first performance in London in 1938, as well as its Ballet Theatre premiere in 1941. In 1970 he designed costumes for a revival by the Royal Danish Ballet. He designed sets and costumes as well as supervising the ballet's revival by American Ballet Theatre, first presented in California in Dec. 1987. These maquettes may have been created for that production.
- Call Number
- *MGZGV 12-2316
- OCLC
- 821848412
- Author
- Laing, Hugh.
- Title
- Gala performance [graphic].
- Imprint
- [1987?]
- Biography
- Set designs for a revival of Antony Tudor's ballet Gala performance (music, Sergei Prokofiev). Dancer Hugh Laing, 1911-1988, had danced in this ballet's first performance in London in 1938, as well as its Ballet Theatre premiere in 1941. In 1970 he designed costumes for a revival by the Royal Danish Ballet. He designed sets and costumes as well as supervising the ballet's revival by American Ballet Theatre, first presented in California in Dec. 1987. These maquettes may have been created for that production.
- Local Note
- For Laing's costume designs for the 1970 revival by the Royal Danish Ballet, see: *MGZGA Lai H Gal 1-10.Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Added Author
- Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987. Associated name
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGV 12-2316