Shoe
ca.1930 (made)
Bronislava Nijinska admired the ballerina Anna Pavlova and choreographed several divertissement for members of her company in 1929-1930 when dancers previously with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes joined her. Correspondence in the Nijinska Archive (now housed in the Library of Congress, Washington suggests she created solos Le Petit Nègre to music by Claude Debussy for Léon Woizikowsky and Dance with a Hoop to music by Franz Liszt for Felia Doubrovska but there is no evidence that they were ever performed.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Silk satin, Hessian, Glue, Leather |
| Brief description | Pointe shoe worn by Anna Pavlova, given to Bronislava Nijinska |
| Physical description | Well-worn pointe shoe of pink silk satin with inner-sole removed and pink silk ribbons attached at either side. Pink silk satin outer body, leather sole. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mark Fordham |
| Summary | Bronislava Nijinska admired the ballerina Anna Pavlova and choreographed several divertissement for members of her company in 1929-1930 when dancers previously with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes joined her. Correspondence in the Nijinska Archive (now housed in the Library of Congress, Washington suggests she created solos Le Petit Nègre to music by Claude Debussy for Léon Woizikowsky and Dance with a Hoop to music by Franz Liszt for Felia Doubrovska but there is no evidence that they were ever performed. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.36-2016 |
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| Record created | October 27, 2015 |
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