Homage to a Princess
Costume
1956 (made)
1956 (made)
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Dance costume designed by André Levasseur and worn by John Gilpin in Homage to a Princess 1956.
Waist-length, red wool jacket with tunic fastening at the back. It has velvet trimming at neck and cuffs and black and white asymmetrical decorative braids and decorative metal buttons, some painted white. The colouring of the costumes picked up on Monegasque national colours.
Hommage à la Princesse (Homage to a Princess) was created for the marriage of Prince Rainier SAS to Grace Kelly and dedicated to SAS Princess Grace. It was first performed at the Opera House, Monte Carlo on 18 April 1956 by London’s Festival Ballet. The ballet, in 5 movements, was choreographed by Michael Charnley to a theme by Anton Dolin with an original score by Stan Kenton
Deliberately youthful and ‘modern’ the short ballet (running time 17 minutes) used as Charnley as choreographer as he was ‘the nearest to a Modern Dance choreographer we have in England’ and jazz music by Kenton to represent Kelly’s America. As Peter Williams noted in Dance & Dancers June 1956 ‘André Levasseur has already shown that few people designing for ballet today have a better sense of theatre and colour…It seems that Lavasseur not only has a wonderful sense of line, no doubt a legacy of his years with Christian Dior, but also a sense of what is fitting for movement'.
Waist-length, red wool jacket with tunic fastening at the back. It has velvet trimming at neck and cuffs and black and white asymmetrical decorative braids and decorative metal buttons, some painted white. The colouring of the costumes picked up on Monegasque national colours.
Hommage à la Princesse (Homage to a Princess) was created for the marriage of Prince Rainier SAS to Grace Kelly and dedicated to SAS Princess Grace. It was first performed at the Opera House, Monte Carlo on 18 April 1956 by London’s Festival Ballet. The ballet, in 5 movements, was choreographed by Michael Charnley to a theme by Anton Dolin with an original score by Stan Kenton
Deliberately youthful and ‘modern’ the short ballet (running time 17 minutes) used as Charnley as choreographer as he was ‘the nearest to a Modern Dance choreographer we have in England’ and jazz music by Kenton to represent Kelly’s America. As Peter Williams noted in Dance & Dancers June 1956 ‘André Levasseur has already shown that few people designing for ballet today have a better sense of theatre and colour…It seems that Lavasseur not only has a wonderful sense of line, no doubt a legacy of his years with Christian Dior, but also a sense of what is fitting for movement'.
Object details
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| Title | Homage to a Princess (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Wool, velvet and braid, with metal buttons |
| Brief description | Dance costume designed by André Levasseur and worn by John Gilpin in Homage to a Princess 1956 |
| Physical description | Dance costume designed by André Levasseur and worn by John Gilpin in Homage to a Princess 1956. Waist-length, red wool jacket with tunic fastening at the back. It has velvet trimming at neck and cuffs and black and white asymmetrical decorative braids and decorative metal buttons, some painted white. The colouring of the costumes picked up on Monegasque national colours. |
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| Credit line | Given by Jelko Yuresha |
| Summary | Dance costume designed by André Levasseur and worn by John Gilpin in Homage to a Princess 1956. Waist-length, red wool jacket with tunic fastening at the back. It has velvet trimming at neck and cuffs and black and white asymmetrical decorative braids and decorative metal buttons, some painted white. The colouring of the costumes picked up on Monegasque national colours. Hommage à la Princesse (Homage to a Princess) was created for the marriage of Prince Rainier SAS to Grace Kelly and dedicated to SAS Princess Grace. It was first performed at the Opera House, Monte Carlo on 18 April 1956 by London’s Festival Ballet. The ballet, in 5 movements, was choreographed by Michael Charnley to a theme by Anton Dolin with an original score by Stan Kenton Deliberately youthful and ‘modern’ the short ballet (running time 17 minutes) used as Charnley as choreographer as he was ‘the nearest to a Modern Dance choreographer we have in England’ and jazz music by Kenton to represent Kelly’s America. As Peter Williams noted in Dance & Dancers June 1956 ‘André Levasseur has already shown that few people designing for ballet today have a better sense of theatre and colour…It seems that Lavasseur not only has a wonderful sense of line, no doubt a legacy of his years with Christian Dior, but also a sense of what is fitting for movement'. |
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| Accession number | S.170-2017 |
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| Record created | April 10, 2017 |
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