Costume Design
1925 (drawn)
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Touring (also called The Sports Ballet and Touring Review) was choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska for her Theatre Chorégraphique Nijinska and first performance by them on 7 August 1925 at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth. Touring was a ballet of contemporary life and sports for the full company. It appears to have taken inspiration from Francis Poulenc’s Promenades (1921), using six of the ten piano solos to focus on a variety of transportation and locomotion. Touring, described by Allan Ulrich as ‘an epic about transportation, incorporating utilitarian objects, metal safety reflectors and riding crops’ was one of the most popular productions for the Theatre Chorégraphique and the Aviators solo appears to have been re-staged for the Teatro Colon 1926. Nijinska had a good relationship with Poulenc who admired her Les Biches another ballet of contemporary life on which they had collaborated the previous year.
An alternative annotated design with sheepskin collar (not used) is in the Bronislava Nijinska Collection in the Library of Congress
The costume (in very poor condition) is now in the V&A's Theatre & Performance Collection
An alternative annotated design with sheepskin collar (not used) is in the Bronislava Nijinska Collection in the Library of Congress
The costume (in very poor condition) is now in the V&A's Theatre & Performance Collection
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil and gouache |
| Brief description | Costume design by Alexandra Exter for Jan Hoyer as the Aviator in the ballet Touring, 1925. |
| Physical description | Costume design by Alexandra Exter for Jan Hoyer as the Aviator in the ballet, Touring (1925). He wears a blue helmet, a grey outfit with a black jerkin, and brown boots with grey tops. |
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| Object history | Exhibited Bronislava Nijinska A Dancer’s Legacy, Cooper-Hewitt Museum 18 March – 6 July 1986 and The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco 13 September 1986 – 4 January 1987 1986 Cat. No.113 Reproduced in Nancy van Norman Baer Bronislava Nijinska A Dancer’s Legacy, San Francisco 1986 p.54 |
| Summary | Touring (also called The Sports Ballet and Touring Review) was choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska for her Theatre Chorégraphique Nijinska and first performance by them on 7 August 1925 at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth. Touring was a ballet of contemporary life and sports for the full company. It appears to have taken inspiration from Francis Poulenc’s Promenades (1921), using six of the ten piano solos to focus on a variety of transportation and locomotion. Touring, described by Allan Ulrich as ‘an epic about transportation, incorporating utilitarian objects, metal safety reflectors and riding crops’ was one of the most popular productions for the Theatre Chorégraphique and the Aviators solo appears to have been re-staged for the Teatro Colon 1926. Nijinska had a good relationship with Poulenc who admired her Les Biches another ballet of contemporary life on which they had collaborated the previous year. An alternative annotated design with sheepskin collar (not used) is in the Bronislava Nijinska Collection in the Library of Congress The costume (in very poor condition) is now in the V&A's Theatre & Performance Collection |
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| Accession number | S.12-2016 |
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| Record created | October 27, 2015 |
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