Ballets Russes

Orchestration: The techniwue of setting music ofr instruments in various comninations. Romanticism: The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension. Virtuoso: Performer of extrordinary technical ability. a charismatic figure who was technically brilliant on his or her instrument and who riveted audiences in public concerts as well as in private recitals in fashionable salons. Tempo Rubato: Perfoemer…

Gabrielle Bonheur “CoCo” Chanel was a famous French designer and entrepreneur. She created a turning point in the fashion industry for women worldwide. She designed clothes that had never been seen before. She also extended her designing beyond clothing. Chanel began to sell handbags, jewelry, and perfumes. She is best known for her determination, aspiration, and spirit which she used toward her professional life and social life. Gabrielle Chanel was born August 19, 1883 in Saumur…

Pablo Picasso: The Greatest Artist of the 20th Century For the astonishing stylistic width and intellectual depth displayed in his artworks, Pablo Ruiz Picasso was, without any doubt, one of the greatest, most controversial, and influential visual artist of the 20th century. During the several significant stylistic shifts Picasso went through—most notably the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubist Period, African Period, and Surrealist Period—Picasso explored the emotionally provocative power of…

In Homage to Goncharova (1979) she paid tribute to the theater and costume designs created by Natalia Goncharova for the Ballet Russes in the 1920s. Her interest in theater continued in the "Presentation" series of 1982-1983, in which an abstract "figure" was enclosed by two borders resembling a proscenium arch and curtain.The figure finally asserted itself in Schapiro's work…

This concert was performed by Flutist Laurel Zucker and Pianist John Cozza. This concert included works by Paul Taffanel, Olivier Messiaen, Eric Ewazen, Germaine Tailleferre, and Charles Griffes. Laurel Zucker is a flutist who left home at the age of 14 to study at the North Carolina School for the arts. She grew up with her brother and sister in Washington Heights, in Manhattan. Zucker begged her parents for a flute after hearing recordings and graduated high school at the age of 16 and studied…

This had a huge impact on him because it led to his decision to take formal dance lessons with Lester Horton as the door to his foreseen future in dance. He was hugely intrigued by a dance he saw at the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Dance Company perform and this inspired his dance debut. As a student of Lester Horton, after seeing Katherine Dunham’s Dance Company, an all-black dance troupe, Ailey then had a dream – to head his own dance troupe. Ailey trained…