Podcast » Pauline Clayden
Pauline Clayden was born in 1922. Here she talks to Patricia Linton about her student days, and moves on to her dancing life up until joining the Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1942. There was great...
ballets » La Boutique fantasque
Alexandra Danilova and Léonide Massine in La Boutique fantasque
Credit: Library of Congress, Music Division
Set in an enchanted toy shop in the 1860s, Léonide Massine’s La Boutique fantasque was one of his happiest and most effervescent works, danced to Ottorino Respighi’s arrangement of some of Gioachino Rossini’s piano pieces and charming designs by André Derain. It was staged by Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1947 and The Royal Ballet Touring Company in 1968.
Timeline Event » 1919 – World premieres of La Boutique fantasque and Le tricorne, by the Ballets Russes
La Boutique fantasque and Le tricorne Set in an enchanted toy shop in the 1860s, Léonide Massine’s La Boutique fantasque was one of his happiest and most effervescent works, danced to Ottorino...