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Gala performance

Title
Gala performance [graphic].
Author
Laing, Hugh.
Publication
[1987?]

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Still imageSupervised use *MGZGV 12-2316Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987.
Description
11 paintings on cardboard : watercolor, gouache, gold pigment, color; 31 x 53 cm. or smaller.
Summary
Maquettes for scenes 1 and 2. Three pieces for scene 1: backdrop, border, and stage left legs. Eight pieces for scene 2: backdrop, cut cloth, legs (4 pieces), borders (2 pieces).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Set design drawings.
Note
  • The individual pieces of the maquettes are labeled on the verso with the ballet's title and scene number.
Biography (note)
  • Set designs for a revival of Antony Tudor's ballet Gala performance (music, Sergei Prokofiev). Dancer Hugh Laing, 1911-1988, had danced in this ballet's first performance in London in 1938, as well as its Ballet Theatre premiere in 1941. In 1970 he designed costumes for a revival by the Royal Danish Ballet. He designed sets and costumes as well as supervising the ballet's revival by American Ballet Theatre, first presented in California in Dec. 1987. These maquettes may have been created for that production.
Call Number
*MGZGV 12-2316
OCLC
821848412
Author
Laing, Hugh.
Title
Gala performance [graphic].
Imprint
[1987?]
Biography
Set designs for a revival of Antony Tudor's ballet Gala performance (music, Sergei Prokofiev). Dancer Hugh Laing, 1911-1988, had danced in this ballet's first performance in London in 1938, as well as its Ballet Theatre premiere in 1941. In 1970 he designed costumes for a revival by the Royal Danish Ballet. He designed sets and costumes as well as supervising the ballet's revival by American Ballet Theatre, first presented in California in Dec. 1987. These maquettes may have been created for that production.
Local Note
For Laing's costume designs for the 1970 revival by the Royal Danish Ballet, see: *MGZGA Lai H Gal 1-10.
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Added Author
Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987. Associated name
Research Call Number
*MGZGV 12-2316
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