Dress
Costumes
Inventory number
2018.12.11.3.CO.SC.C1970.FRDescription
Stage long women's dress, with three level voluminous skirt part with a sewed satin petticoat, for corps de ballet dancer in "Petrushka", based on original design of Alexandre BENOIS."Petrushka" is a ballet burlesque in four scenes. It was composed in 1910–11 and revised in 1947. Igor STRAVINSKY composed the music, and, with Alexandre BENOIS, fashioned the libretto. Michel FOKINE choreographed the ballet; BENOIS designed the sets and costumes. "Petrushka" was first performed by Sergei DIAGHILEV's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 13 June 1911.