Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

“We were all revolutionists in those days ... fighting for the cause of Russian art,” Serge Diaghilev, the founder and longtime director of the Ballets Russes, told American critic Olin Downes in 1916. “We have tried, ... to build up an art expressive in every phase of the Russian temperament.” Raised in Perm at the foot of the Ural Mountains, Diaghilev began his artistic journey in the Russian heartland, and the early years of the Ballets Russes were filled with its sounds, stories, and images. But the Mediterranean world also beckoned, and its call led to the creation of several ballets set in antiquity, in the imagined heart of the West. This talk will explore the idea of antiquity in the Ballets Russes as an assertion of Western identity amid the exotic splendors of Russianness.

Published 03/12/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

Classics scholar and former Royal Ballet dancer Tom Sapsford examines the cultural impact of dance in classical and modern contexts. By putting the professional and personal lives of dancers from the ancient Mediterranean world and early twentieth-century Paris side by side, this lecture explores how these temporally disparate dance makers gained their specific expertise, practiced their art, and realized their aesthetic aims.

Published 03/06/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

Illustrator and teaching artist Joan Chiverton leads an afternoon of figure drawing in conjunction with Hymn to Apollo. Participants will develop their sketching skills and discover new ways of seeing as they draw live models in poses inspired by images of dancers depicted in ancient artifacts and modern performances by the Ballets Russes.

Published 03/06/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

Inspired by Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, which is the first exhibition to focus specifically on the role of ancient world in the work of the Ballet Russes, costume designers Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung will use original Ballets Russes costumes and designs as their point of departure for this Works & Process costume and dance commission. Please register via the Guggenheim Museum website.

Published 03/12/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

Inspired by Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, which is the first exhibition to focus specifically on the role of ancient world in the work of the Ballet Russes, costume designers Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung will use original Ballets Russes costumes and designs as their point of departure for this Works & Process costume and dance commission. Please register via the Guggenheim Museum website.

Published 03/12/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

Illustrator and teaching artist Joan Chiverton leads an afternoon of figure drawing in conjunction with Hymn to Apollo. Participants will develop their sketching skills and discover new ways of seeing as they draw live models in poses inspired by images of dancers depicted in ancient artifacts and modern performances by the Ballets Russes.

Published 03/06/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

That the visual experience of ballet performance resembles dreams has been a particularly popular idea in modern times, repeatedly stated in influential nineteenth- century ballet criticism, such as that of Théophile Gautier and Stéphane Mallarmé. This talk will explore the cognitive and broader aesthetic implications of this exciting notion and will trace similar approaches to dance in Greek and Greco-Roman antiquity.

Published 02/27/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

Join us in the galleries for a 20-minute in-depth discussion of a single object from Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes. Every Wednesday from March 6 - May 29 we will focus on one object and explore its specific history, iconography, and manufacture in this brief lunchtime talk. Each discussion will feature a different object, and visitors are welcome to return for a fresh conversation each week.

Published 03/18/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

Join us in the galleries for a 20-minute in-depth discussion of a single object from Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes. Every Wednesday from March 6 - May 29 we will focus on one object and explore its specific history, iconography, and manufacture in this brief lunchtime talk. Each discussion will feature a different object, and visitors are welcome to return for a fresh conversation each week.

Published 04/01/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

Part of a series of lunchtime gallery talks: Wednesdays, March 6–May 29,11:30–11:50am Join us in the galleries for a 20-minute in-depth discussion of a single object from Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes. In this brief lunchtime talk, participants will engage in a guided conversation exploring the specific history, iconography, and manufacture of one of the objects on view in our current exhibition. Each weekly gallery talk will feature a different object presented by one of the Exhibitions staff, and visitors are welcome to return for a fresh conversation each week. This week, our Object History will be presented by Kate Justement, the Exhibitions Graduate Assistant at ISAW. Registration is not required.

Published 04/01/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event, hymn-to-apollo Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2018-2019

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