Dance Archives an exclusive Classical Music e-Magazine Wed, 18 Oct 2023 07:37:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Musicians and Artists: Stravinsky and Benois https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-igor-stravinsky-and-alexandre-benois/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-igor-stravinsky-and-alexandre-benois/#respond Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:05:43 +0000 http://interlude.hk/?p=96383 Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes hit Europe like a storm: no one had ever seen ballet taken to this level. Founded in 1909 by Diaghilev and lasting 20 years, the Ballet was based in Paris and traveled around Europe and to

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-igor-stravinsky-and-alexandre-benois/feed/ 0 Take a ride on “Le Train Bleu” https://interlude.hk/take-ride-le-train-bleu/ https://interlude.hk/take-ride-le-train-bleu/#respond Sat, 24 Jun 2017 16:00:02 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=62548 Between 1886 and 2003, the Calais-Mediterranée Express shuttled wealthy, beautiful and famous passengers between Calais and the French Riviera. Because of its dark blue sleeping cars, it was colloquially known as “Le Train Bleu,” or simply the “Blue Train” in

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]]> https://interlude.hk/take-ride-le-train-bleu/feed/ 0 The Interplay of Art, Music and Dance https://interlude.hk/interplay-art-music-dance/ https://interlude.hk/interplay-art-music-dance/#respond Sat, 13 May 2017 20:00:12 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=62031 “Painting can be a conversation with oneself and, at the same time, it can be a conversation with other paintings” (Jasper Johns, 1989) In this second of two articles I will briefly return to the relationship between Edvard Munch, the

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]]> https://interlude.hk/interplay-art-music-dance/feed/ 0 Artists at the Opera & Ballet: Pablo Picasso https://interlude.hk/artists-opera-ballet-pablo-picasso/ https://interlude.hk/artists-opera-ballet-pablo-picasso/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2016 16:00:21 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=55866 When you look at everything that the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was involved with, you have to cover most of the fine arts and then add a good slog of literature. He was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and

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]]> https://interlude.hk/artists-opera-ballet-pablo-picasso/feed/ 1 Martha Graham: Picasso of Dance https://interlude.hk/martha-graham-picasso-dance/ https://interlude.hk/martha-graham-picasso-dance/#respond Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:00:32 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=53715 Recognized as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Martha Graham created a movement language based upon the expressive capacity of the human body. Throughout a long and illustrious career, Graham created 181 dance compositions that crossed artistic

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]]> https://interlude.hk/martha-graham-picasso-dance/feed/ 0 Music and the Arts in 19th and 20th Century Russia II https://interlude.hk/music-and-the-arts-in-19th-and-20th-century-russia-ii/ Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:00:21 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=36687 In last month’s article I focused on the relationships between musicians, artists and writers in 19th century Russia, which foreshadowed the even more drastic changes of the beginning of the 20th century. Not only would the artists and painters, associated

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]]> Music and the Arts in 19th and 20th Century Russia I https://interlude.hk/music-and-the-arts-in-19th-and-20th-century-russia-i/ https://interlude.hk/music-and-the-arts-in-19th-and-20th-century-russia-i/#respond Sun, 08 Sep 2013 02:31:07 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=36670 The recent exhibition of ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes’ at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. and several of the recent Interlude articles on the same subject raised interesting and important questions about the connection and inter-relationship between the arts

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]]> https://interlude.hk/music-and-the-arts-in-19th-and-20th-century-russia-i/feed/ 0 Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes: When Art danced with Music https://interlude.hk/diaghilev-and-the-ballet-russes-when-art-danced-with-music/ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:00:19 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=35265 The current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. “Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929: When Art Danced with Music” brings into focus one of the most productive eras in the arts, in which poetry, art, theater,

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