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Balanchine.’ The design for this costume is in the V&A collections S.445-1979 showing the costume worn with black shoes and white stockings, a white shirt and narrow black tie. The dancer is holding a pink cape and wearing a dark wig. Photographs suggest that wigs were not worn for the Spanish entrée. When the costumes were catalogued the numbering muddled the parts of the dancers’ costumes.\r\nLe Bal (The Ball), a modern ballet in one act and two scenes had sets and costumes designed Giorgio de Chirico, was created for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 7 May 1929. The musical score was by Vittorio Rieti, the narrative by Boris Kochno, after a story by Count Vladimir Sologub, and it was choreographed in 1929 by George Balanchine. The costumes executed under the direction of Mme A. Youkine. The original ballet had 15 performances being presented only during the last season of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo, Paris, Berlin and London where it was first performed on 26 July 1929 also at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. When Massine created a new version of the ballet in 1935 using the original score, sets and costumes the Spanish entrée was danced by Vania Posta and Marian Ladre with Tamara Grigorieva.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Cutaway jacket in ginger silk velvet, with white fake fur collar trimmed with two bands of gold silk braid. On the front and back are white braid arabesques and on either shoulder a white cotton cord tasselled epaulette. 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At that time Woizikowsky's costume was purchased by Brook St. Gallery and Balanchine's by J. Carter for £30 and £40 respectively. Acquired for the V&A via the Friends of the Museum of Performance","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Costume for a male dancer in the Spanish pas de trois in Balanchine's ballet <i>Le Bal</i>, designed by Giorgio de Chirico, Diaghilev Ballet, 1929.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["S.852-1980","S.852A-1980"],"accessionNumberNum":"852","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":1980,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Theatre costume [1]","Theatre costume [2]"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-10-14","recordCreationDate":"2009-07-01","availableToBook":true}}