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The Cubist elements of the managers’ costumes hinted at the disintegration of a world they knew, recalling the fractured cityscapes of war. Nevertheless the costumes for the ‘acts’ the managers’ introduced were more traditional. That for the Conjuror was inspired by music hall magicians, who frequently adopted a Chinese persona. The most famous was Chung Ling-Soo, an American who had begun his career in magic as Robinson the Mystery Man.\r\nThe Conjuror was danced firstly by Léonide Massine and subsequently (after Massine had been dismissed from the Ballets Russes) by Woizikowski. Both also danced the Chinese Conjurer’s solo in programmes as independent dancers (in music halls or as guest artists with other companies). This costume was probably a second version worn by Léon Woizikovski although the last owner, Serge Lifar inscribed the costume with the names Leonid Massine, Leon Wojcikowski and Serge Lifar. \r\nAccording to information from Lydia Sokolova, Vassili (Diaghilev’s wardrobe master) gave the costume to Woizikowski after Diaghilev’s death. At that time Woizikowski was performing the solo in divertissement programmes including with Marie Rambert’s embryonic company. In 1958 Sokolova noted in a letter to Richard Buckle that during World War 2 Woizikowski in his native Poland ‘buried the costumes and other things in the ground in Poland. His home was burnt down, but he found the things intact.’ She commented ‘He has worn the Chinese dress very much and is going to Paris to try and sell [it].’\r\n","physicalDescription":"The costume is in three parts.\r\nA wide Chinese-style jacket of scarlet silk satin appliqued in chrome yellow satin in a sunburst pattern and with a flat yellow collar. The tunic has a decorative scalloped hem of padded silver tissue and on the front a padded curled decoration of, now tarnished, silver cloth. There is similar decoration but unpadded on the back picked out further with grey and black stitching. These are often referred to as clouds but when re-staging the ballet in the 1970s Massine said this represented the intestines through which the Conjuror’s egg magically travels between mouth and foot. The sleeves are set into the side seams from waist and slightly graduated towards the cuff, and the jacket fastens on diagonal from left hip to neck with silver braid frogging and metal buttons. The silk fabric costume is fragile and the left panel has had to be replaced losing its band of yellow. \r\nThe black Chinese-style calf length trousers have asymmetrical wavy bands of Chinese yellow satin.\r\nThe Chinese-style red, black and yellow cotton headdress with long black wool queue or pigtail attached, though bought with the costume and including the Lifar stamp, is not the original, has lost one of its crowns and only evokes that worn by Massine and Woizikowski. 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