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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.\nThe costume was completed by a white wig and beard that made the dancer appeared ossified. As Propert said 'there were dozens of white wigs that, for no conceivable reason, were moulded into the contours of the exposed brain.’ \r\nDe Chirico began designing for the stage in 1924 for the Ballets Suedois and continued throughout his career, primarily for dance. Le Bal has been recognised as ‘a vivid example of the Italian Novecento design movement that returned classicism to mainstream taste in the 1920s’. It also echoed Diaghilev’s life-long interest in Italy. De Chirico’s attitude to theatre was that it ‘served the need we feel for fantasy and fiction’. In his costumes for Le Bal he incorporate architectural motifs thus combining static elements with the dancers’ movements and dancers described them as painterly, restrictive and ‘rather awkward’. \nFurther similar costumes are at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, USA and the National Gallery, Australia.","physicalDescription":"Costume for a Male Guest consisting of frock coat the front of which is a terracotta-brown with the edge of an attached green waistcoat showing at the front opening. The back is pale sky-blue extending to the back of the sleeves. White architectural motifs are picked out with black braid on the front and back of the coat, the back also has a cloud between the shoulders above a bold chevron and between white columns on the skirt at the back of the coat is brick-work echoing that on the archaeologist's costume. 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