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It had a libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by ESatie, and costumes and sets designed by Pablo Picasso and choreography by Léonide Massine.\n\nThe Dancer who opens the action was originally called ‘The Manager’ or ‘The Manager in Evening Dress’ but is now generally referred to as the French Manager. He was created by  Léon Woizikowsky Significantly he ‘wears’ a stiff, white-fronted evening shirt and top hat and the trees on the back of his construction evoke leafy Parisian boulevards. In Beaumont’s words, he was ‘a wooden head and body poised on human legs. The head is formed by a horizontal flange-like arrangement of thin sheets of wood on one of which is placed a strip of card, twisted to suggest a moustache. The body resembles a rectangular box at the back of which is fixed a house; the legs are clothed in black breeches and shoes with white woollen stockings stretched over the most preposterous calves. From each shoulder hangs a flattened arm; one serves to support and enormous clay pipe at which the figure puffs contentedly, the other a white cane.’\r\n\r\nPhotographs of any Diaghilev ballets, especially from the post 1914 period are extremely rare, partly because, for all his promotional skills, Diaghilev did not ensure that regular or comprehensive photographic records were made. There are several negatives in this collection which have never been published or are very rarely seen.","physicalDescription":"Glass negative by Lachman showing the French Manager in the ballet <i>Parade</i> seated on a chair.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Lachmann","id":"A30757"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"glass","id":"AAT10797"},{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"}],"techniques":[{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Glass photographic negative","categories":[{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"},{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2010EG2864"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES299970"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Photographic glass plate","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Paris","id":"x29068"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1917","earliest":"1917-01-01","latest":"1917-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"23.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"approximate","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"17.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"approximate","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This is one of a collection of 27 glass negatives of the ballet &lt;i&gt;Parade&lt;/i&gt;, taken by the photographer Lachmann. &lt;i&gt;Parade&lt;/i&gt; was first staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in 1917. The collection of 11 Silver prints and 26 glass plate negatives by Lachmann (then called Lachman) was purchased by the V&amp;A for £5,200 as Lot 233 in the Sotheby action of Photographic Images and Related Material in London 7 May 1993.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Glass negative by Lachman showing the 'French Manager' in Léonide Massine's ballet <i>Parade</i> seated, Diaghilev Ballets Russes, 1917","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["S.5403-2009"],"accessionNumberNum":"5403","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":2009,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-01","recordCreationDate":"2010-02-16","availableToBook":true}}