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During the season <i>The Polovtsian Dances,</i>a ballet excerpt from Borodin's opera <i>Prince Igor,</i>appear to have been performed three times.\n\r\nSpain was important to Diaghilev's company as it had provided a refuge for them during the 1914-18 War and the King of Spain was a great supporter of the company. Nevertheless they appeared more frequently in Barcelona (five visits between 1917 and 1927) than Madrid. Posters and programme covers for performances in Spain were frequently artists' impressions of the company's most popular productions. <i>The Polovtsian Dances</i> was one such, being danced at a quarter of all Ballets Russes performances, and being the only production presented every year of the company's existence. In his illustration the artist Abelard Delgado captures the energy and colour of the production but creates his own interpretation of the costume designed by Nicholas Roerich for a male warrior.","physicalDescription":"Pictorial and typographic poster dominated by an artist's impression of one of the Polovtsian warriors from the ballet the Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor. Waving his bow the dancer leaps in a brightly coloured costume. 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