Understanding Bakst through Daphne and Chloe Ballet

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmsd.202412333

Author(s)

Wang Qian

Affiliation(s)

Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie, Poland

Abstract

Russian ballet in the late nineteenth century in the history of Western European art enjoys a great reputation, "Daphnis and Chloe" as a representative of, and by its author Ravel called the dance symphony works. This paper will explain how Leon Bakst, the designer of the stage costumes in the Daphne and Chloe ballet, has gained a reputation in European and world fashion from a musicological and historical-philosophical perspective.

Keywords

Leon Bakst; Daphne and Chloe ballet; Stage Costumes; Neoclassical and Philosophical Theory

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