Nutcracker pas de deux

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… 顯示更多

細節

Nutcracker pas de deux
Production: 1962, BBC TV performance with Rosella Hightower
Music: Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Rudolph Nureyev
Design: Possibly William Chappell
Character: The Prince

A tunic of pale blue grosgrain silk embellished with decorative straps and faceted clear rhinestones and purple beads at the neck, shoulder and cuffs, inscribed in blue ink at the waistband Nureyev - given to Margot Fonteyn by Rudolph Nureyev

出版

NUREYEV, Rudolph Autobiography, Watford: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1962, pp.109-110, p.163 (illus.) & p.170 (illus.)

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

It could be regarded as evidence of the closeness of the Nureyev and Fonteyn partnership that they exchanged costumes. Fonteyn gave Nureyev one of her Swan Lake tutu's which was included in the Nureyev Auction, Christie's, Park Avenue, New York, January 12th, 1995 as Lot 64.

Nureyev wrote in his autobiography, that the first opportunity he had to exercise one of his ambitions, to be a choreographer, was in Cannes. He, Rosella Hightower, Erik Bruhn and Sonia Arova formed a small group and organized programmes of their own. ..My own contribution was a new version of the slow movement, the adagio in the famous pas de deux from The Nut-cracker...I worked it out and taught it to Rosella, and later on we performed it on the London TV and in Paris...