Bakst Stage Design

バクストの舞台美術 / 1909-1914 / Style / Stage Design

Sets and costumes rebuilt as a painter's single picture. Jewel-deep colors laid over one another, with swirling curves and orientalist pattern drawing the dancing body itself into the design.

Combinations of jewel deep color / Pattern laid over pattern in the costumes / Swirling Art Nouveau curves / Orientalist headdresses and loose trousers

Bakst Stage Design — Bakst, stage design for Les Orientales 1910 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Bakst, stage design for Les Orientales 1910 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain ／ Bakst, costume design for Nijinsky 1912 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain ／ Costume design by Bakst — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Bakst Stage Design — Bakst, costume design for Nijinsky 1912 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Bakst, stage design for Les Orientales 1910 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain ／ Bakst, costume design for Nijinsky 1912 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain ／ Costume design by Bakst — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Dictionary entry

Best used for: Setting design and costume first, as the leading element of a production · Making one performance an event remembered through its color
Type: Programme and curtain from the same hand, lettering matched to the sets
Composition: Treat the backdrop as flat pattern and let costume movement supply depth
Material: Saturated dyed fabric, gold and silver, oriental motifs at large scale
Caution: Adding colors and patterns without deciding the contrast between set and costume dissolves the dancer into the backdrop and the movement disappears.
Further study: Léon Bakst / Sergei Diaghilev / its influence on 1920s fashion

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