The Ballet Parade: avant-garde's BIGGEST GAMBLE
Channel: Simon Mas
Date: 2023-04-08

1917. Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso, and Léonide Massine team up to make history with their ballet, Parade. Watch this video to discover the story of how this masterpiece was created and put on scene by the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Why was it such a scandal? What made it special? And why is it still interesting, today?


***CHAPTERS***
00:00 Introduction
01:02 Jean Cocteau's idea
03:54 Erik Satie
06:09 Pablo Picasso
08:15 Parade shapes up
11:27 Mounting the scandal
12:57 "The biggest battle of the war"
15:17 Conclusions

#ballet #pablopicasso #balletmusic

Thank you to Pixabay for the stock videos and sound effects. I also took some footage from the following sources:

"17th Century Dance"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1s1FQfiKc

"America Goes Over (Part IV)"
https://archive.org/details/AmericaG1918_4

"An Authentic Cake Walk"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD3Ybme_cdc

"Boy selling newspapers in 1950"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5bJ_BMq1Qs

“Erik Satie-Trois morceaux en forme de poire - Duo pianistico Giovanni Carmassi Giuseppe Fricelli”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V5tMxkvP0s

"Le Sacre du printemps / The Rite of Spring - Ballets Russes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOZmlYgYzG4


***WATCH PARADE (until it’s removed!)***
Part 1: https://youtu.be/QVkXO071f5I
Part 2: https://youtu.be/BFU3QUCQ9wE


***SOURCES***
"Erik Satie | History's Weirdest and Most Eccentric Musician". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_wuzlzhXKs

"Jean Cocteau".
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-cocteau

"L’histoire de «Parade» de Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie et Pablo Picasso - Quel scandale!".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szVOwmSeylE

"Pablo Picasso Biography".
https://www.pablopicasso.org/picasso-biography.jsp

"Parade: Erik Satie Cocteau Picasso Diaghilev".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WATQDqjAOUc

"Parade | Erik Satie & Pablo Picasso's Avant-Garde Masterpiece". 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lx1RhTemc

"Part 8: Parade (1917) | Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Portrait of a Revolution".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXcH368KWRM

“The Artistic Collaboration Resulting In The Creation Of The Ballet Parade”. Master thesis by Elizabeth Kattner (Las Vegas, NV: Department of Dance And Music, University of Nevada, 1997)
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4328&context=rtds

"The Savage Parade - from Satie, Cocteau, and Picasso to the Britten of Les Illuminations and beyond." Article by David Drew, in Tempo, New Series, No. 217, pp. 7-21 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Wikipedia: Erik Satie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie

Wikipedia: Parade (ballet). https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade_(ballet)