The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01
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Plans For f6e
] Coming Season

THE FAMOUS RUSSIAN DANG Ell
WILL INTERPRET THE DIFF.
CULT BALLET or "clsELLE,a
WHICH NO ONE HAS AT.
TEMPTED SINCE TAoLIoNra
DAY.
n TtOUNT CENTANINI has brought
from Paris the details of the perl
formances to be given by Mile. Anna
Pavlowa, who will shortly tour America
with M. Michael Mordkin and a sup
porting organization OF about seventy
people. The particularly big feature Oh
the Pavlowa program will be "Thd
4 Arabian Nights" an oriental composite
that will occupy the stage twenty MINI
utes. For this full setting has been
created by Paul Paquereau, the famous
! Partisan scenic artist, whose beautiful
] production of "Orpheus" for the Metrol
! politan Opera company was the tam
/ OF last season and probably the finest
thing OF the kind ever brought I'd
! America.
/ Daguerrean has outclassed all preyi-
ous efforts In creating Persian at
mosphere for ''The Arabian Nights. !"
Selling upon characteristic ideas OF
his great master, Gustave Moreau, he
has spread deep blues, green and or
Ange in daring, dazzling oriental col
or scheme that pervades everything
from the stage carpet to the costumes
worn by the dancers These costumes
pave been made in Paris from designs
prepared by Paquereau from Persian
miniatures belonging to a manuscript
OF Ffrdusi's poems in the National la
brary in Paris. In order to enjoy tha
ininitable colors of the east original
Bokhara silks were used, this because
the coloring process employed by the
srurkestan craftsman is a secret as
tenlously guarded as that Of the wonI
erful Persian tiles. No occidental
manufacturer Of fabrics ever has been
hble to successfully counterfeit the
Bokhara shades.
Five huge drops and two "set'
pieces" are used in the illusion of an
oriental interior Paqcereau has prepar-
I'd as the background for PavIowa'a
piece de resistance.
Mordkin himself created the ballet.
employing the music of I'VE composers
There is a tragic note In the fact thar
Pourgault-Ducoudrc greatest of au.
thorities on oriental music, died while
Negotiations were pending for the use
pr the Persian dances and folk music
from his opera "Thamara," which was
a ~
grand opera during the season of
lSoS. In order to assimilate the spirit
or oriental music Purgault-Ducou-
dray made his home for many years
i'm Teheran, Persia, and elsewhere, in
ARABIA and Asiatic Turkey. In COM
pliance with his wishes three days aft
er his death the PavIowa- Mordkin con-
tract was signed.
Compositions OF Clazounow, Chami-
made, Rimski Korsakoff and the ia
NOUS Lesghinka on Circassian themes
by Rubinstein were also drawn upon
for the big Arabian Nights number.
The Russian artist will also appear
in the ballet "Giselle" Theophile
Gauter, the famous French romantic
poet, gave the world the libretto Of
"Giselle" and Adolph Adam, the IA
Torite composer Of Grisi and Taglioni's
day, the music. Since the period Of
these great dancers this truly wonder
ful ballet has not been successfully
presented until Pavlowa's revival. It
has been attempted by many, who
have met with failure. for nothing short
OF actual genius can interpret this
work, the most taxing and difficult OF
ballots and the climax Of photographic
possibility.
Other advertisements will be Liszt's
Hungarian Rhapsody" the Glazou-
now "Bacchauale Dance" Saint-Saens'
Swan" Pavlowa's famous solo dance,
executed in swan costume and with a
special full stage setting; Pleichmann's
"Adagio," Glaxounow and Chopin ma
Burkas, Rubinstein and Borodine polo
naises, Bohemian dances Of southern
Russia to an accompaniment of Rus
sian popular music Polovsian dances
and the Fire Bird" fantastic dance
to Tschaikowsky's inspiring music.
1t is estimated that Mile. Pavlowa
dances twenty to twenty-five miles ev-
cry night she appears.
Mile. Pavlowa never knew until re-
Gently the extent of her choreographic
activities. While visiting a Paris lapi-
dary's establishment she was induced
to buy tiny golden pedometer, which,
TO her establishment, disclosed the fact
that she danced 1850 miles during her
performances the following week. Now
she uses the recording instrument
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