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VRA Core 4 Example 44: Ballet (1912 production)

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        <agentSet>
            <display>Bronislava Nijinska (Russian dancer, 1891-1972); Claude Debussy (French composer, 1862-1918); Dydia Nelidova (Russian dancer, active ca. 1910-1913); Léon Bakst (Russian scenographer, 1866-1924); Pierre Monteux (French conductor, 1875-1964); Serge Diaghilev (Russian impresario, 1872-1929); Waslaw Nijinsky (Russian choreographer, ca. 1890-1950); Waslaw Nijinsky (Russian dancer, ca. 1890-1950)</display>
            <notes/>
            <agent>
                <name vocab="ULAN" refid="500009524" type="personal">Bakst, Léon</name>
                <dates type="life">
                    <earliestDate>1866</earliestDate>
                    <latestDate>1924</latestDate>
                </dates>
                <culture>Russian</culture>
                <role>scenographer</role>
            </agent>
            <agent>
                <name vocab="ULAN" refid="500078791" type="personal">Nijinsky, Waslaw</name>
                <dates type="life">
                    <earliestDate>1890</earliestDate>
                    <latestDate>1950</latestDate>
                </dates>
                <culture>Russian</culture>
                <role>choreographer</role>
            </agent>
            <agent>
                <name vocab="ULAN" refid="500335877" type="personal">Debussy, Claude</name>
                <dates type="life">
                    <earliestDate>1862</earliestDate>
                    <latestDate>1918</latestDate>
                </dates>
                <culture>French</culture>
                <role>composer</role>
            </agent>
            <agent>
                <name vocab="ULAN" refid="500078133" type="personal">Diaghilev, Serge</name>
                <dates type="life">
                    <earliestDate>1872</earliestDate>
                    <latestDate>1929</latestDate>
                </dates>
                <culture>Russian</culture>
                <role>impresario</role>
            </agent>
            <agent>
                <name vocab="ULAN" refid="500078791" type="personal">Nijinsky, Waslaw</name>
                <dates type="life">
                    <earliestDate>1890</earliestDate>
                    <latestDate>1950</latestDate>
                </dates>
                <culture>Russian</culture>
                <role vocab="AAT" refid="300025653" extent="Faun (character)">dancer</role>
            </agent>
            <agent>
                <name vocab="ULAN" refid="500090868" type="personal">Nijinska, Bronislava</name>
                <dates type="life">
                    <earliestDate>1891</earliestDate>
                    <latestDate>1972</latestDate>
                </dates>
                <culture>Russian</culture>
                <role vocab="AAT" refid="300025653" extent="Nymph (character)">dancer</role>
            </agent>
            <agent>
                <name vocab="LCNAF" refid="n 81144517 " type="personal">Monteux, Pierre</name>
                <dates type="life">
                    <earliestDate>1875</earliestDate>
                    <latestDate>1964</latestDate>
                </dates>
                <culture>French</culture>
                <role>conductor</role>
            </agent>
            <agent>
                <name vocab="other" refid="FRBNF14851822" type="personal">Nelidova, Dydia</name>
                <dates type="activity">
                    <earliestDate>1910</earliestDate>
                    <latestDate>1913</latestDate>
                </dates>
                <culture>Russian</culture>
                <role vocab="AAT" refid="300025653" extent="Grand Nymph (character)">dancer</role>
            </agent>
        </agentSet>
        <culturalContextSet>
            <culturalContext>French</culturalContext>
            <culturalContext>Russian</culturalContext>
        </culturalContextSet>
        <dateSet>
            <display>1912 (performance); Spring 1912-Spring 1913 (inclusive)</display>
            <notes>premiered on 29 May 1912</notes>
            <date type="performance">
                <earliestDate>1912</earliestDate>
                <latestDate>1912</latestDate>
            </date>
            <date type="inclusive">
                <earliestDate>1912</earliestDate>
                <latestDate>1913</latestDate>
            </date>
        </dateSet>
        <descriptionSet>
            <display>Jean Cocteau helped to explain the Mallarmé poem (Nijinsky spoke little French) and with developing a scenario for the ballet. The style of the ballet, in which a young faun meets several nymphs, flirts with them and chases them, was deliberately archaic. In the original scenography designed by Léon Bakst, the dancers were presented as part of a large tableau, a staging reminiscent of an ancient Greek vase painting. The music by Debussy already existed in a fully orchestrated form. The ballet has roles for seven dancers, the Faun and six Nymphs. Due to its hostile reception the ballet was only in the repertoire for a few years before being forgotten and assumed lost.</display>
            <description source="Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/ (accessed 8/18/2013)">Jean Cocteau helped to explain the Mallarmé poem (Nijinsky spoke little French) and with developing a scenario for the ballet. The style of the ballet, in which a young faun meets several nymphs, flirts with them and chases them, was deliberately archaic. In the original scenography designed by Léon Bakst, the dancers were presented as part of a large tableau, a staging reminiscent of an ancient Greek vase painting. The music by Debussy already existed in a fully orchestrated form. The ballet has roles for seven dancers, the Faun and six Nymphs. Due to its hostile reception the ballet was only in the repertoire for a few years before being forgotten and assumed lost.</description>
        </descriptionSet>
        <locationSet>
            <display>Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris, Île-de-France, France)</display>
            <notes>Premiere performance; 2 rue Edouard Colonne, Place du Châtelet</notes>
            <location type="performance">
                <name type="geographic" vocab="other" refid="" extent="building">Théâtre du Châtelet</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7008038" extent="inhabited place">Paris</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7002883" extent="region">Île-de-France</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="1000070" extent="nation">France</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="1000003" extent="continent">Europe</name>
            </location>
        </locationSet>
        <measurementsSet>
            <display>12 min (running time)</display>
            <notes/>
            <measurements type="runningTime" unit="min">12</measurements>
        </measurementsSet>
        <sourceSet>
            <display>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</display>
            <source>
                <name>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</name>
            </source>
        </sourceSet>
        <stylePeriodSet>
            <display>Symbolist; Twentieth century</display>
            <stylePeriod vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85139020">Twentieth century</stylePeriod>
            <stylePeriod vocab="AAT" refid="300021514">Symbolist</stylePeriod>
        </stylePeriodSet>
        <subjectSet>
            <display>allegorical; mythology (Classical); Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Pre´lude a` l’apre`s-midi d’un faune; Mallarme´, Ste´phane, 1842-1898. Apre`s-midi d’un faune</display>
            <notes/>
            <subject>
                <term type="descriptiveTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="n 84046737">Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Pre´lude a` l’apre`s-midi d’un faune</term>
            </subject>
            <subject>
                <term type="descriptiveTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="no 89019415">Mallarme´, Ste´phane, 1842-1898. Apre`s-midi d’un faune</term>
            </subject>
        </subjectSet>
        <techniqueSet>
            <display>choreography</display>
            <notes/>
            <technique vocab="AAT" refid="300255715">choreography</technique>
        </techniqueSet>
        <titleSet>
            <display>Afternoon of a Faun [Nijinsky ballet]</display>
            <title type="descriptive" pref="true" xml:lang="en">Afternoon of a Faun [Nijinsky ballet]</title>
            <title type="cited" pref="false" xml:lang="fr">L'après-midi d'un faune</title>
            <title type="translated" pref="false" xml:lang="en">The Afternoon of a Faun</title>
        </titleSet>
        <worktypeSet>
            <display>performing arts; dance; ballet</display>
            <worktype vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85011275">ballet</worktype>
        </worktypeSet>
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