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The Modern Body: Picasso and the Ballet Russes
- When
- September 26, 2016
- Where
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Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- Free.
The Menil Collection presents The Modern Body: Picasso and the Ballet Russes.
Through dialogue, video, and live demonstration, Houston Ballet soloist Oliver Halkowich (pictured) and independent critic and journalist Theodore Bale discuss the choreography of the human body in Parade, 1917, and Le Tricorne, 1919.
The two modern ballets have designs by Pablo Picasso and were choreographed by Léonide Massine for the Ballets Russes in Paris.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Picasso The Line on view through January 8, 2017.
