{"id":749,"date":"2020-04-29T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/?p=749"},"modified":"2020-04-29T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:01:14","slug":"ida-rubinstein-the-woman-the-myth-the-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/2020\/04\/29\/ida-rubinstein-the-woman-the-myth-the-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Ida Rubinstein: the woman, the myth, the legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of things were going on the night of November 2, 1928. Verdi\u2019s \u201cLa Traviata\u201d was being performed at the Met in New York City, Henry Cowell programmed Ive\u2019s first violin sonata on a New Music Society concert in San Francisco, and the opera house in Paris was performing a new work by Stravinsky called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Le Baiser de la f\u00e9e<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Meaning \u201cThe Fairy\u2019s Kiss,\u201d this one-act ballet is comprised up of four movements:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sinfonia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Danses suisses<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scherzo (Au moulin)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pas de deux<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adagio<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Variation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coda<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-752 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2020\/04\/220px-Ida_Rubinstein_1912.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2020\/04\/220px-Ida_Rubinstein_1912.jpg 220w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2020\/04\/220px-Ida_Rubinstein_1912-111x150.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I\u2019ve been researching this work, a name kept popping up: Ida Rubinstein. This beautiful, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">remarkable, intelligent woman was also a badass. Born into a wealthy Russian family, Rubinstein started her career as an actress, dancing in \u201cindecent garb\u201d. Her brother-in-law was so appalled that he literally had her committed to an insane asylum to save the family\u2019s honor (her family back in Russia heard the news and quickly got her out). After this fiasco, she married her first cousin in order to have a little more freedom. By the age of 26 she was performing the title role of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cleopatra <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">at the Paris ballet in 1909. In 1911, Rubenstein left the Paris ballet to start her <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">own dance company <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(YESS female entrepreneurs!). Rubinstein was bisexual, and in 1911 she began a three-year affair with the painter Romaine Brooks, who created several striking portraits, including one of the dancer as a nude model for Venus. Rubinstein actually caught the eye of several artists, and was a muse for sculptors, painters, and costume designers. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She went on to work with Debussy, starred in several hipster silent films, and started working with her awesome female friend Bronislava Nijinska. Together, they funded and choreographed a little ballet of Stravinsky\u2019s called<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Le Baiser de la f\u00e9e <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in 1928<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The rest is history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crane, Debra &amp; Mackrell, Judith. The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imslp.org\/wiki\/List_of_works_by_Igor_Stravinsky\">https:\/\/imslp.org\/wiki\/List_of_works_by_Igor_Stravinsky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of things were going on the night of November 2, 1928. Verdi\u2019s \u201cLa Traviata\u201d was being performed at the Met in New York City, Henry Cowell programmed Ive\u2019s first violin sonata on a New Music Society concert in San Francisco, and the opera house in Paris was performing a new work by Stravinsky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}