During Nutcracker season in California, we were lucky to catch Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage at the LACMA. This exhibition highlighted the principal role that music and dance played in Marc Chagall’s artistic practice, focusing on four productions he designed: the ballets Aleko, set to music by Tchaikovsky (1942), The Firebird by Stravinsky (1945), Daphnis and Chloé by Ravel (1958), and Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute (1967).
A collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition ran at the LACMA from July 2017 to early January 2018 and featured the artist’s vibrant costumes and set designs, alongside a selection of iconic paintings depicting musicians and lyrical scenes, numerous works on paper, and documentary footage of original performances, including rare footage of Massine’s Aleko:
Browse our previous art exhibition photo galleries:
- Diaghilev and the Golden Age of Ballets Russes at the V&A (2010)
- Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement at the Royal Academy of Arts (2011)
