La siesta del fauno nijinsky biography

Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky)

Ballet by Vaslav Nijinsky

This article is about the Nijinsky ballet. For musical composition by Claude Debussy, see Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. For other ballets and uses, see Afternoon of a Faun.

The Afternoon of a Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. Nijinsky danced the main part himself. The ballet is set to Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. Both the music and the ballet were inspired by the poem L'Après-midi d'un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé. The costumes, sets and programme illustrations were designed by the painter Léon Bakst.

The style of the 12-minute ballet, in which a young faun meets several nymphs and proceeds to flirt with and chase 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. They often moved across the stage in profile as if on a bas relief. The ballet was presented in bare feet and rejected classical formalism. The work had an overtly erotic subtext beneath its façade of Greek antiquity and ended with a scene of graphic sexual desire. This led to a controversial reception from both audience and critics, and the quality of the ballet was debated widely through multiple news reviews. The piece also led to the dissolution of a partnership between Nijinsky and Michel Fokine, another prominent choreographer for the Ballets Russes, due to the extensive amount of time required to train the dancers in what was then an unconventional style of dance.

L'Après-midi d'un Faune is considered one of the first modern ballets and proved to be as controversial as Nijinsky's Jeux (1913) and Le Sacre du printemps (1913).

Creation

Conception

The ballet was developed as a poss

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  • La siesta de un fauno (ballet)

    La siesta de un fauno es un ballet en un acto con coreografía de Vaslav Nijinski sobre el poema sinfónico de DebussyPreludio a la siesta de un fauno, inspirado en el poema de MallarméL'après-midi d'un faune, y con escenografía y vestuario de Léon Bakst. Fue estrenado en París el 29 de mayo de 1912 durante la temporada de los Ballets Rusos de Serguéi Diáguilev en el Teatro del Châtelet. Nijinski creó el papel del Fauno rodeado de siete ninfas encabezadas por Lydia Nelídova.​

    Libreto

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    En una tarde de verano, un Fauno sestea tocando la flauta y observa indolente desde su atalaya a las ninfas que han salido del bosque a tomar un baño. El Fauno se acerca a las ninfas y estas huyen asustadas. Una de ellas queda rezagada y juguetea con él antes de huir también. El Fauno recoge el velo que la ninfa ha dejado caer y se retira con él a su montículo, lo extiende en el suelo y se echa sobre él.​

    Génesis y recepción

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    El origen de este ballet se sitúa a finales de 1910 y comienzos de 1911, cuando Diáguilev y sus colaboradores discutían nuevas creaciones para la temporada de primavera en París. Se hallaban en preparación dos proyectos de Fokine de estética clasicista, Narcisse y Daphnis et Chloé. Nijinski, que participaba en las discusiones, deseaba por entonces demostrar sus capacidades como coreógrafo y, con su hermana Bronislava, estaba trabajando en un "poema bailado" inspirado en los frisos egipcios y griegos para el que había inventado pasos y movimientos hieráticos y angulares que evitaban la frontalidad.​ Cuando a principios de 1911 los hermanos Nijinski mostraron a Diáguilev el resultado de su trabajo, este dio su aprobación y propuso el Preludio a la siesta de un fauno de Debussy como fondo musical para el ballet. El escenógrafo Léon Bakst subrayó con sus bocetos para el vestuario y la escenografía la estética bucólica clasicista.

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    Original creation of Cayetano Soto for the Compañía Nacional de Danza

    When I received the CND’s commission to revise the classic L’après-midi d’un faune, the first thing that came to mind was the chromatic melody of the flute solo in the overture, together with the word ‘dreamy’ (from an artistic perspective) and a vast vertical garden and the fact that whenever I dream, it is always in black and white. These impulses were my initial guide but, undoubtedly, the structure of the symphonic poem for orchestra, composed by Claude Debussy, and divided into six parts of varying lengths, led me to create the siesta or, more to the point, the dream within the siesta.
    I wanted to imagine I dreamed of the faun and transfer that dream to the stage.
    My creation is devoted to the faun’s sleep; to its siesta before approaching the nymphs. And it is divided into six parts, as in the score.
    During the creation, I wondered which was better: to live the dream or dream the experience lived.
    Finally, I took the liberty of using the score’s rhythm (inspired by Nijinsky’s freedom) to achieve a more artistic physical relationship between one performer and another.

    - Cayetano Soto -

    • Absolute premiere by Compañía Nacional de Danza 2: at Teatros del Canal, Madrid (Spain), July 26th 2019

    CAYETANO SOTO
    Born and based in Barcelona, Cayetano Soto has created works for major companies worldwide. His technical, high-pitched and unpredictable choreography can be seen at international festivals in Europe, USA and Canada.Soto started his dance education in Barcelona at the Institut del Teatre and continued his studies at the Koninklijke Conservatorium in The Hague.
    After receiving his degree in Classical Dance, Soto danced with IT Dansa Barcelona in 1997, before joining Ballet Theater Munich a year later where he created several successful ballets and one of his first signature pieces, Fugaz. Since 2005, Soto has worked as a freelance choreographer and has received commissions

    Category:L'après-midi d'un faune (Ballets Russes)

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