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Ida
Rubinstein
1883 — 1960
even when no one believed
Sex symbol of the Modern era
She believed in herself
Rubin
stein
The Jewish in the Russian Empire
retired soldiers.
There is no design withouIda Rubinstein was born into a rich family of sugar growers and bankers in Kharkov. Unfortunately, Ida was orphaned early and she had to move to St.Petersburg discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
Eviction of the Jews in the Russian Empire. Illustrated London News
merchants of the first guild,
people with higher education,
Ida was Jewish. The Russian Empire unfairly restricted Jews in many respects. The laws of that time forbade living outside the settlement zone. But there were exceptions:
Ida's family belonged to the first category and had the opportunity to live in the capital.
“Ida has no talent”
The teacher gives a verdict:
Ida received an excellent education in St.Petersburg, and most importantly, a dance teacher was hired for her. Ida trained hard to learn how to dance. Despite the criticism of her family and teacher she went to Paris to continue her studies.
and put her in a psychiatric clinic
Sketch for the play "Salome" Lev Bakst — illustrator and designer.
"There is something mysterious about her to the point of cold, to the point of chills. And something too spicy, too refined, too decadent"
Ida marries her brother
The relatives decide that
Ida has gone mad,
Ida dreamt of playing "Salome". Inspired by the idea of the future dance, she accidentally showed a sketch of Salome’s costume to her cousin and her husband.
Alexander Benoit
When Ida returned from the clinic, she decided to marry her cousin in order to escape from the shackles of the relatives. Immediately after the honeymoon, Ida left her husband. She freed herself.
Sexuality and recognition
Konstantin Stanislavsky
"The Dance of the Seven Veils" for Rubinstein’s 1908 production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. After the play was banned, Rubinstein performed the dance alone as a concert number, scandalizing Tout-Petersburg by shedding everything but a brassière and a skirt of beads. The very respectability of her family, which now included a husband, only added to her notoriety.
Ida Rubinstein was the first to bring such blatant eroticism into ballet. The critics were delighted. The next morning Ida woke up famous.
"I have not seen anyone more naked and so talentlessly naked!"
Russian ballet and Ida
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as Sergei Diaghilev was delighted with Ida. Thanks to Salome, she got the role of Cleopatra in Diaghilev’s Russian Seasons.
Sketches and decorations created by Lev Bakst
Her face is in all the newspapers
For Ida Rubinstein Alexander Benois and Lev Bakst created the libretto of ballet Scheherazade and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed the music.
where the excited heroes surround Zobeida, exuding erotic intoxication
The culmination
of the performance
is an orgy scene,
Sketches and decorations created by Lev Bakst
In the Downton Abbey series, the count’s daughter, Sybil, ordered translucent trousers for her ball. This shows the influence of Rubinstein, Bakst and Diaghilev on the fashion of that time, which is reflected in the memories in the current cinema.
Alexander Mgebrov
"she came daily to the theater, silently left the luxury coach in a completely fantastic and luxurious robes, his face literally plastered, which were drawn as arrows, jet black eyebrows, eyelashes and the same crimson as coral lips"
Love triangle and solo career
Meanwhile, the audience was discussing not so much the play as the novel by the author of the production of the poet Gabriele d’Annunzio, artist Romaine Brooks and Ida Rubinstein, who joined them.
Ida left Diaghilev and began a solo career. She attracted the most famous personalities for the production of The Mystery of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. This was both a triumph for it`s stylized modernism and a scandal; the Archbishop of Paris prohibited Catholics from attending because St. Sebastian was being played by a woman and a Jew.
Ida was bisexual.
love Triangle lasted until 1915
The Gabriele—Ida—Romaine
but modest care
Bright life,
There are only two letters on her tombstone I.R.
In 1940, she left France during the German invasion, and made her way to England via Algeria and Morocco. There she helped wounded Free French soldiers until 1944. Walter Guinness (later Lord Moyne), her long-term lover and sponsor, remained supportive.
She returned to France after the war, living finally at Les Olivades in Vence. Rubinstein lived the final 10 years of her life in relative quiet. She died in 1960 in Vence, France, and is buried nearby.
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