Parade by leonide massine pictures
Léonide Massine instructs a dancer, 'Parade' Royal Ballet, 1974..
Photograph of Leonide Massine in Parade, performed by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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This backstage, posed photograph of Maria Chabelska was one of 4 of the Little American Girl in a collection of 27 glass negatives of the ballet Parade, taken by the photographer Harry Lachman.
Parade choreogrphed by Leonide Massine was first staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in It had a libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Erik Satie, costumes, set and frontcloth designed by Pablo Picasso.
For both Cocteau and Picasso the character of the Little American Girl and therefore the costume, was inspired by early movie stars particularly Mary Pickford and Pearl White.
Her costume was bought from William’s Sportswear Shop, Paris, allegedly the day before the premier of Parade. The outfit consisted of a navy-blue sailor jacket with large collar and short (just above the knee in length) white pleated skirt.
The jacket appears to be fastened by three brass buttons with further decorative buttons on the flaps of the patch-pockets