Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon (1676–1753) was the daughter of Henri Jules de Bourbon and Anne Henriette of Bavaria. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a princesse du sang. Her arranged marriage to the Duc du Maine (legitimized son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan) was not a happy one. However, he did not interfere with her…
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Clare Fitzgerald Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Director, ISAW This lecture, presented at La Maison Française, is held in conjunction with the exhibition Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, on view at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th St., from March 6 to June 2. In English Co-sponsored by the Institute…
An event at the Casa Italiana puts a new spin on traditional dance.
Phantom Kino Ballett is a multidisciplinary performance by Lena Willikens and Sarah Szczesny. Club elements like strobe lights, electronic music and smoke machines are combined with quotations from movie scenes, interview extracts, and spoken word in an audiovisual collage. An experimental music video serves as a medial extension of the cinema experience. The project’s processual character develops through the interaction of costumes, sculptural interpretations…