Scheherazade 1910
Ida Rubinstein as Zobeide 1910
Ida Rubinstein in Scheherazade 1910


Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein dancing
together in Scheherazade 1910
Jpeg by M. Evans from scan of P.D. image

Rubinstein danced the part of Zobeide in Scheherazade with Ballet Russes in 1910. It was choreographered by Michel Fokine with costumes by co-author Léon Bakst.
It was admired at the time for its racy sensuality and sumptuous staging. These days, though, it is rarely performed. It is considered too much of a pantomine and it's then-fashionable Orientalism appears dated.
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Ida Rubinstein in Scheherazade 1910
Jpeg by M. Evans from scan of P.D. image

Léon Baskt's set design for Scheherazade
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Scheherazade
Written by Alexandre Benois
Music
by Rimsky-Korsakov
Choreography by Mikhail Fokine
Costumes and Decor by Léon Baskt
Produced by Serge Diaghilev (and others) at the Paris Opera House
Other Ballet Russes Dancers: Vaslav Nijinsky, Enrico Cecchetti, Alexis Bulgakov, Flore Revailles, Adolf Bolm

This was the second season of Ballet Russes in Paris, and the high point of Ida Rubinstein's artistic career.
In the audience were Count Robert de Montesquiou, Sarah Bernhardt, Pablo Picasso, and Walter Guinness.