Exhibition "Pierre and the Sylphs"

About exhibition

The exhibition is based on the personal archive of Pierre Lacotte, donated to the St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music by his widow Ghislaine Thesmar and now presented to the public for the first time. Pierre Lacotte entered the history of 20th-century ballet as a choreographer-archaeologist of historical ballets. In 1971 he reconstructed Filippo Taglioni's legendary ballet "La Sylphide", which made Marie Taglioni a public idol. Ghislaine Thesmar, who embodied the role of the Sylph 140 years later, assumed her place as the foremost Sylph of the 20th century. The exhibition features artworks, engravings, lithographs, photographs, posters, playbills, documents, and memorial items from Lacotte's collection, as well as from the holdings of the St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music, the Bolshoi Theatre, and the Hermitage.