VALOIS FEST 
& EXHIBITION 

The VALOIS FEST Organizing Committee would like to express its gratitude to the EAF Museum for its assistance in organizing the VF Archive. The EAF Museum provided a venue and equipment for storing rare artifacts related to the life and work of Ninette de Valois and her contemporaries. The EAF Museum specialists conduct research into the activities of outstanding figures who have had a significant impact on the formation of the world's historical and cultural heritage. The museum's collections contain objects and documents reflecting the processes that took place in the fields of theater, music, opera, ballet, drama and literature, fine arts, cinema, fashion and design in the 19th and 20th centuries.

 

The EAF Museum contains archival materials about such outstanding personalities as Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Marie Rambert, George Balanchine, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, as well as other famous choreographers, ballet dancers and theater figures. Among Valois's contemporaries were outstanding composers: P. I. Tchaikovsky, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, Edward Elgar, Ralph Williams, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and others.

 

Thanks to the specialists of the EAF Museum, the VF Archive presents works by famous artists Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Leon Bakst, Georges Barbier, William Russell Flint, Laura Knight, Walter Ernest Webster, Umberto Brunelleschi and Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Robert Demachy, Georges Barbier, Doris and Anna Zinkeisen, Zinaida Serebryakova, Adolf de Meyer, Adolf Munzer, Ray Kingsley, Rinat Kuramshin, Konstantin Lomykin and others. Some of the artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Leon Bakst, Georges Barbier, collaborated with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Other artists created sets and costumes for various theatres and ballet companies in the UK, France, the USA, Russia and other countries.

 

The EAF Museum continues to purchase and accept as donations objects and documents related to the fields of theater, music, opera, ballet, drama and literature, fine arts, cinema, fashion and design of the 19th and 20th centuries. The VF Archive collections take part in VALOIS FEST exhibitions in the Historical and Cultural Heritage sector, as well as other exhibitions in museums, theatres, galleries and cultural centres.

 

The VALOIS FEST Organising Committee and the EAF Museum express their deep appreciation and gratitude to art collectors, theatre professionals, theatre directors and managers, opera singers and ballet dancers, musicians and other people working in the performing and visual arts for their support and donations to the VF Archives.

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