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THE MUSEUM COLLECTIONS After introducing itself in Gustaf Adolfs Torg, Stockholm, with three big separate exhibitions on the theme of dance, drama and art, the Dance Museum has now opened its first major permanent exhibition. Entitled The Dance Museum Collections, it fills the magnificent old banking hall – an orgy of colour and sensuality amidst the sternly classical architecture. The Museum’s collections are world-famous, illustrating the dance, drama, art and music of different continents and civilisations. Here we encounter the elaborate dramatic art of Asia, African ritual dancing and the thrilling cross-pollination of all manner of art forms in 1920s Europe. African art was to play an important part in 20th century western art, as witness the monumental Creation of the World (La Création du Monde) painted by Fernand Léger for the Ballets Suédois in Paris in the 1920s. Artists represented in the exhibition include Léger, Picabia, de Chirico, Cocteau, Foujita, Dardel and Nerman. The Dance Museum also has one of the world’s foremost collections of original costumes from the Ballets Russes in Paris. A selection is on display, featuring artists like Bakst, Derain, Delaunay, Gontcharova and Matisse.
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