Which Cubist artist designed the sets for the 1917 ballet 'Parade'?

Pablo Picasso designed the sets for the 1917 ballet “Parade.”

The production was created for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, with music by Erik Satie, a scenario by Jean Cocteau, and choreography by Léonide Massine. Picasso designed both the scenery and costumes, extending Cubist ideas into theater and performance.

Picasso also designed the curtain, depicting performers gathered at a fairground meal. The Italian Futurist Giacomo Balla assisted with the curtain and other design work, but Picasso was the principal designer credited with the ballet’s sets and costumes.

“Parade” premiered in Paris on May 18, 1917, and caused controversy partly because Picasso’s Cubist stage designs and the ballet’s popular-entertainment subject matter challenged conventional ideas of elite ballet. The composer, choreographer, and designer are distinct roles: Satie wrote the music, Massine choreographed, and Picasso designed the visual production.