The famous Ballets Russes took Europe and the U.S. by storm during the early 20th century. It was the brainchild of one man, Sergei Diaghilev, who surprisingly wasn't a talented artist ...
These dancers are redolent of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes and the 1920s, explains Will Farmer. This piece was made by a German firm called Aelteste Volkstedter, and it carries the complex factory ...
London audiences will have a mouthwatering encounter with a Modern master whose impact on contemporary art has been enormous.
Diaghilev, the famous ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, which thundered throughout all of Europe, falls in love with Niżyński in the most direct sense of the word. Their partnership ...
Presented by Peter Ustinov, this episode focuses on Diaghilev’s early life and the first seasons of his legendary ballet company Ballets Russes from 1909 until the outbreak of war in 1914.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Ballets Russes Sadlers Wells commissioned ... work each honouring the legacy of impresario Sergei Diaghilev IN THE SPIRIT OF DIAGHILEV features Sidi ...
Elizabeth Jane Howard was born in 1923. Her father was a timber merchant and her mother had been a dancer with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. She was always known as Jane. Elizabeth Jane Howard as ...
The Ballets Russes and the Visual Cultures of Interwar Paris*, which analyzes set and costume designs by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, and Giorgio de Chirico for Serge Diaghilev’s ...
The New Jersey Symphony offered audiences new music this weekend — and new dance. Collaborating with Jersey City-based group Nimbus Dance, the orchestra presented concerts with music from two living ...