In 1909, the Russian impresario came to Paris and created a sensation with a company he called the Ballets Russes. A new 22-disc set revisits the music of Diaghilev's legendary ballets. This is FRESH ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A dance enthusiast has discovered what London's Victoria & Albert Museum said on Monday was the only known film footage of a Diaghilev Ballets Russes dance performance. / ...

In the early 1900s, the company shed the tutus and toeshoes and took a radically different approach to dance. A new exhibit at the National... Modern Movement: How The Ballets Russes Revolutionized ...

The concept of “total work of art” is most often associated with composer Richard Wagner and his legacy, but he was far from the only artist across disciplines who accomplished it. Les Ballets Russes, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance. A page from Stravinsky’s autograph ...

1. In 1909, Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev founds a dance company, Les Ballets Russes, in Paris. Performers include Anna Pavlova, George Balanchine, and the high-leaping, mentally fragile star ...

Rare archival footage and colorful interviews chronicle the evolution of the influential early 20th-century ballet company, founded by Sergei Diaghilev. Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine directed this ...

If you were really somebody in Paris at the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), you weren't just in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. You were in the car ...

But first a bit of background. The electrifying debut of the Ballet Russes in Paris in 1909 undoubtedly changed the course of culture and fashion; the fairy-tale and far-away fantasies on the stage ...

Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that has been reprinted for its 80th anniversary. By Philip Gefter An exhibition ...