How much do ballet lovers on these shores owe to the Ballets Russes? As surely as Alexander the Great plowed through the known world in his day, those starving Russian emigres rolled across America ...

"Ballets Russes" is captivating. Filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine -- who first teamed up in 1988 for a documentary about Isadora Duncan -- have crafted a compelling documentary about a ...

Film documentaries long on charm are sometimes short on history. That cannot be said about "Ballets Russes." It captures the heart and spirit of one of the 20th century's most fabled ballet companies, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 21, 2013). "Masters Program in the History of Decorative Arts." In the summer of 1919, the founder of the Ballets Russes, Serge Diaghilev, and the composer ...