Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

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 ...

Skidmore College musicians and dancers commemorate Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the famous traveling Russian ballet company of the early 20th century, with a program of classic works from its ...

A celebration of dance — live, in art and in film — will be held Jan. 8 at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. The “Art in Motion” event begins at 5:30 p.m., when visitors can view the ...

An array of events are being presented in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art's ambitious "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced With Music" exhibit, which showcases ...

Agnes de Mille was in London in the summer of 1933 when the new Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo came to town. For the young American choreographer, seeing a Leonide Massine ballet became one of the season ...

The nabobs of Paris high society must have thought they were slumming. They'd shown up in full dress at a dingy playhouse to see a group of avant-garde Russian dancers, who themselves were fish out of ...

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 ...

A festival at the University of Oklahoma celebrates the impact of these ballerinas on 20th century ballet, honoring their Native American heritage. By Meryl Cates His performances in both classical ...

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