Every dancer and appreciator of performance art owes a great debt to the Ballet Russe. Without this flamboyant, wandering performing arts company that flourished in the early days of the 20th century, ...

“It is the nature of dance to exist for but a moment,” drones the narrator at the beginning of Ballets Russes. But it’s the nature of this documentary to drag through two utterly tiring and tedious ...

In 1986, when Ballet of Dolls first performed its then-transgressive, cabaret-style of ballet, it appeared artistic director Myron Johnson had successfully turned the old “dancers-as-dolls” trope on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dec. 4, 1945: A small but enthusiastic crowd was on hand at Scranton’s Masonic Temple for a night of dance by the famed Ballet Russe. Under the direction of choreographer Leonide Massine, the Ballet ...

A Pavlova, a Nijinsky, a Picasso! These names, now generic for high artistic achievement, all once worked for a man whose name has also become generic, Diaghilev—the greatest impresario in the history ...

"Ballets Russes" is much more than a specialty item for dance aficionados. Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller's expertly crafted, years-in-the-making docu takes viewers on an ebullient odyssey from Russia ...

Balletomanes are bound to adore Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s lavish documentary Ballets Russes (2005), which recalls the glory days of that legendary emigré dance troupe through rare footage of its ...

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 ...