ISMENE BROWN: What object or image would you say most captures for you the spirit of Diaghilev? RUSSELL MALIPHANT: I’ve worked with a lot of photographs of Nijinsky, but also with some of his drawings ...
NEW YORK — There is no credit for choreography in the Classic Stage Company production of “Fire and Air,” which is strange because it’s basically a biography of Sergei Diaghilev. You will recall — and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Marshalled by a retired Cossack colonel, 64 young Russian dancers invaded Manhattan last winter, set up shop with a 50-piece orchestra, crates of colorful scenery, 6,000 costumes, and forthwith ...
OUTSIDE the City Center mosque a line of gentod pickets strolled among the late-comers in evening clothes. I took a leaflet from a pleasant-looking young girl — “It’s shocking . it’s appalling . . .
An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance. By Alice Courtright Lynn Garafola’s “La Nijinska” tells ...
This is FRESH AIR. In 1909, the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev came to Paris with a company he called the Ballet Russe and created a sensation that lasted until Diaghilev's death 20 years later.