it was here that he met Sergei Diaghilev and joined the groundbreaking Ballet Russes as a choreographer. He changed his name from Balanchivadze to Balanchine at Diaghilev’s urging and is widely ...

Dance historians often note that George Balanchine adored women. Sure: so did Henry VIII. The Russian-American choreographer too was much married, and his creative leaps were often spurred by a ...

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Members of the MSU Ballet Club dance at the Snyder-Phillips RCAH theater on April 12, 2025. The spring show, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Showcase,” included a variety of performances and ...

For the dancers, production staff, and support crew of the State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine, staging "The Sleeping Beauty" in El Paso proves that the show must go on. Amid the backdrop of the ...

Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 This ballet, choreographed by Leonide Massine, was composed for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and premiered in May 1917. Satie had never composed ballet music before ...

Chaplin didn’t want it. Neither did Serge Diaghilev, the impresario overseeing the wildly popular Ballet Russes in 1920s Paris. Choreographer Jean Cocteau, who had pitched “Le Boeuf sur le ...

To anyone who is interested in the ‘Bloomsbury Group’ of intellectuals and writers who coalesced around Leonard and Virginia Woolf in the first half of the 20th century, and named for the area ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

He also haunted the auction house circuit himself, once securing a large cache of costumes from the Ballet Russes from Sotheby’s that he sold on to his clientele (which included Keith Richards, Anita ...

His professional ballet career was launched when he joined the Colonel de Basil Original Ballet Russe company. In the late 1940s, when George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein formed the New York ...

Balanchine created Prodigal Son in 1929 for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes to music by Sergei Prokofiev. It’s based on the biblical parable of sin and redemption. A young man rebels against his father, ...