Her most famous persona is that of Eleanora Antinova, the tragically overlooked black ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Appearing as Antinova in scripted and non-scripted performances ...

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 ...

Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes in 1909, hand-picking Nijinsky to tour with the new company. In 1911, Nijinsky had an argument with the Imperial Ballet over a costume and was dismissed, becoming ...

The innovative compositions of Sergai Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe, now over a hundred years ago, explored unique opportunities to integrate art with ballet. In 1917, Picasso’s Cubist paintings were ...

A new podcast on the subject features interviews with dancers, living and deceased, who learned from the likes of Sergei Diaghilev and one of the star ballerinas of his Ballets Russes, Lydia Lopokova.

Linda Jackson chats with Karen Gibbons and Anna Orzulak of Fort Wayne Ballet to discuss their “Ballet Russe Reimagined” series. To learn more about the show or to purchase tickets, visit Ballet Russe ...

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 ...

The evocative name Ballets Russes is generally associated with the company the impresario Serge Diaghilev created and managed between 1909 and 1929. Much has been written about its transformative ...

Not staged by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in more than 20 years, his final work for the Ballets Russes tells the well-known New Testament story of the boy who leaves home with everything, is ...

with the ballet scenes performed by members of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The choreography was the work of a young George Balanchine, his first project for the company. “L’Enfant et les ...

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 ...