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“Astonish me!” theater producer Serge Diaghilev would sometimes challenge his collaborators at the Ballets Russes. And composers, stage designers, choreographers and dancers very often did just that.

The world glory of the Russian ballet started with these performances by Serge Diaghilev’s dancers. At the beginning of the 20th century, impresario Serge Diaghilev organized regular tours of Russian ...

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In May 1909, Paris was buzzing with stories about a company of young Russian dancers who had just hit town. There was Ida Rubinstein, parading around with a panther on a lead and drinking champagne ...

In August 21 1929 a funeral barge set off from the Grand Hotel on the Lido for the little island of San Michele, where the city of Venice has buried its dead since the beginning of the 19th century.

The Rite of Spring In 1910, Igor Stravinsky began writing a work to be called The Sacrifice. This was the core of the towering orchestral masterpiece Le Sacre du Printemps presented in Paris at the ...

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 ...