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 ...

A festival at the University of Oklahoma celebrates the impact of these ballerinas on 20th century ballet, honoring their Native American heritage. By Meryl Cates His performances in both classical ...

The concept of “total work of art” is most often associated with composer Richard Wagner and his legacy, but he was far from the only artist across disciplines who accomplished it. Les Ballets Russes, ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A dance enthusiast has discovered what London's Victoria & Albert Museum said on Monday was the only known film footage of a Diaghilev Ballets Russes dance performance. The silent, ...

But first a bit of background. The electrifying debut of the Ballet Russes in Paris in 1909 undoubtedly changed the course of culture and fashion; the fairy-tale and far-away fantasies on the stage ...

How much do ballet lovers on these shores owe to the Ballets Russes? As surely as Alexander the Great plowed through the known world in his day, those starving Russian emigres rolled across America ...

The title of Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s documentary is a bit misleading: its subject isn’t Diaghilev’s groundbreaking Ballets Russes, companies whose collaborators included Debussy and Picasso ...