It was in 1909 that Sergei Diaghilev stunned Paris with the first performances of his Ballets Russes, and today the It was in 1909 that Sergei Diaghilev stunned Paris with the first performances of ...

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 ...

In 1986, when Ballet of Dolls first performed its then-transgressive, cabaret-style of ballet, it appeared artistic director Myron Johnson had successfully turned the old “dancers-as-dolls” trope on ...

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The University of Oklahoma School of Dance was founded in 1988, but the program's roots reach much further back to Ballets Russes, one of the most famous ballet companies of the 20th century. A ...

The nabobs of Paris high society must have thought they were slumming. They'd shown up in full dress at a dingy playhouse to see a group of avant-garde Russian dancers, who themselves were fish out of ...

"Ballets Russes" is much more than a specialty item for dance aficionados. Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller's expertly crafted, years-in-the-making docu takes viewers on an ebullient odyssey from Russia ...

"Ballets Russes" is much more than a specialty item for dance aficionados. Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller's expertly crafted, years-in-the-making docu takes viewers on an ebullient odyssey from Russia ...

Like many athletes, dancers can't strut their stuff into old age. The demands of their discipline are too great. Yet Ballets Russes is a heartening affirmation of the spirit that helped many dancers ...

“It is the nature of dance to exist for but a moment,” drones the narrator at the beginning of Ballets Russes. But it’s the nature of this documentary to drag through two utterly tiring and tedious ...