In Terrence McNally’s Fire and Air, the Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev says, “I invented the 20th century.” He’s not far off. Diaghilev’s Paris-based Ballets Russes was central to the ...

Despite their relatively short history as a company, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes endowed modern ballet with an impressive amount of classic works. In the wake of the Ballet Russes’ centennial year in ...

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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 ...

Film documentaries long on charm are sometimes short on history. That cannot be said about "Ballets Russes." It captures the heart and spirit of one of the 20th century's most fabled ballet companies, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Christopher Williams, a choreographer captivated by the otherworldly, presents the New York premieres of “Les Sylphides” and “Afternoon of a Faun.” By ...

Ballet changed forever when Serge Diaghilev brought a visiting troupe of dancers from St Petersburg to Paris 100 years ago. There are galas and exhibitions and concerts to mark the centenary, ...

This documentary explores Serge Diaghilev's roots, his genius for bringing together avant-garde composers, dancers, painters, and designers, and the legacy of the Ballets Russes. The film includes ...

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 ...

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, ...