Ballet russe

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Ballet Russes

From Lynn Garafola's article in the brochure for the exhibit entitled Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels which honors the 100th anniversary of the Ballets Russes and which is on display at the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center thru...

A design for "Queen of the Night"[/caption] Nineteenth century Russia was restless, and so was Léon Bakst. The young man belonged to a new generation of creatives, one ready to turn Realism on its head with one flick of a bejewelled, utterly fabulous wrist. Today, his name is "a byword for excite

Program cover of 1916 Diaghilev's Ballets Russes first and only American tour - cover

I was having a swanky lunch recently on the seventh floor at Bergdorf Goodman with a friend from college, and afterwards I discovered in t...

Tamara Karsavina began her professional career with Russia's Imperial Ballet in 1902, at age 17, and rose quickly through the ranks to become a leading ballerina. She began traveling to Paris in 1910 to dance with the Ballets Russes. Her most famous roles were in the ballets of Michel Fokine, her most famous being the title role in the "Firebird." Tamara Karsavina helped establish England's Royal Ballet and was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Dance. Based on the prologue to “The…

On the evening of May 29, 1913 the Parisian upper class gathered at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees for the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rites of Spring) performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets R…

boris israelevich anisfeld costume design for cадко (sadko)..

Corps De Ballet #1 by Baron