Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...
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 ...
Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that has been reprinted for its 80th anniversary. By Philip Gefter An exhibition ...
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, ...
The French may have invented ballet, but it was the Russians who brought it to the world. It started in 1909, when an impresario named Sergei Diaghilev put together a dance company he called the ...
The most recent reassessment of the belle-epoque Russian impresario distills his life down to its aromatic essence. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...
"Ballets Russes" is captivating. Filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine -- who first teamed up in 1988 for a documentary about Isadora Duncan -- have crafted a compelling documentary about a ...
“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 ...
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