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21 June 2011  Just published by Oxford University press, “René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life,” concerns the long forgotten talent and key operative in the ballet world, both in Europe and in the U.S., during the tough decade of the 1930s. The American performances of his Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo that Rene Blum fostered planted important seeds from which American ballet blossomed. [...] 3 February 2011 “Diaghilev did not like the cameras. Indeed, strictly prohibiting the performance of his company were filmed, perhaps for fear that someone, without going to the theater, could see the breakthrough performances of his dancers.” [...] 3 January 2011  An important Ballets Russes costume retrospective at the Australian National Gallery features surrealist Giorgio de Chirico’s original costumes for “Le Bal,” an early Balanchine work to a Boris Kochno libretto. [...] 24 May 2009  To create the dances for this glamorous posse, Diaghilev engaged five choreographers over the course of twenty years. This quintet now occupies a permanent spot in choreography heaven as classical ballet’s A-team: Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Bronslava Nijinska, and George Balanchine [...] | |||
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