"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 ...
In conjunction with the National Gallery of Art's exhibit "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes," choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess choreographed a new dance, "Revenant Elegy," inspired by the exhibit.
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 ...
In the early 1900s, the company shed the tutus and toeshoes and took a radically different approach to dance. A new exhibit at the National... Modern Movement: How The Ballets Russes Revolutionized ...
CLINTON – The Museum of Russian Icons will present "Emil Hoppé: Photographs from the Ballets Russes," Nov. 15 through March 8, 2020. The exhibitions pays homage to two men: famed Russian impresario ...
Agnes de Mille was in London in the summer of 1933 when the new Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo came to town. For the young American choreographer, seeing a Leonide Massine ballet became one of the season ...
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 ...
Balletomanes are bound to adore Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s lavish documentary Ballets Russes (2005), which recalls the glory days of that legendary emigré dance troupe through rare footage of its ...
An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance. By Alice Courtright Two dances at Baryshnikov Arts Center ...
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 ...