who filmed Ballets Russes performances with a hand-wound 16mm, film camera beginning in the early 1930s. Watching those images juxtaposed against Geller and Goldfine’s footage makes for the most ...

BEFORE the Royal Ballet was royal, before the Kirov and the Bolshoi ever toured outside the Soviet bloc, before American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet were more than fledgling projects ...

"Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes" shows the revolutionary impact ... a flat curtain conceived by Pablo Picasso, and a film of the Russian dance company's most famous — and controversial ...

With introduction and post-film discussion by Anna Winestein, executive director of the Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership. May 31 at 3:45 p.m. "When Art Danced With Music (and What It Wore)." ...

But after the turn of the century, ballet (like film) “crucially scored over opera.” The Ballets Russes would come to represent “a new form of sensuality, challenging conventional ...

A dance enthusiast has discovered what London's Victoria & Albert Museum said on Monday was the only known film footage of a Diaghilev Ballets Russes dance performance. / Source: Reuters ...

The Ballets Russes also helped shape the 20th-century ... divisive work ended up being the centerpiece of a Disney film (“Fantasia”) — the quintessential mass-market medium.

They also competed for the allegiances of dancers and audiences, a struggle that gives this film’s historical narrative an air of show business intrigue. And “Ballets Russes” does tell a ...

Ballets Russes, a classical, elegiac film directed with a choreographer’s eye by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, lets some of those dancers, now specimens of elegant aging (a few have since died ...

In New York, Lynn Garafola, probably the country’s leading expert on the Ballets Russes, has curated a captivating ... written material and film clips—enough to remind us of the range of ...