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 ...

The movie examines the accomplishments, trials and stars of the Ballets Russes, the renowned company ... interested in the history covered by the film, especially because so many of his 113 ...

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)." ...

Another short film shows Nijinsky's awkward attempts ... if only to enlarge the range of what was considered permissible onstage. The Ballets Russes, and dance audiences, needed the ephemera ...

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 ...

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 ...