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The Ballets Russes, in existence from 1909 to 1929, heraled modernism in ballet. The company's infamous impresario, Serge Diaghilev, had an uncommon facility for recognizing talent and fostering successful collaborations. He brought together innovative artists, dancers, composers, and choreographers in groundbreaking productions such as L'Apr es-Midi d'un Faune . Fokine, Nijinsky, Picasso, Stravinsky, Massine, Bakst, and Balanchine were just a few of the key players in the company's history. Garafola's approach to dance history is expansive, taking in the cultural and artistic influences and economic realities, and applying newer methodologies. Scholarly, yet extremely readable, this is highly recommended for most libraries, even those owning Richard Buckle's Diaghilev (LJ 10/1/79).
- Joan Stahl, Enoch Pratt Free Lib., Baltimore
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction of impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev (1872–1929), the Ballets Russes radically transformed the nature of ballet—its subject matter, movement idiom, choreographic style, stage space, music, scenic design, costume, even the dancer's physical appearance. From 1909 to 1929, it nurtured some of the greatest choreographers in dance history—Fokine, Nijinsky, Massine, and Balanchine—and created such classics as Les Sylphides, Firebird, Petrouchka, L'Après-midi d'un Faune, Les Noces, and Apollo. Diaghilev brought together some of the leading artists of his time, including composers Stravinsky, Debussy, and Prokofiev; artists Picasso, Braque, and Matisse, and poets Hoffmansthal and Cocteau. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes is the most authoritative history of the company ever written and the first to examine it as a totality—its art, enterprise, and audience. Combining social and cultural history with illuminating discussions of dance, drama, music, art, economics, and public reception, Lynn Garafola paints an extraordinary portrait of the company that shaped ballet into what it is today.

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ON JANUARY 9, 1905, striking workers from the outlying districts of St. Petersburg converged on the Winter Palace with a petition beg the Tsar, "in the name of all the laboring class of Russia " to end the war with Japan and "eliminate the tyranny of capital over labor " Read the first page
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underwriting modernism, ballet modernism, retrospective classicism, lifestyle modernism, saison russe, prewar seasons, private opera company, merchant patronage, patronage committee, futurist performance, principal dancers, additional costumes, producing organization, principal singers, ballet audience, new ballet, répétition générale, charity performance, period modernism, merchant patrons, des fantômes, ballet stage, classical dancing, many ballets, sets and costumes
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Ballets Russes, Monte Carlo, Covent Garden, Les Noces, Paris Opéra, Boris Godunov, Les Biches, New York, Ballets Suédois, Les Fâcheux, Drury Lane, Les Sylphides, Dancing Times, Les Matelots, Lydia Lopokova, Prince Igor, Bronislava Nijinska, Ida Rubinstein, Imperial Ballet, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell, Ivan the Terrible, Les Six, Misia Sert, Roger Fry
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