A revival of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” another masterpiece by Balanchine, will grace Program 4 (March 19-27) with its ...

If you were really somebody in Paris at the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), you weren't just in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. You were in the car ...

Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they did and the influence they had, even a 100 years ...

The concept of “total work of art” is most often associated with composer Richard Wagner and his legacy, but he was far from the only artist across disciplines who accomplished it. Les Ballets Russes, ...

We have a report next on revolution, ego, passion, back-stabbing, fierce competition and beauty. It's the story of ballet in the 20th century as told in a new documentary called "Ballets russes." Iris ...

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 ...

The French may have invented ballet, but it was the Russians who brought it to the world. It started in 1909, when an impresario named Sergei Diaghilev put together a dance company he called the ...