On what would have been his 145th birthday, Google celebrates the life and work of Russian visionary Sergei Diaghilev On what would have been his 145th birthday Friday, Google celebrates the life and ...

Born in Novgorod and buried in Venice, Italy, Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929) became famous to the world as the impresario of the Russian opera-and-ballet export drive that turned fashionable Paris ...

NEW YORK -- A hundred years have passed since Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes made its premiere in Paris on May 19, 1909. In honor of this historic debut, which signaled a renaissance in the art of ...

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 The most recent reassessment of the ...

NEW YORK — There is no credit for choreography in the Classic Stage Company production of “Fire and Air,” which is strange because it’s basically a biography of Sergei Diaghilev. You will recall — and ...

The Ballets Russes was a company of Russian dancers in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, run by the legendary impresario Sergei Diaghilev. Diaghilev was the model for the dictatorial ...

Historical geniuses are tricky beasts to dramatize. Last year, Scott Carter’s attempt to revive the corpses of Dickens, Tolstoy, and Thomas Jefferson fell flat at Primary Stages. Now, in the world ...

Douglas Hodge, Marin Mazzie, John Glover and Marsha Mason appear in 'Fire and Air,' Terrence McNally's new play about the relationship between Ballets Russes impresario Sergei Diaghilev and famed ...

Shut away in a Swiss sanatorium is the man the world once knew as the greatest of dancers. For months at a time he speaks no word. He still hears the echo of War guns. His dead, dumb eyes see soldiers ...

On what would have been his 145th birthday Friday, Google celebrates the life and work of Russian visionary Sergei Diaghilev, cultural impresario and creator of the pioneering Ballets Russes, with a ...

The writer nurtured an infatuation with the uncrowned queen of Belle Epoque high society, immortalising her in A la recherche du temps perdu. A Rodin sculpture, a Louis XVI bureau and a portrait by ...