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Ballets Russes

September 2022

  • Alice Nikitina and Serge Lifar in the Ballets Russes production of Les Biches by Francis Poulenc.

    Diaghilev’s Empire by Rupert Christiansen review – brilliance of the Ballets Russes

    How the visionary impresario’s revolutionary ballet company took the Paris of Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel by storm

February 2022

  • Nijinska, right, and her brother Nijinsky in L'Apres-midi d'un Faune, 1912.

    Diaghilev and me: discovery reveals Ballets Russes maestro was also a monster

    The dance impresario ‘cruelly’ sabotaged the careers of others in a bid to keep all the glory to himself, according to a new biography

September 2021

  • Naomi Sorkin in Ida Rubinstein - The Final Act - The Playground Theatre - Photos by Gareth McLeod (01)

    Ida Rubinstein: The Final Act review – a passionate dancer’s drama

    The extraordinary life story of the Ballets Russes star is retold with intensity, imagination and balletic flourishes

March 2021

  • Painting of Tamara Karsavina.

    Saved: portrait of the queen of dance who changed the course of ballet

    Donors contribute to buy painting of Tamara Karsavina, co-founder of the London ballet school

October 2017

  • a scene from Marc Rees’ PARADE, presented by National Dance Company Wales.

    The Russian revolution goes up the wall: thrilling new life for Diaghilev's great cubist uprising

  • The Bridge at Hampton Court by Alfred Sisley (1874) appears in Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870–1904).

    Pissarro in Norwood, Monet at the Savoy: what the exiled impressionists saw in London

August 2015

  • The 3 Dancers, choreographed by Didy Veldman.

    Passion, pain and Picasso: the ballet bringing his Three Dancers to life

    The Three Dancers is widely seen as a painting full of hate and violence, inspired by the shootings and suicide that befell a trio of Picasso’s friends. But is it also about the artist’s own turbulent relationship with dance? Now a new ballet is telling its macabre story

April 2015

  • Petrushka, Giants Are Small

    Music blog
    Giants Are Small: how we brought Petrushka to life

    New York’s Giants Are Small have been hailed as ‘the future of the American orchestra’ for their performances mixing film, puppets and classical music. They bring their version of Petrushka to the Barbican for its European premiere

January 2015

  • In addition to her work on the Ballets Russes, Nesta Macdonald focused her attention on Isadora Duncan

    Other lives
    Nesta Macdonald obituary

    Other lives: Meticulous researcher who challenged received wisdom about the history of the Ballets Russes

April 2014

  • A scene from Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. The choreographer has announced it will not be touring Russ

    Dance blog
    An artists' boycott of Russia would simply play into Putin's hands

  • Marc Platt, ballet dancer, who has died aged 100

    Marc Platt obituary

November 2013

  • National Dance Company of Wales at Linbury Studio theatre

    National Dance Company Wales – review

    With its violent relationships, Diaghilev's Les Noces still has the power to disturb, writes Judith Mackrell

July 2013

  • MoveTube: the best dance on the web
    Ballets Russes: the company that changed dance for good

    The works of the Ballets Russes will be continually reworked and appreciated. Here are some of the best, both original and reimagined

May 2013

  • Scenes from Ballet "The Rite of Spring"

    Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring

    Stravinsky's work caused a scandal in 1913 but has since been recognised as one of the 20th century's most important pieces

  • Judith Mackrell

    Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex

    Judith Mackrell
    Judith Mackrell: Niall Ferguson is wrong: writing on Lopokova, Keynes' wife, I found evidence of a warm and loving relationship in which both wanted children
  • Nijinsky in Afternoon of a Faun, c1912.

    Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore – review

    A life of Nijinsky wisely parallels his dancing with his sexual development, writes Peter Conrad

March 2012

  • enb ballet russes

    English National Ballet – review

    While the stage seethes with ideas, Williams has no notion yet how to tell a story, writes Judith Mackrell

  • Beyond Ballets Russes; Blake Diptych – review

    English National Ballet take some risks with their Russian-themed programme, but not all of them come off, writes Luke Jennings

  • English National Ballet at Tate Britain

    English National Ballet comes to Tate Britain – in pictures

    English National Ballet's week-long residency at Tate Britain celebrates Pablo Picasso's collaboration with the Ballets Russes and coincides with the Tate's Picasso & Modern British Art exhibition. The residency culminates in a performance of three specially-devised ballets on 2 March

January 2012

  • Rudi van Dantzig

    Rudi van Dantzig obituary

    Choreographer of socially aware ballets who became a novelist
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