Word: diaghilev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reunited, were the "baby stars" who seven winters ago, when they were in their teens, began making the U. S. ballet-conscious. Then their director was an ex-Cossack colonel named Wassily de Basil, who founded the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe in the great tradition of the late Serge Diaghilev, named his troupe for the little principality where it first danced. Last week, after many complicated schisms in the Russian ballet, the troupe was called the Original Ballet Russe. Colonel de Basil was still its director. But its boss, who hoped to keep it going in Manhattan through the winter...
French and Russian Ballet, then, is a rotted hulk of the great pre-war ballet of Serge Diaghilev. It is too clogged with unnaturalness to have very much meaning today. For one thing, its stories are mostly mythological or fanciful, handled as though in a complete vacuum, with not the slightest trace of anything to link them with real life. The music, too, is defective in that it is addicted to effect and picturization rather than spontaneous expression. But probably what makes old-style ballet so sterile is the fact that this is primarily not a dancing age: that...
...with spectacle. Certain naive ballet companies, too, are experimenting with dances on American themes. This may become a successful genre, and a vital branch of our culture. Until it does, the ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the Original Ballet Russe, and the other remnants of the Diaghilev troupe, remains here on suffrage, kept alive by a demand for spectacle of a highbrow, somewhat snobbish, sort...
Married. Composer Igor Stravinsky, 57, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (whose first wife died in 1939); and Vera de Bossett Sudeikine, onetime dancer with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russe; in Bedford, Mass...
...spring evening in 1913 the intelligentsia of pre-war Paris gathered at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées to see & hear a sensational new ballet. The ballet, put on by famed Russian Impresario Serge Diaghilev, was something to see: Diaghilev's idea of how primitive man got ritually excited, come springtime. The accompanying music, a boisterous, tom-tomming, banshee-wailing symphonic hullabaloo by Music's No. 1 Bad Boy, Igor Stravinsky, had even more oomph than the ballet...