Word: diaghilev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some people say it was not true, but I looked like a rat." Under Diaghilev he found himself as a choreographer...
Westward Eyes. After a summer of trouping. Balanchine managed to crack the big time. In Paris he got an audition with Impresario Sergei Diaghilev, also an emigre, who hired the troupe on the spot...
...company had drawn on the talents of such famed members as Michel (Petroushka) Fokine, Vaslav (Afternoon of a Faun) Nijinsky, Leonide (Boutique Fantasque) Massine, Bronislava (Les Noces) Nijinska. For the most part, in their choreography, they had developed luxuriant numbers flush with gestures, elaborate costumes and scenery. With Diaghilev's blessing. Balanchine launched a one-man revolution of the right: he went back to severe, classic principles. Instead of involved, fairy-tale plots, he shaved his storylines down to wisps of familiar, ancient legends. Thus began his continuing battle to reduce ballet to its fundamentals: the dance itself...
...four years after Balanchine had gone to work with Diaghilev, the master died, and his company, based on no school of its own and without a guiding hand, dissolved almost as if it had never been.* For a while Balanchine wandered, picking up odd jobs in London variety shows ("16 Delightful Balanchine Girls"), staging half a dozen ballets for the crack Danish Royal Ballet, having a whirl at running his own company (called Les Ballets 1933}. But nothing quite worked out as he wanted it to, and he turned his eyes westward again. "I really wanted...
Their few weeks together stretched into a couple of decades during which Misia continued to charm such people as Diaghilev, Clemenceau and Debussy, and Sert won an international reputation as a mural painter, plus a fortune in commissions. All was idyllic until Sert met Roussadana Mdivani, a Georgian princess young enough to be his and Misia's daughter. It was a strange triangle, with Sert torn between Roussadana and Misia. each of whom loved and consoled the other at every turn of Sert's affection. Misia let him have a divorce. "The poor girl was not responsible...