Word: diaghilev
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...years ago the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe arrived in the U. S. to present Russian ballet as it had not been given since the days of Diaghilev and the great Nijinsky. In Manhattan the troupe played in a small side-street theatre. A few devotees went night after night but money was lost. Last season the Monte Carlo Ballet visited go cities, earned nearly a million dollars, more than the Ziegjeld Follies. Last week it opened again in Manhattan, this time in the grand manner, as a thriving, accepted organization. Scene was the Metropolitan Opera House where the Diaghilev company...
...When Nijinsky, Karsavina, Rubinstein danced in the peerless Diaghilev Ballet, it was more often than not to works created by Michel Fokine. Today Fokine runs a dancing school in Manhattan. His dancers, who bolstered a faltering season last summer at the Lewisohn Stadium, were again sent to its rescue this month. They performed old Fokine favorites, introduced some new ballets. By this week, when they were to wind up the engagement, the Fokine dancers had impressed critics as no more than mediocre. There was, however, one exception-22-year-old Paul Haakon (pronounced hawk-on). In Scheherazade...
...ballets which proved most popular on the road were Les Sylphides, Prince Igor and Petrouchka, all inherited from the old Diaghilev company. Most popular male dancers were handsome young David Lichine and the master Massine, who, at 38, is old to be dancing so fleetly. Most popular ballerinas were dark-skinned Tamara Toumanova, who owns the marmoset, and Irina Baronova who can act as well as spin. Both...
Under Rimsky, Stravinsky wrote his first dazzling orchestrations. But it was the late Sergei Diaghilev who established the young composer throughout the world. Diaghilev and his choreographer, Fokine, heard the swirling Fireworks, which Stravinsky wrote as a wedding present for Rimsky's daughter. Fokine told Diaghilev that it made him see flames in the sky. For a shrewd entrepreneur like Diaghilev that was sufficient. In 1910 Stravinsky was commissioned to write The Firebird...
...TIME, Jan. 1). Nearly 25,000 U. S. readers, many of whom had never seen a Russian ballet, caught much of its fascination from Nijinsky, the mad dancer's biography written by his Hungarian wife Romola, who blames her husband's insanity on the late great Serge Diaghilev (TIME, March 19). Last week Arnold L. Haskell, Britain's ablest dance critic, who knew both Diaghilev and Madame Nijinsky, recorded his own ballet enthusiasms.* Dancers in Colonel Vassily de Basil's Monte Carlo Ballet Russe know Author Haskell as a bubbling, bald little man who trails them...