Word: diaghilev
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...sacrificial dance in accordance with the spirit of the whole production-jerking, stamping, lunging in the manner which seems to some beholders insane, to others sublime. Many seeing and hearing understood for the first time why the Paris production, put on by the late great Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev in 1913, was greeted by a riot, the audience shouting so that the dancers, unable to hear the music, continued only by watching the master's beat in the wings. Some even reacted like the Londoner who said it was a "threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions . . . [standing...
...premiére danseuse of the Bolm Ballet Intime, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue; she danced with the Chicago Allied Arts productions in Chicago (a defunct organization then dedicated to modern ballet); for a summer in Europe as the only U. S. citizen ever with the Diaghilev Russian Ballet. She is the wife of Thomas Hart Fisher, son of Taft-time Secretary of the Interior Walter Lowrie Fisher, a lawyer in the Chicago firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. During the summers she has been premiere danseuse and ballet mistress at Louis Eckstein's Ravinia Opera...
Died. Serge Diaghilev, onetime ballet master of the Russian Imperial Court, introducer of Russian ballet to the U. S.. developer of famed Dancers Nijinsky. Lydia Lopokova, Anna Pavlova; in Venice...
...shown them a way of becoming successful. Returned to St. Petersburg from Paris he wanted to found a school. He hobnobbed with intellectuals; joined societies, shouted out his art theories, got an audience. He became first president of the first Russian art review Mir Iskusstva (Artistic World), which Serge Diaghilev edited. He designed the scenery for Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, for Stanislavsky's production of Peer Gynt, for Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. For this last one he also wrote the libretto. Then came the Russian revolutions. His St. Petersburg became Petrograd, Leningrad. He hustled...