If you were really somebody in Paris at the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), you weren't just in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. You were in the car ...

An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance. By Alice Courtright Lynn Garafola’s “La Nijinska” tells ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. 1. In 1909, Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev founds a dance company, Les Ballets Russes, in Paris.

In 1905, the dancers of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg went on strike. Their demands: higher wages, a five-day workweek, training in how to apply theatrical makeup, the right to wear their own ...

If your idea of ballet is a flurry of tutus and toeshoes, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington will expand your vision. "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes" shows the ...

CLINTON – The Museum of Russian Icons will present "Emil Hoppé: Photographs from the Ballets Russes," Nov. 15 through March 8, 2020. The exhibitions pays homage to two men: famed Russian impresario ...

Rare archival footage and colorful interviews chronicle the evolution of the influential early 20th-century ballet company, founded by Sergei Diaghilev. Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine directed this ...

How much do ballet lovers on these shores owe to the Ballets Russes? As surely as Alexander the Great plowed through the known world in his day, those starving Russian emigres rolled across America ...