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to the point.(Ballets Russes)(Brief Article)
Byline: John Powers
Spanning seven decades, Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller's wonderful documentary Ballets Russes chronicles the history of the company originally founded by Serge Diaghilev, which not only created modern ballet but pioneered it worldwide, an artistic diaspora that carried Russian dance from Monte Carlo to Montevideo to Tucson, Arizona. Along the way, the Ballet Russe became a star-studded gypsy caravan that fled World War II Europe, stuck its pointed toe in the waters of Hollywood, constantly battled bankruptcy, and endured a great internal ...
- Leonide Massine, legendary Ballets Russes dancer and choreographer who created...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine November 1, 2002 700+ words
Leonide Massine, legendary Ballets Russes dancer and choreographer who created the first symphonic ballets, in which abstract movement paralleled complex patterns in the music, was inducted into The National Museum of Dance's Hall of Fame this past summer.
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...from the de Basil Ballets Russes and Sergey Denham...broader potential. The Ballets Russes phenomenon had its...Bolm, Fokine, and Leonide Massine--to both North...war, the Diaghilev Ballets Russes became a matrix for...
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...Established in 1909, the Ballets Russes made an extraordinary...s death), the Ballets Russes collaborated closely...1880-1942), Leonide Massine (1896-1979...particularly for the Ballets Russes included Maurice...
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...If the saga of the Ballets Russes is of epic proportions...formation of the Ballets Russes. It continues through...dancer-choreographer Leonide Massine broke away from de...and a reunion of Ballets Russes dancers in New Orleans...
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- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Jowitt, Deborah February 1, 2009 700+ words
...Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes. You'd attended...legendary season of the Ballets Russes, we can still sense...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Ballets Russes changed the way people...Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Bronislava Nijinska...