Ballets Russes The Art Of Costumes Exhibition

Looks at Diaghileu's contributions to the Ballets Russes and provides information on its productions

In May 1909, Sergei Diaghilev astonished the world of dance with his first ballet presentations in Paris that demonstrated an unprecedented combination of vitality and grace, originality, and technical sophistication. This catalogue of over three hundred artworks related to the Saisons Russes between 1909 and 1929 is the official companion to an exhibition in Monte Carlo. The legendary productions are brought to life through stage designs, costumes, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and progra... [Read More]

Leong, Roger

40 designs representing 19 premieres of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which toured from coast to coast, helping develop an enthusiastic new audience for ballet in America.

Publisher, impresario and patron, Sergei Diaghilev was one of the greatest artistic innovators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the first to bring visual artists together to work with composers and choreographers in order to create theatrical works of art for a broad public, and the world-renowned ballets that he produced in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century left a permanent stamp on the world of dance. In Western Europe, Diaghilev is primarily known as ... [Read More]