Some search for battle, others are born into it ...

In Terrence McNally’s Fire and Air, the Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev says, “I invented the 20th century.” He’s not far off. Diaghilev’s Paris-based Ballets Russes was central to the ...

Film documentaries long on charm are sometimes short on history. That cannot be said about "Ballets Russes." It captures the heart and spirit of one of the 20th century's most fabled ballet companies, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance. A page from Stravinsky’s autograph ...

Ballet changed forever when Serge Diaghilev brought a visiting troupe of dancers from St Petersburg to Paris 100 years ago. There are galas and exhibitions and concerts to mark the centenary, ...

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 ...