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 ...
"They had done the three big ballets, but Diaghilev had to keep making money," explains Grover Wilkins III, artistic director of Orchestra of New Spain, which with Avant Chamber Ballet is producing ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that has been reprinted for its 80th anniversary. Credit.
How did Nijinsky, one of the greatest dancers of all time, with reports of astonishing elevation, amazing, floating jumps, how did he get in the air when wearing a costume made out of silk, satin, ...
Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that has been reprinted for its 80th anniversary. By Philip Gefter An exhibition ...
I had the pleasure of interviewing famed ballet dancer George Zoritch in his Tucson home in August 2008. My piece on the native Russian appeared on Dance Magazine‘s online site in February 2009.
One, at St Petersburg’s Russian Museum, concentrates more on Russian artists from the earlier period of Diaghilev’s creative life in that city. At least for Russians, the show at the Tretyakov Gallery ...