THE ever-growing interest shown by the American public in the art of the dance, the success with which the finest choreographic spectacles have met, and the increasing talent and skill of the ...

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 ...

Terrence McNally’s ‘Fire and Air’ focuses on the impresario Diaghilev’s romantic relationship with the legendary Nijinsky, and clashing themes of love, need, and ambition. Senior Editor and Writer A ...

In the tangled narrative of 20th century art, there is no more colourful or influential figure than Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. The son of a bankrupt Russian vodka distiller, Diaghilev would reinvent ...

In Proust's rather newsy big novel, Mme Verdurin does not simply have her salon, she does not simply throw her party, her "Wednesdays": she puts them together "like a bird building its nest". She may ...

There is no correlation between the durability of a story and its veracity. One of the most persistent myths about Diaghilev concerns his large head and the role it supposedly played in his birth.

Historical geniuses are tricky beasts to dramatize. Last year, Scott Carter’s attempt to revive the corpses of Dickens, Tolstoy, and Thomas Jefferson fell flat at Primary Stages. Now, in the world ...

LONDON — Russian dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev once sat down to dinner with Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky. For many, his name is the least familiar amid the roll ...

Sjeng Scheijen’s “Diaghilev: A Life” is a superb biography of the world’s greatest artistic trailblazer and impresario, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872–1929). In this fascinating and moving account, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On what would have been his 145th birthday, Google celebrates the life and work of Russian visionary Sergei Diaghilev On what ...