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9780306808784

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

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  • ISBN13:

    9780306808784

  • ISBN10:

    0306808781

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-08-22
  • Publisher: Da Capo

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Summary

"In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction of impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev (1872-1"

Author Biography

Dance critic and historian Lynn Garafola is the editor of Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the Romantic Edition and coeditor of André Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the Twenties. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

I ART 3(144)
1. The Liberating Aesthetic of Michel Fokine
3(47)
2. The Vanguard Poetic of Vaslav Nijinsky
50(26)
3. The Making of Ballet Modernism
76(22)
4. The Twenties
98(49)
II ENTERPRISE 147(126)
5. Russian Origins
147(30)
6. Into the Marketplace
177(24)
7. Underwriting Modernism: American Intermezzo
201(10)
8. Era of the Dance Boom
211(26)
9. Protean Identities
237(36)
III AUDIENCE 273(103)
10. Paris: The Cultivated Audience
273(27)
11. London: Lords, Ladies, and Literati
300(30)
12. The Postwar Audience
330(46)
Epilogue 376(3)
Appendix A: Works Created by Michel Fokine, 1905-1917 379(14)
Appendix B: Operas Produced by Serge Diaghilev 393(6)
Appendix C: Ballets Produced by Serge Diaghilev 399(18)
Notes 417(74)
Selected Bibliography 491(12)
Photo Credits 503(2)
Index 505
Illustrations follow pages 110 and 206

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