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Diaghilev: Magnificent Maecenas |
| Section: THE ARTS / DESIGN |
| Author: Kate Regan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,201 Words, 13,900 Characters |
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Portly Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, of course, never danced a step on any stage. Yet as founder of the Ballets Russes and as the company's supporter for twenty chaotic years, his name was inextricably linked in the public mind with all the dazzlement, sensuality, and astonishing technique of the Russian Ballet. He was the man who brought Nijinsky, Pavlova, Karsavina, and Balanchine to the West, who brought Cleopatra Scheherezade, Rites of Spring, Parade, and The Prodigal Son to the stage.
He did much more, as a recent exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco reminded us. The Art of Enchantment: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes coincided with the eightieth anniversary of the Paris premiere of the Ballets Russes--May 28, 1909--and the show's incisive catalog offers an invaluable su...
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...ly beautiful. In the few Diaghilev ballets still extant, even in the recent rather dry reconstruction of Nijinsky's Rites of Spring, there is the thrill of something authentically alive and self-propelling. Both the exhibition and the catalog for The Art of Enchantment succeed in suggesting the largesse of Diaghilev's twenty-year adventure and the spell still cast by the words Ballets Russes.
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