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The Legend Lives: Ballets Russes Share Notes |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Leland Windreich |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,217 Words, 13,987 Characters |
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The Legacy of the Ballets Russes in the Americas was the title of a four-day symposium held in New Orleans. It drew participants from four continents including nearly one hundred surviving dancers from the de Basil Ballets Russes and Sergey Denham's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Originally planned early in 1999 as an informal reunion for members of the Denham troupe, the project was taken over by the International Dance Council of UNESCO, which wisely recognized the significance of a meeting with broader potential.
The Ballets Russes phenomenon had its beginnings in 1909 when the impresario Sergey Diaghilev brought a company of ballet artists from the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg to Paris, where it took audiences by storm. For the next five years the company returned annually, o...
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While few of the remarkable ballets may survive into the twenty-first century, the spirit of the Ballets Russes phenomenon persists. Its vitality, as revealed in the faces and words of those who reconvened with their peers some four decades after their dancing days ended, will surely be transmitted to those in the studios who had the rare experience of association with greatness.
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