Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

"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"

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.

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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Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

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