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Includes performance and informal photographs of a number of important figures associated with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, directed by Colonel W. deBasil, including George Balanchine, Serge Diaghilev, Felia Doubrovska, Serge Lifar, Alice Nikitina, Pablo Picasso, and Lubov Tchernicheva. Locations include Monte Carlo, Berlin, Edinburg, Paris, London, Barcelona, as well as Mexico ant the United States. (Content)
Russia is home of the worlds two most famous ballet companies—the Bolshoi and the Kirov (Maryinsky) —and the source of ballet’s greatest dancers: Nijinsky, Pavlov, Nureyev and Baryshnikov. Russians are big ballet fans. Sometimes they applaud cameo performers before they step on stage. Russian ballet, some critics say, has achieved greatness by blending classicism and Russian folk dance. Vakil Usmanof, former choreographer for the Moscow Ballet School, told the Economist, "The Russian tradition is unique, with its own internal conception closely related to the Russian soul. It is not modern, not jazz but exclusively classical.”
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