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In The History Of Twentieth-century Ballet, No Company Has Had So Profound And Far-reaching An Influence As The Ballets Russes. It Existed For Only Twenty Years--from 1909 To 1929--but In That Brief Period It Transformed Ballet Into A Vital, Modern Art. The Ballets Russes Created The First Of This Century's Classics: Les Sylphides, Firebird, Petrouchka, L'après-midi D'un Faune, Le Sacre Du Printemps, Parade, Les Noces, Les Biches, Apollo, And Prodigal Son, All Of Which Continue To Be Performed Today. It Nurtured Many Of The Century's Greatest Choreographers--fokine, Nikinsky, Massine, Nijinska, And Balanchine--and Through Them Influenced The Direction Of Dance To This Day.^ It Brokered The Century's Most Remarkable Marriages Between Dance And The Other Arts, Forging Partnerships Between Composers Such As Stravinsky, Debussy, Falla, Ravel, Prokofiev, And Satie, Painters Like Picasso, Bakst, Matisse, Derain, Braque, Gris And Rouault, And Poets On The Order Of Hoffmansthal And Cocteau. From The Dancers Who Passed Through Its Ranks Emerged The Teachers And Ballet Masters Who Continued Its Work In Cities Large And Small Throughout The West. And, As If All This Were Not Enough, The Compa

Author

Barbican (London)

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195076042

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, History