How much do ballet lovers on these shores owe to the Ballets Russes? As surely as Alexander the Great plowed through the known world in his day, those starving Russian emigres rolled across America ...

In conjunction with the National Gallery of Art's exhibit "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes," choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess choreographed a new dance, "Revenant Elegy," inspired by the exhibit.

“Something different is afoot at the National Gallery,” said Julia Langley in DCist.com. In an exhibition that celebrates the groundbreaking work of the Ballets Russes and its founder, Serge Diaghilev ...

It was in 1909 that Sergei Diaghilev stunned Paris with the first performances of his Ballets Russes, and today the It was in 1909 that Sergei Diaghilev stunned Paris with the first performances of ...

Ballets Russes: Documentary. Written and directed by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine. (Not rated. 118 minutes. At the Embarcadero.) "Ballets Russes" is a survival story. It tells the tale of a fabled ...

It’s May 1922. There’s a dazzling soiree going on at the Hotel Majestic: Picasso is there, and so is Stravinsky. Serge Diaghilev, head of the Ballets Russes, is the ringleader at this after-party for ...

Little girls still take ballet classes, ballet companies still exist in major cities, and touring troupes still bring the ballet to smaller cultural centers, but the art form doesn't have anywhere ...

"Ballets Russes" is much more than a specialty item for dance aficionados. Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller's expertly crafted, years-in-the-making docu takes viewers on an ebullient odyssey from Russia ...

Written by Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, Gary Weimberg and Celeste Schaefer Snyder I am not a sports fan, but I have found sports documentaries such as Hoop Dreams compelling. I can relate to the agony ...