Diaghilev's famous challenge to Jean Cocteau – "Surprise me" – became the catchphrase of his Ballets Russes, but even Diaghilev might have been shocked by one of these four new works to mark his ...

If you were really somebody in Paris at the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), you weren't just in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. You were in the car ...

How did Nijinsky, one of the greatest dancers of all time, with reports of astonishing elevation, amazing, floating jumps, how did he get in the air when wearing a costume made out of silk, satin, ...

I had the pleasure of interviewing famed ballet dancer George Zoritch in his Tucson home in August 2008. My piece on the native Russian appeared on Dance Magazine‘s online site in February 2009.

The title of Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s documentary is a bit misleading: its subject isn’t Diaghilev’s groundbreaking Ballets Russes, companies whose collaborators included Debussy and Picasso ...