Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

by Lynn Garafola

Book Overview

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'Apr s-midi d'un Faune, Le Sacre du Printemps, Parade, Les Noces, Les Biches, Apollo, and Prodigal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195057015
• ISBN13: 9780195057010
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.6" x 9.6"