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Ballets Russes

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History of the remarkable Ballets Russes company

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Dan Geller
Dayna Goldfine

Featuring a wealth of archival footage and juicy anecdotal interviews, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine's film is an engrossing, affectionate tribute to the revolutionary Ballets Russes, founded by Diaghilev and famed for its artistic associations. The company's designers, composers and choreographers included George Balanchine, Pablo Picasso, Claude Debussy, Salvador Dali and Igor Stravinsky, among many others.

This is the fascinating story of what began as a group of Russian émigrés who had never danced in Russia, and evolved into two rival dance troupes who fought the infamous 'ballet battles' that consumed inter-war London society.

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Alwyn Pritchard

Fri 22 January 2010, 01:07

History of Ballets Russes
Will you be repeating this excellent programme? One of us missed it the first time.

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