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- Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
How To Use Sergei Diaghilev In A Sentence
- Ballet was at its most artistically powerful in the hands of the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who was insistent that the form was a gesamtkunstwerk, a total artwork, comprising not dancing merely, but music and design as well.
- An energetic, parodic drawing of dancers based on a celebrated print from the Romantic Ballet era encapsulates, along with a witty drawing of Igor Stravinsky, Picasso's association with Sergei Diaghilev and his experimental Ballets Russes. Portrait of a Restless Artist as a Young Man
