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Article: Attitudes.(exhibition and performances pay homage to the Ballets Russes, Cincinnati, Ohio)(Column)
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- Dance Magazine
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- October 1, 2003
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Serge Diaghilev--a name now more honored in the breach than in the observance.
He neither danced nor choreographed; he neither created music for ballet nor designed--at least not overtly. Yet as artistic director of his own expatriate Ballets Russes, Diaghilev and his initial artistic team, consisting most importantly of the designers Alexandre Benois and Leon Bakst and choreographer Michel Fokine, created a new brand of ballet, one that suggested that music, visual design, and dance should be an "alliance ... of complete equality." To me this is heresy, for dance in dance should always be paramount. Yet this brand of ballet did have unique virtues.
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