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Article: Ballets de Monte Carlo: creating new legends; Jean-Christophe Maillot continues the Diaghilev tradition by bringing his Ballets de Monte Carlo to Manhattan in October.(Serge Diaghilev)
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- Dance Magazine
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- October 1, 1996
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When Nijinsky performed Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose in April 1911 at Monte Carlo's opulent Garnier opera house, he overwhelmed the audience with his dazzling technique and distinctive theatricality. The great impresario Serge Diaghilev had brought him and other Russian emigre artists to fashionable Monte Carlo, hoping to attract enough wealthy backers to establish a company there. After only a few performances, he had his financing. An entirely new style of ballet then began to take root in European soil.
This fall, the Ballet Russe's descendant, Ballets de Monte Carlo, performs October 8-13 at City Center. It will present Fokine's Prince Igor to the ...
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