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Article: Looking back at the Ballets Russes: rediscovering Serge Lifar. (Lifar's life and art collection)
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- Dance Magazine
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- October 1, 1997
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This month, with the opening of the exhibition, "Design, Dance and Music of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929," at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum, Serge Lifar returns briefly to the limelight. The last of Diaghilev's leading men, Lifar was one of the great danseurs of the 1930s, an architect of modern French ballet, and a World War II collaborator, whose relationship with the Nazis caused many to revile him. He was also the owner of the nearly two hundred paintings, drawings, and designs that form the heart of the Atheneum's collection of Ballets Russes material--the oldest such collection in the United States and still one of the best. If ever a man had a knack for being in ...
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