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Article: Saluting the theatrical Diaghilev. (continuing influence of impresario Diaghilev on twentieth century dance)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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Diaghilev is dead, but he won't lie down. The endlessly fascinating impresario, who introduced the Ballets Russes to the West with such dancers as Nijinsky and Pavlova and drew upon such revolutionary creators as Stravinsky, and Picasso, is still very much among us almost sixty-nine years after his death in Venice. He and his commissions are constantly being recalled in ways theatrical, ranging from the remarkable to the bizarre.
Last summer, for example, Diaghilev was reincarnated by Tony Tanner, an English actor-writer now living and working in the U.S. Tucked away in a storefront theater on New York City's Orchard Street, Tanner, in a short but telling ...