Billed as “Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siecle” (Russian Seasons of the 21st Century), this new festival at the London Coliseum, due to take place from 12th to 17th April, continues the capital’s trend of productions paying homage to the founder of the Ballet Russes, impresario Sergei Diaghilev. The innovative (…)
BRINGING together dancers from the Kremlin Ballet theatre company, plus guest artists from the Mariinsky and Bolshoi, Andris Liepa’s dream project – subtitled Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siècle – delivers an unprecedented number of ballets created by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between 1909 and 1929. Regarded as the Golden Age (…)
The Diaghilev Festival is announced at a time of great interest in the life and work of Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. The Victoria & Albert Museum embarks on a major autumn exhibition – “Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909 – 1929” – opening Saturday 25 (…)
Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes first danced in London in 1911. A hundred years on, the Diaghilev Festival at the London Coliseum presents three programmes of revivals and restagings of works from the Ballets Russes repertory. The season will be danced by Kremlin Ballet Theatre, with guest stars Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Ilze Liepa, (…)
