French ballet has occupied a central place in Western European culture for 350 years, at least. Whenever New Yorkers feel inclined to boast about their dance scene, Parisians can remind them of their ...

When Vaslav Nijinsky’s brain cracked so that he could no longer recognize people or places, his friends had the idea of taking him once more to see the Diaghilev Ballet which he had helped to make the ...

The Russian Renaissance is a curiously lovely thing to look back at over one’s shoulder, blending as it does priceless artistic magic with a touch of eerie futility and the pathos of its impending ...

Masterpieces of the 20th century "made in France": Serge Lifar, an icon of the French Ballet, operates through its created in 1943 for the Paris Opera "Suite en blanc". The work conceived as a homage ...

Two oldtime cutups gave Paris a lively week of ballet and proved that they still could draw crowds. Jean Cocteau, the eccentric 55-year-old poet-artist, designed and wrote a violent ballet for the up ...

The last remnants of one of the greatest private collections of Ballets Russes material goes on view in Geneva this week, prior to being sold on March 13. The sale includes more than 300 drawings, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The ballet season is under way in Paris, and the Opéra is paying tribute to Serge Lifar, its long-time director ...

The last remnants of one of the greatest private collections of Ballets Russes material goes on view in Geneva this week, prior to being sold on March 13th. The works were all owned by Serge Lifar, ...

Serge Lifar (Ukrainian: Сергій Михайлович Лифар, Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar) (15 April [O.S. 2 April] 1905 – 15 December 1986) was a Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer, famous as one of the ...