Letter from London.(exhibit honoring Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev) From: Dance Magazine | Date: September 1, 1996| Author: Willis, Margaret | COPYRIGHT 1996 Dance Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

An exhibit at the Barbican Center, London, UK, showed some 300 artifacts of the great ballet director Diaghilev of the Ballet Russes. There were photos of him, his contemporaries and the dancers, costumes, and recreated stages with sets.

LONDON--Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev would have approved of the exhibition staged in homage to him at London's Barbican Center last spring. And he probably would have recognized the tense atmosphere that pervaded the air here on the day I attend...