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	Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , 1872-1929, Russian ballet impresario and art critic, grad. St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, 1892. In 1898 he founded an influential journal, Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art]. He took a company of Russian dancers to Paris (1909) and, with the assistance of the... Read more
	Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky , 1882-1971, Russian-American composer. Considered by many the greatest and most versatile composer of the 20th cent., Stravinsky helped to revolutionize modern music. Stravinsky's father, an actor and singer in St. Petersburg, had him educated for the law. Music was only... Read more
	Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast (1994), a musical fantasy by Linda Woolverton (book), Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman, Tim Rice (lyrics). [Palace Theatre, still running.] The timeless tale of an arrogant prince ( Terrence Mann) turned into a beast and saved by the love of a beauty ( Susan Egan) had... Read more
	Michel Fokine Michel Fokine , 1880-1942, Russian-American choreographer and ballet dancer, b. Russia. He studied at the Imperial Ballet School (1889-98) and danced at the Maryinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg. In 1905 he created Le Cygne (The Dying Swan) for Pavlova to music of Saint-Saëns. He accompanied... Read more
	World of Art World of Art (Mir Iskusstva). The name of an informal association of Russian artists and of the journal they published from 1899 to 1904; the association was formed in St Petersburg in 1898 and in its original form lasted until 1906 (it was revived in 1910 as an exhibiting society, and this lasted... Read more
	George Balanchine George Balanchine , 1904-83, American choreographer and ballet dancer, b. St. Petersburg, Russia, as Georgi Balanchivadze. The son of a composer, Balanchine attended the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, and performed in Russia. In 1924 he toured Europe and joined Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes... Read more
	Frederick Ashton Frederick Ashton The choreographer most responsible for the growth of ballet in modern-day England, Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988) was one of the most important twentieth-century inheritors of the classical ballet tradition, developed in France and nurtured in the late nineteenth century... Read more
	Dame Marie Rambert Dame Marie Rambert 1888-1982, a founder of the English ballet, b. Warsaw as Miriam Rambam. Trained by Jacques Dalcroze in eurythmics, Rambert joined the Diaghilev Ballet Russe as an instructor in 1913. She danced with the company after studying ballet with Enrico Cecchetti. In 1920 she opened her... Read more
	Andre Bauchant Bauchant, André (1873–1958) French naive painter. He was a market gardener until 1914 and did not begin painting until 1919, when he was demobilized after war service (in the army he had shown a talent for drawing and had been trained as a map-maker). In 1921 his work was shown at the... Read more
	Lev Nikolayevich Bakst Lev Nikolayevich Bakst , 1868-1924, Russian scene designer and painter. His original, imaginative style and brilliant color exerted a wide influence on costume, stage setting, and the decorative arts. His set and costume designs made for Diaghilev's ballets Cleopatra and Scheherazade from 1910... Read more