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	Sergei Diaghilev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Сергей Павлович Дягилев) (March 19, 1872 – August 19, 1929), often known as Serge, was a Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise.
		Diaghilev heard Stravinsky's early orchestral works Fireworks and Scherzo Fantastique, and was impressed enough to ask Stravinsky to arrange some pieces by Frederic Chopin for the Ballets Russes.
		Diaghilev staged “The Sleeping Beauty” of Tchaikovsky in London in 1921; despite being well received by the public it was not a financial success.
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	Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He took a company of Russian dancers to Paris (1909) and, with the assistance of the painters L. Bakst and Aleksandr Benois and the choreographer Michel Fokine, founded Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, a troupe that was to revolutionize the world of dance.
		Diaghilev's productions were based on the principles of asymmetry and perpetual motion; both music and scene design became an integral part of the dance.
		An imposing personality, he was associated with dancers of the first rank, such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina, Anna Pavlova, Alicia Markova, and Anton Dolin.
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		Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (March 19, 1872 - August 19, 1929), often known as Serge, was a Russian ballet impressario and founder of the Ballets Russes[?] from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise.
		Born in Perm[?], Russia, in 1910 Diaghilev organised the first of 20 ballet seasons in Paris, France.
		Diaghilev used ballet music which he commissioned from composers such as Claude Debussy (Jeux, 1913), Maurice Ravel (Daphnis et Chloé, 1912), Erik Satie (Parade, 1917), Richard Strauss (Josephs-Legende, 1914), Sergei Prokofiev (Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite, and Chout, 1915) Francis Poulenc (Les Biches, 1923) and others.
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	Sergei Diaghilev -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Perhaps Diaghilev's most notable composer collaborator, however, was (Composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971)) Igor Stravinsky.
		Diaghilev heard Stravinsky's early orchestral works Fireworks and Scherzo Fantastique, and was impressed enough to ask Stravinsky to arrange some pieces by (additional info and facts about Frederic Chopin) Frederic Chopin for the Ballets Russes.
		Members of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes later went on to found ballet traditions in the United States ((United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983)) George Balanchine) and England (Ninette de Valois and (additional info and facts about Marie Rambert) Marie Rambert).
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	SERGEI DIAGHILEV FACTS, INFORMATIONS AND TRADES
		Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Ð¡ÐµÑÐ³ÐµÐ¹ ÐÐ°Ð²Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ Ð”ÑÐ³Ð¸Ð»ÐµÐ²) (March_19, 1872 â“ August_19, 1929), often known as Serge, was a Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets_Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise.
		Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Claude_Debussy (''Jeux'', 1913), Maurice_Ravel (''Daphnis_et_ChloÃ©'', 1912), Erik_Satie (''Parade'', 1917), Richard_Strauss (''Josephs-Legende'', 1914), Sergei_Prokofiev (''Ala and Lolly'', rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the ''Scythian Suite'', and ''Chout'', 1915), Ottorino_Respighi (''La_Boutique_Fantasque'', 1918), Francis_Poulenc (''Les Biches'', 1923) and others.
		Members of Diaghilev's ''Ballets Russes'' later went on to found ballet traditions in the United States (George_Balanchine) and England (Ninette de Valois and Marie_Rambert).
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	sergei diaghilev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Сергей Павлович Дягилев) (March 19, 1872 – August 19, 1929), often known as Serge, was a Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise.
		Wishing to acquaint Western Europe with Russian art, in 1907 he organized an exhibition of Russian paintings in Paris as well as a series of concerts and operas.
		In 1910 Diaghilev started a series of ballet seasons in Paris with his Ballets Russes, with famous dancers like Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky.
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	Sergei Diaghilev -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As the founder of the legendary Ballets Russes, impresario Sergei Diaghilev revolutionized ballet in the early 20th century.
		Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev was born in the Novgorod province of Russia on March 31, 1872.
		Diaghilev's interest in dance began while he was a member of a small circle of intellectuals in St. Petersburg who fought to bring Russia's arts onto the wider European scene.
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	DanceWorks SideSteps - People: Serge Diaghilev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Diaghilev presented an extraordinary range of ballet genres, from the romantic Giselle (1910), to the light and surreal Parade (1917), to the lavish Russian Imperial style of The Sleeping Beauty (1921).
		Diaghilev was extraordinarily effective in stimulating the creative gifts of the people he worked with, and his drawing together of the major talents of his era was a catalyst for much of the art and music of the period.
		Diaghilev commissioned many musical scores from the Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky, including The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), The Rite of Spring (1913), Les Noces (1923), and Apollon musagète (1928).
	www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/people/diaghilev.htm (411 words)

	Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev
		A must for balletomanes, here is a portrait of Serge Diaghilev, the genius behind the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo--the legendary troupe that set the standard for ballet for generations.
		Diaghilev collaborated with the most famous artists, composers and dancers of the period.
		Sergei Diaghilev and many of the members of the World of Art movement and the Russian ballet were gay.
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	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Sergei Diaghilev
		Diaghilev organized and promoted the World of Art group during his liaison with his cousin, the painter Dmitry (Dima) Filosofov, who was his first lover.
		Sergei Diaghilev was a crucial figure in the istory of the arts i the 20th century, a dinamic and dominant personality.
		Diaghilev was already in love with Massine before he lost Nijinsky - one thing does not exclude another - but his relationship with Massine was essentially with the choreographer.
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	Dance Magazine: Letter from London - exhibit honoring Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev
		Tastefully and colorfully staged by Paul Dart, the exhibition followed the impresario's life from schoolboy to the visionary whose ambition and impetus first presented to Europe the hitherto little-known culture of Russia, and whose Ballets Russes was later to change the face of dance in the west.
		Diaghilev was born in 1872 in Selistchev, near Novgorod in southwest Russia.
		When Diaghilev graduated in 1895, it was not as the composer or singer he had hoped to be.
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	Encyclopedia: Sergei-Prokofiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He reaffirmed his contacts with the Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and with Stravinsky, and returned to some of his older unfinished works such as the Third Piano Concerto.
		View of the Mariinsky Theatre in the 1890ies The Mariinsky Theatre, known as the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1934-92, is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in St Petersburg.
		The Gambler (Igrok in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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	DanceWorks SideSteps - Ballets Russes, the Fokine years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As régisseur (rehearsal director) to the Diaghilev Ballet, Sergei Grigoriev was the most loyal of Diaghilev's colleagues, and he was the only one to remain with the company throughout the twenty years of its existence.
		It is fortunate, therefore, that he recorded his memoires (The Diaghilev Ballet, 1909-1929), reconstructed from some old notebooks in which he had carefully summarized information relating to all the seasons ever given by the Diaghilev ballet.
		Diaghilev commissioned The Firebird from Fokine and Stravinsky (right) to go with Schéhérezade, Le Carnaval and Giselle for a season at Paris Opéra commencing 4 June (preceded by sellout performances in Berlin).
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		Bubka, Sergei, born in 1964, Ukrainian pole vaulter, who broke the world record in pole vaulting more than 30 times.
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		Born in Gruzine, Diaghilev worked in Russia in art, opera, and ballet until settling in Paris in 1906.
		Diaghilev's drawing together of his era's major talents was a catalyst for much of the period's art and music.
		Diaghilev commissioned musical scores from Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky; French composers Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud, and Erik Satie; and Spaniard Manuel de Falla.
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		Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich, 1872-1929, Russian ballet impresario and art critic, grad...
		Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich (1872-1929), Russian ballet impresario who, with the Ballets Russes (1909-1929), revived...
		Sergei Pavlovich (1872-1929) Russian ballet impresario who helped revive ballet as a serious art form.
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	Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Russian scenic designer for Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev's Ballets Russes who is best-known for his monumental historical sets.
		Obraztsov, Sergey V. Puppet master Sergey V. Obraztsov established puppetry as an art form in the Soviet Union and is considered to be one of the greatest puppeteers of the 20th century.
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	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Also on this day: 1872: Birth of Russian ballet company founder Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev; 1931: Alka-Seltzer first marketed in America; 1938: BBC televised its first rugby match, England v Scotland...
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		People called him Sergei Pavlovich, she called him Sergipops.
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		In 1923 he joined the Aviation and Gliding...
		Bubka, Sergei (1963- ), Ukrainian pole vaulter, who broke the world record in pole vaulting 35 times.
		He won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.
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	Articles in Magazines: Diaghilev: Magnificent Maecenas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Art of Enchantment: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes coincided with the eightieth anniversary of the Paris premiere of the Ballets Russes--May 28, 1909--and the show's incisive catalog offers an invaluable su...
		In the few Diaghilev ballets still extant, even in the recent rather dry reconstruction of Nijinsky's Rites of Spring, there is the thrill of something authentically alive and self-propelling.
		Both the exhibition and the catalog for The Art of Enchantment succeed in suggesting the largesse of Diaghilev's twenty-year adventure and the spell still cast by the words Ballets Russes.
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	Diaghilev: Magnificent Maecenas - Kate Regan
		Yet as founder of the Ballets Russes and as the company's supporter for twenty chaotic years, his name was inextricably linked in the public mind with all the dazzlement, sensuality, and astonishing technique of the Russian Ballet.
		The Art of Enchantment: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes coincided with the eightieth anniversary of the Paris premiere of the Ballets Russes--May 28, 1909--and the show's incisive catalog offers an invaluable summary of Diaghilev's work and influence.
		In 1986 she organized a significant exhibition on Bronislava Nijinska (the sister of Vaslav Nijinsky), whose career as dancer and choreographer flourished long after insanity ended his own.
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		Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev[syirgA´ pAv´luvich dyA´gilyif] Pronunciation Key, 1872–1929, Russian ballet impresario and art critic, grad.
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		From 1914 to 1920, Delaunay lived in Spain and Portugal and became friends with Sergei Diaghilev, Leonide Massine, Diego Rivera, and Igor Stravinsky.
		In 1916 the young poet Jean Cocteau brought the Russian Impressario Diaghilev and the composer Erik Satie to meet Picasso in his studio.
		In 1917 he traveled to Rome with Cocteau and spent time with Diaghilev’s ballet company, worked on décor for “Parade”, met Igor Stravinsky and fell in love with the dancer Olga Koklova.
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