Carolina Ballet: Homage to Diaghilev March 20, 2009

Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev revolutionized music, the visual arts, theater, and dance, and set the course of the arts for the twentieth century. He discovered talent and nurtured it to fulfillment in breathtaking productions of art exhibitions, concerts, operas, and, especially, ballets. Diaghilev brought together the talents of his discoveries - artists such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Michel Fokine, Leonide Massine, and George Balanchine, to name only a few - to assemble an unsurpassed "total theater." The ultimate vehicle for his genius was the Ballets Russes.