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Diaghilev

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Dia·ghi·lev  (d-äg-lf, dyäg-lf), Sergei Pavlovich 1872-1929.
Russian ballet impresario whose Ballets Russes company, founded in Paris in 1909, featured the extraordinary talents of, among others, the dancers Nijinsky and Pavlova, the choreographers Fokine and Massine, the composers Ravel and Stravinsky, and the artists Bakst and Picasso.
Diaghilev (Russian) [ˈdjagɪlif]
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(Biographies / Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich (1872-1929) M, Russian, DANCE: ballet impresario) Sergei Pavlovich (sɪrˈgjej ˈpavləvitʃ). 1872-1929, Russian ballet impresario. He founded (1909) and directed (1909-29) the
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Noun1.Diaghilev - Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Sergei Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev


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What emerged from these interviews was an illustrated journey through the rise and fall and splintering of the Ballets Russes after the death of founder Serge Diaghilev in 1929.
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He spanned the worlds of Proust and Picasso, Diaghilev and Warhol, Stravinsky and Piaf, animating them all with his imaginative, insatiably inventive spirit.
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