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Sergei Diaghilev
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Noun1.Sergei Diaghilev - Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)


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When Serge Diaghilev brought his Ballets Russes to Paris in 1909, they were an overnight sensation and changed the course of ballet history.
He ranked alongside giants such as Serge Diaghilev and George Balanchine "in making people rethink the essence of dance and choreography, posing a series of 'But' and 'What if?
Even now, 100 years after Serge Diaghilev astonished Paris with his first season of the Ballets Russes, the name Diaghilev calls up images of exoticism, opulence, and innovation.
 
 
 
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