By Robert Greskovic Part three in our series featuring the personal photo card collection of our New York correspondent After the October Revolution of 1917, the imperial ballet world’s schools and theatres were renamed by the new Bolshevik government as state theatres and state academies. Once ballet troupes began to come out of Soviet Russia
By Robert Greskovic Featuring three more photo cards from Robert Greskovic’s personal collection. Part one is available here. The card below shows Marie Petipa and Sergei Legat in the Pas Hongrois czardas from the Act 2 ballroom scene of Swan Lake by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. The photo must have been taken after the
Much like the 19th-century Impressionist movement that forever changed the art world through the genius of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and others, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes of the early 20th century forever changed the dance world, through such artists as Vaslav Nijinsky, Michel Fokine and George Balanchine. As part of Milwaukee Ballet’s 50th-anniversary