Kosloff stages Fokine’s “Les Sylphides” for 80,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

6 February 2012

Kosloff stages Fokine’s “Les Sylphides” for 80,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Category: Architecture & Design, Dance | Tags: fokine, los angeles memorial coliseum, michel fokine, theodore kosloff

A photo from 1923 reveals the large-scale ambition of ballet dancer/instructor Theodore Kosloff. [...]

13 May 2011

L.A. dance programmers add to U.S. trade deficit with tempting imports

Category: Dance | Tags: ballet preljocaj, diavolo, helgi tomasson, hofesh shechter, michel fokine, robert battle, scottish ballet, spectre de la rose, the firebird

A preview of the 2011-2012 Los Angeles dance season, not that the 2010-2011 season is over yet! [...]

3 February 2011

Rare 1928 Ballets Russes film footage found

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: ballets russes, diaghilev, les sylphides, michel fokine, serge lifar, theodore kosloff

“Diaghilev did not like the cameras. Indeed, strictly prohibiting the performance of his company were filmed, perhaps for fear that someone, without going to the theater, could see the breakthrough performances of his dancers.” [...]

24 May 2009

Diaghilev’s five great choreographers

Category: Dance | Tags: alastair macaulay, balanchine, ballets russes, joan acocella, leonide massine, michel fokine, nijinska, nijinsky, theodore kosloff

To create the dances for this glamorous posse, Diaghilev engaged five choreographers over the course of twenty years. This quintet now occupies a permanent spot in choreography heaven as classical ballet’s A-team: Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Bronslava Nijinska, and George Balanchine [...]