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Collection Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev

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Related Performing Arts Encyclopedia special presentation:

For the Library of Congress online exhibition, see:

For further information on Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, see:

  • Bowlt, John E., editor and Zelfira Tregulova, editor. A Festival of Wonders: Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. New York: Rizzoli, 2009.
  • Garafola, Lynn. Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • Garafola, Lynn and Nancy Van Norman Baer. The Ballets Russes and Its World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
  • Nijinska, Bronislava. Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.
  • For expanded biographies of the many of the choreographers, dancers, artists, and composers associated with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, see:
  • Bremser, Martha, editor. International Dictionary of Ballet (2 vol.). Detroit, London, Washington, D.C.: St James Press, 1977.
  • Cohen, Selma Jeanne, Founding Editor. International Encyclopedia of Dance. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Sadie, Stanley, Editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2001.