Bryan Karetnyk

Ballet comes of age with Sergei Diaghilev

It was the flamboyant, unscrupulous impresario who really dragged the ‘childish business’ of ballet to artistic maturity in the 20th century

Sergei Diaghilev. [Alamy]

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