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Event Series Event Series: REDISCOVERING DIAGHILEV

REDISCOVERING DIAGHILEV

May 17, 2022 @ 7:30 pm

$16 – $95
Diaghliev+Sekov

A Special Music, Art, Dance, and Theater Lecture Series

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Great Impresario, Founder of the Ballets Russes

Presented by Victoria Martino

Tuesdays, April 26, May 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2022

Join music, art, literary, and dance historian Victoria Martino in a five-week lecture series, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Diaghilev by rediscovering and redefining the scope of his immeasurable influence on modern culture.

Who was Sergei Diaghilev? What did he do? Condemned by his own country as the ultimate exemplar of bourgeois decadence and depravity, he was excised from Soviet cultural history. Yet, in the international world of art, music, dance, and theater, he was revered, even idolized, as the greatest impresario of all time. Creator, critic, curator, Diaghilev played all these roles, defining for many the very meaning of contemporary art in the 20th century. In his role as founder and director of the legendary Ballets Russes, Diaghilev commissioned and patronized a veritable lexicon of artists, choreographers, composers, dancers, and designers: from Matisse to Picasso, Fokine to Massine, Debussy to Stravinsky, Nijinsky to Pavlova, Bakst to Chanel.

Details

Date:
May 17, 2022
Time:
7:30 pm
Series:
Cost:
$16 – $95
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Venue

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall Street
La Jolla, CA 92037 United States
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(858) 454-5872
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