Marisa

Hello, There is also a smaller "The Ballets Russes Celebrating the Centennial" Feb 19 - May 24, 2009 Wadsworth Atheneum, Museum of Art, 600 Main Street,Hartford, CT06103 info: www.WadsworthAtheneum.org Events: Ongoing costume display (I think) Lectures: Wednesday April15 ----- 6:00pm Alastair Macauley = "Diaghilev and Style" CLASHES WITH HARVARD CONFERENCE, what a shame. Sunday May 17 --------- 12:00noon Lynn Garafola = "Serge Diaghilev and the Adventure of Ballet Modernism" Galley Talks: Friday March 27 ---------12:00noon Eric Zafran = "The Ballets Russes: Cellebrating the Centennial" Friday May 15 -----------12:00noon Drawing in the Galleries --need to register Is it re: Diaghilev???? Art in Focus: Thursday March 26 ------12:00noon Joan Miro, Dream Painting, 1926 Sunday March 29 --------12:00noon Leon Bakst, Costume fo a Temple Servant, Scheherezade, 1910 Concert: Sunday May 3 ------------2:00pm Composers associated with The Ballets Russes --$

Being new, I hope I am doing this correctly. I have what might be construed as a nit picking question. Why did the Blue Boy (originally Harold Turner) turn into a Green Boy (John Kriza in the photograph) when the ballet crossed the Atlantic? The last time I saw the Royal Ballet do it, their Blue Boy was still blue. Did all the costumes change, or just his? marisa

I have lurking around the edges of "ballet talk" for a while now and I have found the forums most interesting. I think that it must be the Diaghilev Celebrations, or absence of such by some oraganizations, which have finally made me take the plunge. I used to be a professional classical ballet dancer and now teach ballet. I wear the hats of dancer (in my mind - once a dancer, always a dancer), teacher, historian - technique, the Romantic Ballet and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (my teachers were retired Diaghilev dancers), and the apron of devoted servant of felis domesticus. I used to be relatively well aquainted with the other Muses but there seems to be so little time these days. I am computer illiterate. I will do my very careful best, however, not to destroy this fine site. Marisa

I am new to Ballet Talk and forums in general. Your synopsis of the Princess' talk is very interesting, thank you, and makes me wish for more. I wonder if you know whether her talk was recorded. Marisa