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Modernity kept seeping into ballet, a genre that had traditionally looked to a distant, mythical or magical past. First, the tutu gave way to an everyday tennis costume in Jeux by Debussy/Nijinsky, then ragtime rang out in Parade by Satie/Picasso, and in the 1920s Diaghilev decided staged a series of ballets drawn from contemporary life, and in particular, the French high society in which Diaghilev moved.

Uploaded 11-06-26

Milhaud and Poulenc provided the sparkling scores, while Coco Chanel added her sparkling costumes.

A lecture by Marina Frolova-Walker 7 April

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