In the Spirit of Diaghilev

Few weeks ago, I went to Saddler's well to watch 'In the spirit of diaghilev'. Sergei Diaghilev was a founder and director of Ballets Russes which became the sensation in the western art culture. Their unique productions into which combined contemporary art,visual art, music and dances, hugely influecned 20th centruy's arts. Their collaboration with contemporary dancers, artists, composers which includes Najinski, Bakst,Picasso, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov was simply outstanding.
Diaghilev was not artistically or musically talented person. However, his passion and love for arts and music and his ability to gather many of the great personalities into one company enabled Ballets Russes to be successful worldwidly.

What can I say about the modern challenge to revive the spirit of Ballets Russes. They were simply amazing in my view. Having never seen the actual Ballets Russes performance, I had to satisfy with the modern version.Still, they were perfect in my statndard. All four performances,Dyad, Afterlight, Faun and Surprise me were breathtaking and out of all, my personal favourite was Faun:

"Performed against the backdrop of a sylvan wood, this fluid, delicate duet portrays an encounter between creatures who are human and feral, mythological and alive. In their artless, vulnerable discovery of each other"-Judith Mackerell