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SUMMARY:Pilgrimage to an Imagined West:  Antiquity and the Early Ballets Russes
DESCRIPTION:“We were all revolutionists in those days ... fighting f
 or the cause of Russian art,” Serge Diaghilev\, the founder and long
 time director of the Ballets Russes\, told American critic Olin Downes
  in 1916.  “We have tried\, ... to build up an art expressive in eve
 ry phase of the Russian temperament.”  Raised in Perm at the foot of
  the Ural Mountains\, Diaghilev began his artistic journey in the Russ
 ian heartland\, and the early years of the Ballets Russes were filled 
 with its sounds\, stories\, and images.  But the Mediterranean world a
 lso beckoned\, and its call led to the creation of several ballets set
  in antiquity\, in the imagined heart of the West.  This talk will exp
 lore the idea of antiquity in the Ballets Russes as an assertion of We
 stern identity amid the exotic splendors of Russianness.
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