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n. - Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929).

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  • Serge Diaghilev is convinced to take her to Paris with the Ballets Russes where she dances the title role of Cléopâtre.
  • Filippo del Giudice was an extraordinary man, a kind of Diaghilev of the English cinema.
  • Diaghilev buys black hair creams and rubs them in.
  • But then art, for the exiled Diaghilev, was a homeland.
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