Serge Diaghilev is convinced to take her to Paris with the Ballets Russes where she dances the title role of Cléopâtre.    From Wordnik.com.  [View from the Northern Border] Reference

Filippo del Giudice was an extraordinary man, a kind of Diaghilev of the English cinema.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography]

Diaghilev buys black hair creams and rubs them in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference

But then art, for the exiled Diaghilev, was a homeland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference

Diaghilev left no autobiography, and never filmed his ballets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Ballet Turning Point] Reference

Diaghilev was gnashing his teeth, and I felt sad and dejected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference

Worse, Diaghilev seemed to be abandoning Nijinsky as an artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference

In fact, Diaghilev treated his ballerinas more or less benevolently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference

At the same time, his relationship with Diaghilev was deteriorating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference

The Sadler's Wells event is one of many to mark the Diaghilev centenary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Ballet Turning Point] Reference

Diaghilev liked to be talked about and therefore wore a monocle in one eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference

For Diaghilev this was more than a personal betrayal, it was an artistic one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference

Diaghilev combined dance, music and art in bold ways to create 'total theatre'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 to Open at the V&A] Reference

Nijinsky was promptly dismissed, freeing him to dance full-time with Diaghilev.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Ballet Turning Point] Reference

I pushed him only slightly because I felt not anger against Diaghilev but tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference

He rehearsed us in the Diaghilev ballets -- Firebird, Petrushka and Les Sylphides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking the Royal Ballet to New Heights] Reference

Diaghilev attempted through French authorities to somehow secure Valentin's release.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passions of an Impresario] Reference

"Exactly what I wanted," Diaghilev confided to Stravinsky in a restaurant afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference

Because I think that it's perfectly obvious that she was not a Diaghilev or a Kirstein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Nash: Lucia Chase, America's Ballet Mistress] Reference

Everywhere he went, Diaghilev was careful to cultivate those who might be of assistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference

Sort of a Diaghilev writ small because he always did it by himself out of his own pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond J. Learsy: L.A. MOCA Throws a "Hail Jeffrey"] Reference

Diaghilev was also homosexual, which by the early 20th century opened as many doors as it closed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference

Astafieva and Dolin (now a Ballets Russes soloist) arranged for her to dance again for Diaghilev.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alicia Markova.] Reference

Fortunately for Diaghilev, a bequest from his mother was walled off from the demands of creditors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passions of an Impresario] Reference

The strategies with which Diaghilev addressed these obstacles are astonishingly modern in their scope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference

He went around to the hotel where Diaghilev was staying, and was bedded, and presumably hired, the same day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference

Noces is, of course, set to the great Stravinsky score entrusted by Diaghilev to Bronislava Nijinska in 1923.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Feet Taps into Joy; Stirrings at City Ballet] Reference

"Without Diaghilev the great tradition of classical ballet dancing might have died of dry rot," wrote the young man later.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Saved Ballet] Reference

Global cataclysms as well as his personal financial crises meant that Diaghilev never set foot in Russia again after World War I.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passions of an Impresario] Reference

You sensed footsteps being followed at English National Ballet's celebratory Diaghilev program in early June at Sadler's Wells in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Ballet Turning Point] Reference

De Pulszky fell in love with Nijinsky and managed to talk Diaghilev into allowing her to travel with the company and take ballet classes with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference

A's major autumn exhibition, "Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909 -- 1929", will explore the world of the influential artistic director.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 to Open at the V&A] Reference

The adventure began in 1909, when Diaghilev arrived in Paris with a troupe of dancers recruited on their summer break from the imperial ballet of St Petersburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference