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In 1922 Diaghilev reaches an agreement with the Société des Bains de Mer for the Ballets Russes to become Monte Carlo’s resident ballet company, although initially this is complicated by the presence of a Franco-Italian troupe directed by Georges Belloni. In Paris, Diaghilev sees Alexander Tairov’s Kamerny Theater, his first glimpse of Soviet avant-garde stagecraft, which is received ecstatically by critics. In response he decides to produce Stravinsky’s Les Noces in the spare, Constructivist style advocated by Nijinska. The ballet is a triumph both for Nijinska and for the company’s dancers, who work relentlessly to master the challenging choreography and score. Hailed by French critics as a masterpiece, Les Noces is condemned by André Levinson, the politically conservative émigré dance critic, who attacks Nijinska personally and condemns the ballet’s Constructivist aesthetic as “Soviet,” the start of a vendetta that lasts for nearly a decade. |
