Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
In September 1918, after a four-year absence from England, the Russian Ballet returned to London, delighting its pre-War devotees.6 So began the longest period of time in which the Ballet played in any single city: over the course of the next six teen months Diaghilev was to mount three successive seasons at three different London theatres. Diaghilev took advantage of this extended residence not only to restore the company's always precarious finances and to reverse its peripatetic wartime existence, but also to reinforce the alignment between the Ballet and the avant-garde that had begun with Picasso's earlier ballet, Parade.
