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Sharon Skeel is the author of Catherine Littlefield: A Life in Dance (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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When the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World
Serge Diaghilev ushered ballet into the twentieth century with his notoriously wild productions. A new book explores how he built his modernist empire.
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Books
Serenade
A former ballerina searches for meaning in George Balanchine's first American ballet.