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Why artists are great choreographers by Judith Mackrell

Contrasting shows " one of Dutch masters, the other a modern installation " highlight the interplay between art and danceWhen Sergei Diaghilev was educating his young proteges to become choreographers for the Ballets Russes, he used to walk them around the great art galleries of Europe: pointing out the grouping of figures in a Renaissance painting, or the mechanistic energies of futurist art. Diaghilev understood th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM on July 26, 2013

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