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Most famously, the tune is remembered for its key role in the movie 10, when a young Bo Derek explains to a drooling Dudley Moore that Ravel's Bolero is the perfect accompaniment to sex.
“In [Sonia Delaunay’s] studio,” a 1927 advertising flyer promised, “you will know that you are seeing something new, something that… will transform your life into a work of art.” Delaunay’s Paris atelier in the twenties was producing textiles, carpets, garments, movie sets, furniture, books, and paintings—everything a person might need for an artful existence and all made in the “simultaneous” (simultané) style that the artist developed with her husband, the painter Robert Delaunay.
It's 40 years since Sir Peter Wright's production of The Sleeping Beauty for the Birmingham Royal Ballet first appeared. Faithful to the original Petipa choreography, he was influenced, too, by later productions – Diaghilev's Ballets Russes version, for instance, and Nikolai Sergeiev's staging for the Vic-Wells (later Royal) Ballet. So, BRB's current production at Sadler's Wells offers a pedigree that goes back to the very heart of Russian classical ballet – and all of the demands that go with that. To say that Sleeping Beauty is a challenge for any company i...
Ernest Beaux is known for Chanel No5, the most famous perfume in the world. But the man himself remains in the shadows, a name less well known than some of the other personalities in Chanel’s circle: Stravinsky, Diaghilev & Nijinsky of the Ballets Russes, and Winston Churchill, to name a few.
The pianist Alice Sara Ott, barefoot and wearing a silver bracelet, was smiling and singing to herself the other day as she practiced a jazzy passage