#the ballets russes are this mASSIVE fucking interest i have now thanks to grad school

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i know tumblr is where the niche nerds live, but is it "i have an essay in my soul about The Rite of Spring, probably the most famous ballet of the Ballets Russes, which are their own can of worms honestly but Sergei Diaghilev is my problematic fav and this ballet makes me feel viscerally emotional" where the niche nerds live?

#when i think about how many people studying western music know stravinsky and have never seen the ballet #i want to. i dont know. forcibly sit them all down to watch a reconstruction of nijinsky's choreography #the ballets russes are this mASSIVE fucking interest i have now thanks to grad school #IT IS MULTIMEDIA WEIRD MODERNIST BULLSHIT FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY #AND IT SLAPS SO HARD #THERE ARE 47392048 LAYERS OF COMPLEXITY WITH RESPECT TO RUSSIAN IDENTITY AS RUSSIAN EXPATS IN FRANCE EXOTIFYING THEMSELVES #DIAGHILEV WAS GAY BUT HE WAS ALSO EXTREMELY ABUSIVE AND CONTROLLING TOWARDS HIS BALLERINOS #IT'S SO INTERESTING I READ 1910S NEWSPAPERS FROM FRANCE FOR A PAPER ON THEM IN SCHOOL #TALK 2 ME ABOUT THE BALLETS RUSSES. THANK U GOODNIGHT