In the first half of the 20th century the words “ballet” and “Russian” were nearly synonymous. Thanks to the international success
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Sergei Diaghilev was taking the world of ballet by storm, rescuing it for ever from its 19th-century rut as mere light entertainment plonked into the middle of grand opera.