Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Performances in the Ballets Russes of Serge de Diaghilev (1909-1929) transmute by some mysterious process into events legendary proportions. And Nijinsky’s jump in ‘Le Spectre de la Rose’ more than most.
Here Marie Rambert recollects the jump - consciously, I think, making a distinction between a factual but a poetic judgement.
Of the company in general, it is widely said that the corps were often of a fairly ordinary standard.
What is your sense or judgment of the standard of the company in performance?
Performances in the Ballets Russes of Serge de Diaghilev (1909-1929) transmute by some mysterious process into events legendary proportions. And Nijinsky’s jump in ‘Le Spectre de la Rose’ more than most.
Here Marie Rambert recollects the jump - consciously, I think, making a distinction between a factual but a poetic judgement.
Of the company in general, it is widely said that the corps were often of a fairly ordinary standard.
What is your sense or judgment of the standard of the company in performance?
