Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes: Art review

About halfway through the National Gallery of Art's new exhibition "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes" the visitor learns that the company only danced Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography of the "Rite of Spring" nine times, which is something of a shock. The legend of its riotous premiere before a deeply divided Parisian audience, and the collective memory of Stravinsky's score as one of the foundational works of musical modernism, leaves one expecting it to have been a staple of the Ballets Russes rep...