Serge Lifar and Suzanne Lorcia (1938) - Fragments of ’Les Sylphides’ and ’The Sleeping Beauty’

There is very little footage of the famed Ballets Russes, particularly before the death of Serge de Diaghilev in 1929 - the impresario had forbidden filming of his company, probably for a variety of obvious reasons. There are really only two examples - Tamara Karsavina performing Mikhail Fokine’s ’The Torch Dance’, filmed in 1909, and amateur film of an outdoor rehearsal of ’Les Sylphides’ with Serge Lifar and the corps de ballet at the ’Fetes de Narcisses’ in Montreux, Switzerland in 1928. After the dea