... be the mainstream art form that it had been in the 1830's and 1840's; it appeared to have lost touch with the modern times. . Indeed, Ballet appeared to be an art form about to die of exhaustion. However, in the early twentieth century, Diaghilev rejuvenated the world of ballet, not only in his ideas, his modernistic approach but also in through the combination of music, dance and visual art. The legacy of the work of "Pulcinella", first performed in 1920 was that it revived the interest in the techniques and interests of the past at a time when it would seem that many artists were more concerned with progress and technical ability than a perspective of history. More, importantly it demonstrated that music can comment itself and come to terms with it's own history, through neo-classicism. This was one of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century, ...

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