Premiered just before the revolution, Parade was Les Ballets Russes' most radical work. This dazzling update, with a robot politician and a silver wall-walker, captures its spirit " and the horrors that followedMany of the ballets that Serge Diaghilev commissioned between 1909 and 1927 have been lost, and many of the surviving ones are creakily showing their age. Yet the legend of Les Ballets Russes as one of the cre…
