Re-Tooling Diaghilev's Most Radical Ballet For 2017

"Parade was advertised as the world’s first cubist ballet - mostly in deference to Picasso's designs, but also as a way of explaining the comic, disconnected logic of its fairground scenario and the clash of musical styles and found noise (pistol shots, sirens) in Satie's score. ... But for National Dance Company Wales (NDCW), it is Diaghilev's relation to the Russian revolution that has provided the starting point of its show P.A.R.A.D.E." Judith Mackrell has a look.