SINGAPORE -- One hundred years ago, Vaslav Nijinsky performed the ''Danse Siamoise'' with the Ballets Russes at the Paris Opera. Part of the ballet ''Les Orientales,'' the dance was created by Michel Fokine and is believed to have been inspired by the performance of a Thai classical troupe, the Nai But Mahin Dance Company, that Fokine had seen in...

Triple or quadruple bills of ballets created between 1909 and 1929 for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes are not uncommon. All the more remarkable then that Ballet West's current ''Treasures of the Ballets Russes'' triple bill proves the most stimulating Diaghilev anthology I have seen in more than 30 years. Unlike most such programs, it omits the works...

The Stravinsky score ''Le Sacre du Printemps'' (''The Rite of Spring,'' 1913), once notorious as the most aggressively difficult piece of music in the repertory, has now become familiar. One excellent way to hear it anew is to experience it in its original context as the accompaniment to the ballet Nijinsky choreographed for Diaghilev's Ballets...