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Christopher Richard Sandforth Buckle (August 6, 1916 - October 12, 2001) was a lifelong devotee of the ballet, and its liveliest critic. He founded the magazine "Ballet" in 1939, when only 23, and revived it after the war (during which he served with the Scots Guards, being mentioned in despatches in 1944 during the Italy campaign). Between 1948 and 1955 he was ballet critic for The Observer. He organised a number of highly successful exhibitions, including most notably one in 1954 on the life and work of Diaghilev, first at the Edinburgh Festival and then at Forbes House in London. He also organised the quatercentenary Shakespeare exhibition at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1964-5. His publications include the most comprehensive biographies of Nijinsky (1971) and Diaghilev (1979), and he edited several books, including the autobiography of Lydia Sokolova and the selected diaries of Cecil Beaton. Act 4 of Swan Lake: choreography by Petipa and Nureyev, music by Tchaikovsky. ... The Scots Guards is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division, and have a long and proud history stretching back hundreds of years. ... Mentioned in Dispatches (MID) is a military award for gallantry or otherwise commendable service. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Сергей Павлович Дягилев) (March 19, 1872 – August 19, 1929), often known as Serge, was a Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous... Nijinsky can refer to: Vaslav Nijinsky Nijinsky II This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Lydia Sokolova (1896-1974), born in Wanstead as Hilda Munnings, was an English ballerina. ... Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 – January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. ...

Selected writing

• Diaghilev, Atheneum (paperback 1984), ISBN 0689706642
• Nijinsky, Avon Books (paperback 1975), ISBN 0380004593
• Buckle at the Ballet: Selected Criticism, Dance Books (1980), ISBN 0903102536 reviewed in New York Times, August 21, 1981 [1]

External links

• Obituary, Ballet critic who revolutionised exhibition design and wrote biographies of Diaghilev and Nijinsky, The Guardian, October 13, 2001