The scores, by Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel and others, many heavily annotated, give a visceral sense of the working process, McClellan said.
Cumulatively, these objects reveal the Ballets Russes' astounding level of collaboration across artistic mediums, from conception to completed production.
Diaghilev and the artists he worked with dreamed of productions in which music, dance and design, operating equally and at their highest level, would come together to create a triumphal whole.
In 1914, the choreographer Michel Fokine wrote that he imagined this project as the alliance of dancing with the other arts.
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