The Ballets Russes (French: [balɛ ʁys]) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours...
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Original Ballet Russe, originally named Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, a ballet company established in 1931 as a successor to the Ballets Russes; closed...
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Sergei Diaghilev (category Ballets Russes and descendants)
Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers...
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Russian ballet in turn moved back to France, where the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev and its successors were particularly influential. Soon ballet spread...
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Cocteau. The ballet was composed in 1916–17 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered on Friday, May 18, 1917, at the Théâtre du Châtelet...
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the Ballets Russes collaborated on several productions. Pablo Picasso's Cubist sets and costumes were used by Sergei Diaghilev in the Ballets Russes's Parade...
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aspects of the so-called ‘Russian ballet . This was not a mere theatrical group that staged ballets, no, Ballets Russes was a symbol of cultural and art...
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The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de...
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Ballets Russes is a 2005 American feature documentary film about the dancers of the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo. It was directed by Dayna Goldfine and...
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Michel Fokine (redirect from Ballets by Michel Fokine)
joined Wassily de Basil's offshoot of the Ballets Russes, which was eventually named the Original Ballet Russe. Among the new works Fokine created during...
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productions by the Russian ballet company Ballets Russes had a large influence on fashion design in Paris. Designers incorporated ballet-inspired themes in their...
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The Firebird (redirect from Firebird (ballet))
his independent ballet company, the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky to orchestrate music by Chopin for the ballet Les Sylphides, and...
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Vaslav Nijinsky (redirect from Ballets by Vaslav Nijinsky)
of colorful Russian ballets and operas, works mostly new to the West, was a great success. The Paris seasons of the Ballets Russes were an artistic and...
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Léonide Massine (redirect from Ballets by Léonide Massine)
joined Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes. From 1915 to 1921 Massine was the principal choreographer of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Following the departure...
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George Balanchine (redirect from Les Ballets)
to join the Ballets Russes as a choreographer. Balanchine was 21 at the time and became the main choreographer for the most famous ballet company. Sergei...
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their Ballets Russes partnership dissolved. After working desperately to keep ballet alive in Monte Carlo, in 1937 Blum and former Ballets Russes choreographer...
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Bronislava Nijinska (redirect from Ballets by Bronislava Nijinska)
became a member of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. For her dance solo Nijinska created the role of Papillon in Carnaval, a ballet written and designed by Michel...
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Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. University of Chicago Press. Victoria Tennant Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, University...
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Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) (redirect from Scheherazade (ballet))
original ballet adaptation of Scheherazade premiered on June 4, 1910, at the Opéra Garnier in Paris by the Ballets Russes. The choreography for the ballet was...
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Irina Baronova (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
Russian ballet dancers Kisselgoff, Anna (2 July 2008). "Irina Baronova, Ballet Star, Dies at 89". The New York Times. p. B7. "Ballets Russes", The Age...
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Les Sylphides (category Ballets Russes productions)
Sylphides, what we consider the work was premiered by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes on 2 June 1909 at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. The Diaghilev premiere...
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René Blum (impresario) (redirect from Rene Blum (ballet))
where Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes was based. In 1931, Blum was hired by Louis II, Prince of Monaco, to create a ballet company that would continue...
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Anna Pavlova (category Ballets Russes dancers)
ballerina. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, but is most recognized for creating the...
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Alicia Markova (category Ballets Russes dancers)
choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely...
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Pierre Monteux (category Ballet conductors)
engagements in 1907. He came to prominence when, for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company between 1911 and 1914, he conducted the world premieres of Stravinsky's...
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1740s. The Ballets Russes was a ballet company founded in the 1909 by Sergey Diaghilev, an enormously important figure in the Russian ballet scene. Diaghilev...
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Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) (category Ballets Russes productions)
Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet...
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Хохлова; 17 June 1891 – 11 February 1955) was a Russian ballet dancer in the Ballets Russes, directed by Sergei Diaghilev and based in Paris. There she...
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List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky (redirect from Ballets by Igor Stravinsky)
the Ballets Russes ballet company. Diaghilev was impressed enough that he commissioned Stravinsky to write some arrangements for the 1909 ballet season...
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Петрушка) is a ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1911 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original...
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