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    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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  • Ballets Russes is a 2005 American feature documentary film about the dancers of the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, which split into the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    the Ballets Russes seasons in London extensively between 1909 and 1921. No film exists of Nijinsky dancing; Diaghilev never allowed the Ballets Russes to...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Ballets Russes (film) and Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song). Something Ventured’s North American distribution partner is Zeitgeist Films....
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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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    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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    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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    Victoria Tennant (category English film actresses)
    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    George Zoritch (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    Diaghilev's famous Ballets Russes. An engagement with Nijinska's Ballets de Paris in 1935 led to his long-time membership in the two Ballets Russes offshoots formed...
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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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    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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    "neoclassical ballet" appears in the 1920s with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, in response to the excesses of romanticism and post-romantic modernism...
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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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    Le Fils prodigue, Op. 46 (Russian: Блудный сын) is a ballet created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine to music by Sergei Prokofiev (1928–29)...
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    The Rite of Spring (category Ballets Russes productions)
    unknown composer when Diaghilev recruited him to create works for the Ballets Russes. Le Sacre du printemps was the third such major project, after the acclaimed...
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    Marc Platt (dancer) (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    Hall Ballet for several years, then transitioned to full-time teaching. In 2000, Platt was presented with the Nijinsky Award at the Ballets Russes Reunion...
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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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  • Stanislas Idzikowski (category Ballets Russes dancers)
    1977) was a Polish dancer and ballet master, active in England, and with such historic companies as Pavlova's, Ballets Russes, and Vic-Wells. During his...
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    Nathalie Krassovska (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    with the Bolshoi Ballet; her mother Lydia Krassovska was a dancer with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Young Nathalie began her ballet studies with her grandmother...
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