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    advertised as Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghileff.) In English, the company is now commonly referred to as "the Ballets Russes", although in the early...
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    company Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (with a plural name) was formed in 1932 after the death of Sergei Diaghilev and the demise of Ballets Russes. Its director...
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  • Original Ballet Russe (originally named Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil...
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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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    productions of operas. René Blum was retained to found the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. The "Golden Age" of the Salle Garnier has passed, since small...
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    García-Márques, The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, 1932-1952 (New York: Knopf, 1990). "Blum Ballet Sold to Company Here...
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  • Richard Thomas (dancer) (category American ballet teachers)
    Billion Dollar Baby. During his early career with the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and Ballet Theatre, Thomas met fellow dancer Barbara Fallis, whom...
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    Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo (The Monte Carlo Ballet) is a classical ballet company established in 1985 by the Princess of Hanover in accordance with the...
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  • 1947 Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, a ballet company created by members of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in 1937; closed in 1968 Ballets Russes (film)...
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  • Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Oxford University 1989, reprint Da Capo Press). Vincente García-Márquez, The Ballets Russes. Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte...
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    the French Croix de Guerre. He became director of plays and operettas at Monte Carlo in 1924, where Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes was based. In 1931...
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    Irina Baronova (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    ballerinas in the newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. During their first season in London with the Ballets Russes, English critic Arnold Haskell...
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    Denham, René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil formed the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, a successor to Ballets Russes. The new company hired Leonide Massine...
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    director at the Monte Carlo Opera, along with financier Serge Denham, founded the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in 1931. The ballet gave its first performance...
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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...
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    created ballet sequences for Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges with singers of the Monte Carlo Opera and dancers from the Ballets Russes for the...
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    Alicia Markova (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    London in search of new talent for his ballet company. He invited her to join the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo, which she did in 1925, one month after...
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    The Firebird (redirect from L'Oiseau de feu)
    Swedish Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, and the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. In 1935 and 1940, Wassily de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo revived...
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  • Étienne de Beaumont and costumes executed by Barbara Karinska, it was first presented by the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 5...
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    George Zoritch (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    Wayback Machine. Vicente Garcia-Márquez, The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, 1932-1952 (New York: Knopf, 1990), pp. 158-159...
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  • sections relatively intact. The original ballet was choreographed by Agnes de Mille for the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, a dance company that moved to the United...
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    Hélène Kirsova (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo 1932–1952, Alfred A Knopf, New York, NY, USA, 1990. Kathrine Sorley Walker, De Basil's...
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    Zizi Jeanmaire (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    ballerina of the Nouveau Ballet de Monte Carlo in 1946, and danced during the last season of Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in London in 1947...
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    Raven Wilkinson (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    Wilkinson became a ballet fan at a young age, after seeing Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo perform Coppelia. Her mother, who had studied ballet in Chicago, took...
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    Yvonne Craig (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    1954 and at 17 years of age, Craig joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as its youngest corps de ballet member. She was a professional ballerina with...
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    Goldie Hawn (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo production of The...
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    Cyd Charisse (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    studied ballet in Los Angeles with Adolph Bolm and Bronislava Nijinska, and at 14, she auditioned for and subsequently danced in the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo...
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    Modernisation of Ballet. Routledge. ISBN 9781134873074. Tennant, Victoria; Baronova, Irina (2014-10-15). Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. University...
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    Sono Osato (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
    in Monte Carlo, they attended a performance of Cléopâtre by Sergei Diaghilev's famous Ballets Russes company, which inspired Osato to start ballet classes...
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    orchestrated by Hector Berlioz. The ballet premiered in Monte Carlo on 19 April 1911, produced by the Ballets Russes ballet company. Michel Fokine was the...
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