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    Léonide Massine (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo choreographers)
    Ballet Russe — but only Massine & Blum's company could be called Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Col. de Basil finally settled on the Original Ballet Russe. The...
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  • Roulette russe (Russian roulette) is the second album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1979 on Philips Records. The album was reissued the following...
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    Vaslav Nijinsky (category Ballets Russes dancers)
    ballet, and already taking starring roles. In 1909, he joined the Ballets Russes, a new ballet company started by Sergei Diaghilev. The impresario took the...
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    Orson Welles", p. 25: French: "L'histoire du scorpion, elle, est d'origine russe.", lit. '"The story of the scorpion is of Russian origin."' Jami (1887)...
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    have noted similarities in how Chekhov and Shimizu use a mixture of light humour as well as an intense depictions of longing. Sakate adapted several of Chekhov's...
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    The Good-Humoured Ladies (Le donne de buon umore) is a ballet with scenery and costumes by Léon Bakst, choreography by Léonide Massine, and music arranged...
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    Lydia Lopokova (category Ballets Russes dancers)
    the Ballets Russes in America, Europe, South America and later in London. She first came to the attention of Londoners in The Good-humoured Ladies in 1918...
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    Info. Retrieved 2 October 2018. Yan Shenkman (22 May 2014). "Le destin russe d'Aznavour". Russia Beyond the Headlines (in French). Retrieved 2 October...
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    the Ballets Russes from 1911 to 1929. She was ballet mistress of the Ballets Russes from 1926 to 1929. She created roles in The Good Humoured Ladies (1917)...
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    Complicity: The Expansion of the Karelian Gulag, 1923-1933, Cahiers du Monde russe, 42/2-4, April–December 2001, pp. 615-48 National Archives of the Republic...
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    Léon Bakst (category Ballets Russes and descendants)
    origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. He designed...
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    those who met him found him to possess obvious intelligence and a sense of humour; they also found him handsome, although of austere appearance. Kafka was...
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    epiphanies, and allusions—as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works. According...
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    Postmodern art, for instance, places a strong emphasis on irony, parody and humour in general; modern art started to develop a more ironic approach to art...
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    (2003): "The Origins of East European Jews" in Russian History/Histoire Russe vol. 30, nos. 1–2, pp. 1–22. Gross, N. (1975): Economic History of the Jews...
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    automatism Surrealist cinema Surrealist music Surrealist techniques Surreal humour Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme London International Surrealist...
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    168–70 Ralston, p.xxxii Bougeault, Alfred (1852). Kryloff, ou Le La Fontaine russe: sa vie et ses fables. Paris: Garnier frères. pp. 30–35. Wikimedia Commons...
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    of representative subjects from women in the workforce to satirise the humour of the local government. This also shared many characteristics with the...
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    characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus. It uses humour– including parody, satire and comedy– to contrast the novel's characters...
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    the original on 12 January 2022. "Captain Underpants — who said toilet humour wasn't funny?". www.ft.com. Retrieved 29 March 2024. "Every Song In Sonic...
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    листи може й вигадані, але вигадані дуже влучно." Ilya Repin- Peindre l'âme Russe, Claude Pommereau (editor), Beaux Arts Editions, Paris, October 2021, p...
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    no sexual hope; which is the play's lament, and the source of the play's humour and comedic tenderness. Norman Mailer wonders if Beckett might be restating...
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  • la propagande russe". Le Figaro (in French). Hory, Julien (4 June 2014). "StopFake, le site ukrainien qui démonte la propagande russe". Libération (in...
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    Alsace. Literate and well-read, she demonstrated a well-developed sense of humour in her letters, and her command of the English language was sufficient to...
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  •  1947–48) Poetry Picasso's written works Ballet designs Picasso and the Ballets Russes Parade The Three-Cornered Hat Pulcinella Le Train Bleu Mercure Museums Musée...
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    in the play LyreBird (Tales of Helpmann), by Tyler Coppin. Business a la Russe. Rawlings/Toyne Drama Company, Criterion Theatre, Sydney, April 1932 Danse...
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    Hansel. Gerald Abraham, on the other hand, praises the vivid humanity and humour of Rimsky's setting, as well as its atmospheric strength. The premiere took...
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    with the Ballets Russes. In June 1922, she appears on the programme of a performance of The Good-Humoured Ladies by the Ballets Russes at Théâtre Mogador...
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  • 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020. BFMTV. "Fort Boyard: un milliardaire russe privatise les lieux pour fêter ses 50 ans". BFMTV (in French). Retrieved...
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    Enrico Cecchetti, and was a prominent member of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from 1913 to 1929. After the disbandment of that company, she taught, choreographed...
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