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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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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Léonide Massine (redirect from Ballets by Léonide Massine)
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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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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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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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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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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George Balanchine (redirect from Les Ballets)
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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René Blum (impresario) (redirect from Rene Blum (ballet))
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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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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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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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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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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Gaîté Parisienne (redirect from Ballets by Étienne de Beaumont)
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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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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Bronislava Nijinska (redirect from Ballets by Bronislava Nijinska)
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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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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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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Tamara Tchinarova (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
ballet companies formed in Europe. They included Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, Les Ballets 1933 and Colonel Wassily de Basil's Original Ballet Russe....
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Raven Wilkinson (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
classical ballet company. Wilkinson broke the color barrier in 1955 when she signed a contract to dance full-time with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She...
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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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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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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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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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Marc Platt (dancer) (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
Pasadena, California, he was one of the original members of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, performing under the name Platoff. While with the company, Platt...
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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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Wakefield Poole (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
Jacksonville, Florida, where his family later moved. He joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1957 and later became a dancer, choreographer, and director...
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Tatiana Riabouchinska (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
obituary (28 August 2000). Amanda. "Ballets Russes", The Age (17 July 2005) Kathrine Sorley Walker, De Basil's Ballets Russes (London: Hutchinson, 1982). Larry...
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