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...

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...

Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers...

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...

Original Ballet Russe, originally named Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, a ballet company established in 1931 as a successor to the Ballets Russes; closed...

Russian ballet in turn moved back to France, where the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev and its successors were particularly influential. Soon ballet spread...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

his independent ballet company, the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky to orchestrate music by Chopin for the ballet Les Sylphides, and...

joined Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes. From 1915 to 1921 Massine was the principal choreographer of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Following the departure...

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...

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...

Russian-French ballet dancer and dance teacher, who danced with the Ballets Russes and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo companies. After retiring from her ballet career...

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...

their Ballets Russes partnership dissolved. After working desperately to keep ballet alive in Monte Carlo, in 1937 Blum and former Ballets Russes choreographer...

productions by the Russian ballet company Ballets Russes had a large influence on fashion design in Paris. Designers incorporated ballet-inspired themes in their...

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...

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...

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...

Diaghilev soon after, who commissioned the composer to write three ballets for the Ballets Russes's Paris seasons: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The...

choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely...

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...

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...

punches at its own conventions. First among these was the Ballets Russes period, when ballet—ballet—lassoed the avant-garde art movement and, with works such...

Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. University of Chicago Press. Victoria Tennant Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, University...

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...

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...