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    The Ballets Suédois (French pronunciation: [sɥe.dwa]) was a predominantly Swedish dance ensemble based in Paris that, under the direction of Rolf de Maré...
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    Dardel and Rolf de Maré became friends. Maré would later create the Ballets Suédois, which performed in Paris between 1920 and 1925. The friendship benefited...
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    1920s also marked a renewal in ballet. The Ballets Russes were based in Paris during this time. In 1921 the Ballets suédois offered L'Homme et son désir...
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    Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris as a prologue and entr'acte for the Ballets Suédois production of Relâche, based on a book by Francis Picabia, which had...
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    Rolf de Maré (category Ballet impresarios)
    called Rolf de Mare, was a Swedish art collector and leader of the Ballets Suédois in Paris in 1920–25. In 1931 he founded the world's first research...
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    the music for Cocteau's ballet Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, which was produced by the Ballets suédois, the rival to the Ballets Russes. Cocteau had originally...
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    the Ballets Suédois.[citation needed] Picabia commissioned filmmaker René Clair to create a cinematic entr'acte to be shown during the ballet's intermission...
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    immigrant to America who becomes a film star. The work, written for the Ballets suédois, lasts about 16 minutes. It was orchestrated by Charles Koechlin and...
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    La création du monde (category Ballets by Darius Milhaud)
    a ballet in six continuous parts. The work was commissioned by the Ballets suédois, a ballet company which was contemporary to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes...
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  • Jean Börlin (category Swedish male ballet dancers)
    the newly formed Ballets suédois by Rolf de Maré. This marked his first steps as a choreographer; the vast majority of Ballets suédois choreographies bear...
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    1925. Antheil was asked to make his Paris debut at the opening of the Ballets suédois, an important Paris social event. He programmed several recent compositions...
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  • short film to be shown as the entr'acte of their Dadaist ballet Relâche for Ballets suédois. The result became known as Entr'acte (1924) and featured...
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    Roger Désormière (category Ballet conductors)
    experience was largely with the Ballets suédois and Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He was conductor of the Ballets suédois's premiere of Relâche (1924)...
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    the future Scandinavian Ballets, which will later become the Ballets suédois. Rolf de Maré, who was an admiror of the Ballets Russes, and was eager to...
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  • Les mariés de la tour Eiffel (category Ballets by Georges Auric)
    commission to Jean Cocteau and Georges Auric, from Rolf de Maré of the Ballets suédois. Cocteau's original title for his scenario was The Wedding Party Massacre...
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  • film Entr'acte. Shown between the acts of Satie's ballet Relâche performed by the Ballets suédois in 1924, the film, featuring a scenario by Dadaist...
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  • the ballet scene in the early 1920s, identifies a major competitor to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. She characterizes Ballets suédois (Swedish ballet) led...
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  • L'Homme et son désir (category Ballets by Darius Milhaud)
    with a choreography by the Ballets suédois under the orchestral direction of Jean Börlin. Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht. The ballet is composed of eight parts...
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    de Maré in 1887 and was the mother of Rolf de Maré, founder of the Ballets suédois. After divorcing de Maré in 1906, Ellen married the art historian Johnny...
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    Germaine Tailleferre (category French ballet composers)
    Harp Concertino, the ballets Le marchand d'oiseaux (the most frequently performed ballet in the repertoire of the Ballets suédois during the 1920s), La...
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    in 1933. On 4 December 1924 the Ballets Suédois production of Francis Picabia's Relâche, described by him as a ballet instantanéist was premiered in the...
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  • Rhapsody was adapted as a ballet, La Nuit de St Jean, choreographed by Jean Börlin. It was first performed by Ballets Suedois in Paris in October 1920...
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  • Les Ballets Russes and Ballets suédois as exiled dance companies representing vastly the culture of their countries, he named the company Les Ballets Persans...
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    Puiforcat. The choreographed scenes were provided by Jean Börlin and the Ballets Suédois. To bind the whole together L'Herbier commissioned the young Darius...
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    under Lois Hutton, Hélène Vanel, and Jean Borlin, lead dancer of the Ballet suédois. In 1928, she joined "Les Six de rythme et couleur," a commune of six...
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  • other important collections. She also worked as set designer for the Ballets suédois, for example with the set for Marchand d'Oiseux 1923. Hélène painted...
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    a stay in Paris 1920, he wrote the dance drama Maison de Fous for Ballets Suédois. He developed his own avant-gardism during his studies in Stockholm...
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    big commission from Rolf de Maré of the Ballets suédois; this resulted in his final compositions, the ballet Relâche and the score for its accompanying...
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    concerts Ballets suédois, Soirées de Paris, Ballets russes… - Roger Désormière (1898-1963)". Leslie Norton, "Leonide Massine and the 20th Century Ballet", McFarland...
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    New York: Universe Books. 1995. "The Ballets Suédois and the Ballets Russes." In Paris Modern: The Swedish Ballet, 1920–1925, edited by Nancy Van Norman...
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