BALLETS RUSSES

:There was also the ''Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo'' from 1932 to 1963''
The 'Ballets Russes' was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev and resident first in the Théâtre Mogador and Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris; and then in Monte Carlo. It sprang out of the Tsar's Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg, from where all its dancers were associated and trained, and the influence of the great choreographer Marius Petipa. It created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality of Russian ballet compared to what was current in France at the time. It became the most influential ballet company in the 20th century, and that influence, in one form or another, has lasted to this day.

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The ballet company and its composers

Principal productions

End of the Diaghilev era

Ballets Russes performs in Australia

See also

External links

The ballet company and its composers

The company consisted of 13 member all at a very high standards of dance.
The dancers and choreographers associated with it included George Balanchine, Mathilde Kschessinska, Michel Fokine, Vera Karalli, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, Alicia Markova, Léonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Ida Rubinstein and Lydia Lopokova.
Designers included Bakst, Benois, Braque, Gontcharova, Picasso, Dali, Bilibin, Tchelitchev, and Utrillo.
Composers included Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Ravel, Satie, Respighi, Richard Strauss, and, most notably, Igor Stravinsky, whom Diaghilev spotted when he was virtually unknown and whose career he launched.

Principal productions

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'Year'	'Title'	'Composer'	'Choreographer'	'Set and costume'
1909	''Le Pavillon d'Armide''	Nikolai Tcherepnin	Michel Fokine	Alexandre Benois
1909	''Prince Igor''	Alexander Borodin	Michel Fokine	Nicholas Roerich
1909	''Cléopatre''	Anton Arensky	Michel Fokine	Léon Bakst
1910	''The Firebird''	Igor Stravinsky	Michel Fokine	Alexandre Golovine, Léon Bakst
1910	''Schéhérazade''	Rimsky-Korsakov	Michel Fokine	Léon Bakst
1910	''Carnaval''	Robert Schumann	Michel Fokine	Léon Bakst
1911	''Petrushka''	Igor Stravinsky	Michel Fokine	Alexandre Benois
1911	''Le Spectre de la Rose''	Carl Maria von Weber	Michel Fokine	Léon Bakst
1912	''L'après-midi d'un faune''	Claude Debussy	Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky	Léon Bakst, Odilon Redon
1912	''Daphnis et Chloé''	Maurice Ravel	Michel Fokine	Léon Bakst
1912	''Le Dieu Bleu ''	Reynaldo Hahn	Michel Fokine	Léon Bakst
1912	''Thamar''	Mily Balakirev	Michel Fokine	Léon Bakst
1913	''Jeux''	Claude Debussy	Vaslav Nijinsky	Léon Bakst
1913	''The Rite of Spring''	Igor Stravinsky	Vaslav Nijinsky	Nicholas Roerich
1913	''Tragédie de Salomè''	Florent Schmitt	Boris Romanov	Sergey Sudeykin
1914	''La légende de Joseph''	Richard Strauss	Michel Fokine	Léon Bakst
1914	''Le Coq d'Or''	Rimsky-Korsakov	Michel Fokine	Natalia Goncharova
1915	''Soleil de Nuit''	Rimsky-Korsakov	Léonide Massine	Mikhail Larionov
1917	''Parade''	Erik Satie	Léonide Massine	Pablo Picasso
1919	''La boutique fantastique''	Gioachino Rossini, Ottorino Respighi	Léonide Massine	André Derain
1919	''El Sombrero de Tres Picos'' (aka ''Le Tricorne'')	Manuel de Falla	Léonide Massine	Pablo Picasso
1920	''Le chant du rossignol''	Igor Stravinsky	Léonide Massine	Henri Matisse
1920	''Pulcinella''	Igor Stravinsky	Léonide Massine	Pablo Picasso
1921	''Chout''	Sergei Prokofiev	Mikhail Larionov	Mikhail Larionov
1921	''Sleeping Princess''	Pyotr Tchaikovsky	Marius Petipa	Léon Bakst
1922	''Renard''	Igor Stravinsky	Bronislava Nijinska	Mikhail Larionov
1923	''Les Noces''	Igor Stravinsky	Bronislava Nijinska	Natalia Goncharova
1924	''Les Biches''	Francis Poulenc	Bronislava Nijinska	Marie Laurencin
1924	''Les Fâcheux''	Georges Auric	Bronislava Nijinska	Georges Braque
1924	''Le train bleu''	Darius Milhaud	Bronislava Nijinska	Laurens (scene), Coco Chanel (costumi), Pablo Picasso (fondali)
1925	''Les matelots''	Georges Auric	Léonide Massine	Pruna
1926	''Jack in the Box''	Erik Satie	George Balanchine	André Derain
1927	''La chatte''	Henri Sauguet	George Balanchine	Antoine Pevsner
1927	''Mercure''	Erik Satie	Léonide Massine	Pablo Picasso
1927	''Pas d'acier''	Sergei Prokofiev	Léonide Massine	George Jaculov
1928	''Apollon musagète''	Igor Stravinsky	George Balanchine	Bauschant (scene), Coco Chanel (costumi)
1929	''Le fils prodigue''	Sergei Prokofiev	George Balanchine	Georges Rouault

End of the Diaghilev era

After Diaghilev's death in 1929 the company's property was claimed by creditors, and the dancers were scattered. In the subsequent years, the company (in name only) was revived as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (with which the names of George Balanchine and Tamara Toumanova are associated) and as the Original Ballet Russe.

Ballets Russes performs in Australia

Ballets Russes companies performed in Australia between 1938 and 1946. Max Dupain, Australian photographer, took photographs of the principal dancers during this period. (See external link below)

See also

★ Serge Diaghilev

★ Mir Iskusstva

★ Igor Stravinsky

★ Vaslav Nijinsky

★ ''The Rite of Spring''

★ Théâtre Mogador

External links

★ Ballet Russes (2005), documentary covering the history of the Ballet Russe from its inception through to the end, featuring many interviews with surviving dancers of the company - IMDB listing

★ Ballets Russes Australian tours (1936 - 1940) / AustraliaDancing

★ The Ballets Russes in Australasia, 1936-1940 / National Library of Australia performing arts collection

★ Ballets Russes project / National Library of Australia

★ The Ballets Russes in Australasia, 1936-1940 - a list of holdings from the National Library of Australia (including links to digitised collection items)

★ Max Dupain's Dancers 1938-1946 Collection, National Library of Australia

★ : J. M. Barrie and the Russian Dancers - Article by Robert Greenham about J. M. Barrie's play 'The Truth about the Russian Dancers' and his friendships with the prima ballerinas of Ballets Russes, Lydia Lopokova and Tamara Karsavina.