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	Ballets Russes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ballets Russes was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev and resident first in Paris and then in Monte Carlo.
		The ballet being danced appears to be Petrushka.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballets_Russes (280 words)

	'Ballets Russes' steps lively again on film
		Ballets Russes died in 1962, the victim of changing audience tastes, financial woes and poor management.
		Young, besotted by ballet in general and the Ballets Russes in particular, she shot the footage on the fly from the wings or theater balconies with a wind-up camera.)
		She is especially memorable in "Ballets Russes," both as a luminous young Giselle and a self-possessed elderly woman.
	www.suntimes.com /output/movies/wkp-news-ballet18.html (1020 words)

	Andros on Ballet - Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
		Diaghilev's Ballets Russes was the premier ballet company of Europe from 1909 to 1929.
		The most famous defector was Anna Pavlova who, after her performances with Diaghilev in 1909, engaged some of Ballets Russes' dancers for her own company, although she, Adolph Bolm, and Nicholas Legat had performed many times outside of Russia before dancing with Diaghilev.
		René Blum and Col. de Basil Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo company was about to declare bankruptcy when an American impresario, Sol Hurok, took over the management in 1934 and booked the company in the USA at the St. James Theatre.
	michaelminn.net /andros/history/ballet_russe_de_monte_carlo.htm (1897 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Film - Dance to the Music of Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A rival troupe, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, was formed in 1938 under the direction of René Blum (de Basil’s former partner) and Léonine Massine, one of Diaghilev’s former dancers and choreographers.
		Ballet was hardly shielded from the events of the age: the Depression, the Second World War, the birth of the civil rights movement and the ascendance of popular culture (many dancers were recruited by Hollywood).
		The still-surviving Ballets Russes members — all of whom continue to be involved in dance in some fashion — retain the effervescence that once lent their performances such allure.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/film/ballets.html (1018 words)

	The Ballets Russes
		As a ballets enthusiast, Benois could envisage the creative possibilities of staging such a project, at the same time showing awareness of the vast choreographic reforms that were being made in dance by the dancer and choreographer Michel Fokine.
		The innovation of the Ballets Russes cannot be stated enough, a totally new ballet art was being created in choreography, in stage and costume design, in music, in presentation, in philosophy and even in the administration of the company.
		Unusually, the Ballets Russes was an independent company not affiliated to either a theatre or opera house or on the success of a particular star- giving it an artistic freedom and the ability to tour.
	www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk /MultimediaStudentProjects/00-01/9705226m/mmcourse/project/gonch.project/ballets_russes.htm (1535 words)

	Ballet-Dance Magazine - Ballets Russes - film by Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller - film review by Leland Windreich
		“Ballets Russes” is the latest film bound to captivate a mass audience and it does so through its brilliant presentation of a remarkable era in ballet history.
		Within a few years of the demise of the Diaghilev enterprise a dozen “ballet russe” organizations emerged in the European theatres in the 1930s with the purpose of carrying on what had become a significant art movement.
		The first, inaugurated in 1932 as Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, was managed by Rene Blum, director of the Monte Carlo Opera House, with a former Colonel of the Tsar’s Cossacks and erstwhile entrepreneur of a small ballet ensemble, who went by the pseudonym of Vassily de Basil.
	www.ballet-dance.com /200511/articles/BalletsRussesMovie20051000.html (1282 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Review - Ballets Russes
		The infamous “ballet battles” chronicles the role of George Balanchine as ballet master in 1932-1933, when he was pushed out by authoritarian choreographer and director Leonide Massine, and later, the split of the original company into two troupes and the legal battles over the respective companies’ names and personnel.
		After leaving the Ballet Russes in 1950, she danced with the London Festival Ballet until 1960, when she was 42.
		Amazingly, many of the Ballets Russes dancers are still actively engaged in the art of dance, while well into their 70s, 80s, and even 90s.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=505 (1084 words)

	Ballets Russes
		Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was an impresario, the manager of the Ballets Russes that created a sensation in Western Europe in the early years of the 20th century.
		Born in Perm and active as a young man in artistic circles, Diaghilev formed the Ballets Russes in 1909 and ran it until his death in 1929.
		The impact of Ballets Russes on the West stemmed from a number of causes.
	www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr /~esouche/dance/dance1.html (692 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Ballets Russes
		Although "Ballets russes" might sound like a generic term, meaning simply Russian ballets, it actually refers to the ballet company that is the hallmark of twentieth-century theatrical dance.
		Although the first Ballets Russes company was not officially organized until 1911, it dates from 1909, when Diaghilev assembled a group of dancers from the Imperial theaters and charged a brilliant young choreographer, Michel Fokine, to create a repertoire to spotlight Nijinsky's great talent.
		In the Ballets Russes gay men, whatever their nationality, were highly visible and their influence extended outward from ballet into related art forms such as cinema, painting, music, and fashion.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/ballet_russes.html (1259 words)

	Theremin Vox - Sergei Diaghilev
		Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (March 19, 1872 - August 19, 1929), often known as Serge, was a Russian ballet impressario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise.
		This period was of tremendous importance to the development of ballet as a performing art in theatre.
		The artistic director for the Ballets Russes was Leon Bakst, whose connection with Diaghilev extended back to 1898, when he, Diaghilev and Alexander Benois founded the avant-garde group 'World of Art' (Mir Iskusstva).
	www.thereminvox.com /article/view/88/1/30 (437 words)

	Ballets Russes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By 1914, his group had coalesced into the Ballets Russes and propelled such talented artists as composer Igor Stravinsky and dancer/choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky onto the world stage.
		When World War I and the Russian revolution effectively ousted Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes from their homeland, they came to the United States and continued to perform brilliantly.
		Although the Ballets Russes died with Diaghilev in 1929, the legacy he left behind was not so much the performances, but a rich collection of original work from many avant-garde artists who would go on to become acknowledged masters of contemporary art.
	www.worcesterphoenix.com /archive/art/97/09/19/BALLETS_RUSSES.html (747 words)

	Ballets Russes -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The name Ballets Russes had been used by the impresario Sergey Diaghilev for his company, which revolutionized ballet in the first three decades of the 20th century.
		Under the direction of Colonel W. de Basil, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo brought to audiences new compositions by Léonide Massine and George Balanchine, with...
		In Russia, ballet was initially presented as court entertainment in the early 1700s, but by mid-century it had gained popularity at the estates of the wealthy class (see ballet).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9012005 (757 words)

	Ballets Russes \| Art of the Ballets Russes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Performing between 1909 and 1929 under the leadership of Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev, the Ballets Russes was the result of an unparalleled collaboration between pioneering choreographers, dancers, composers, and visual artists who revolutionized ballet, music, and art.
		Art of the Ballets Russes features works from twenty-five productions—including "Petrushka," "Firebird," "Schéhérazade," and "The Sleeping Princess." Spotlighted costumes are posed in choreography from the ballets, and music by celebrated composers who worked with the Ballets Russes is heard throughout the exhibition.
		Art of the Ballets Russes is organized and circulated by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.
	www.artbma.org /exhibitions/ballet_russes/art.html (171 words)

	When Ballet First Came From Russia With Love - New York Times
		LET it be said right out loud that "Ballets Russes," a film that just opened at the Film Forum in Manhattan and will be playing around the country, is a scrumptious chocolate layer cake of a documentary.
		"Ballets Russes" refers to several linked ballet companies, and the catalyst for the film was a 2000 reunion of veterans of the various troupes.
		As the Metropolitan Opera tours and broadcasts did for opera, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo is credited with engendering a love for ballet in American cities large and small.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/30/arts/dance/30rock.html?ex=1288324800&en=0a5b9e43e1406c8f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1049 words)

	Missouri Southern News
		The Ballets Russes had its origin in the early 1900s and its ultimate demise by the late 1920s.
		Diaghilev's company, which originated in Russia although it never performed there, has been called "the progenitor of modern ballet." Many ballet companies of the first half of the 20th century in England, France, Argentina, and elsewhere, were either founded by veterans of the Ballets Russes or were rejuvenated by Ballets Russes alumni.
		In the United States, the Ballets Russes was instrumental in helping to form the New York City Ballet (and, therefore, later companies in the U.S. that recruited dancers from the New York City Ballet).
	www.mssu.edu /pages/news/balletsrusses.htm (319 words)

	Diaghilev's Ballets Russes:Garafola, Lynn:0306808781:eCampus.com
		In the history of twentieth-century ballet no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes.
		Under the direction of impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929), the Ballets Russes radically transformed the nature of ballet -- its subject matter, movement idiom, choreographic style, stage space, music, scenic design, costume, even the dancer s physical appearance.
		Diaghilev's Ballets Russes is the most authoritative history of the company ever written and the first to examine it as a totality -- its art, enterprise, and audience.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0306808781&referrer=yah04 (184 words)

	DanceWorks SideSteps - Ballets Russes, the Massine years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As régisseur (rehearsal director) to the Diaghilev Ballet, Sergei Grigoriev was the most loyal of Diaghilev's colleagues, and he was the only one to remain with the company throughout the twenty years of its existence.
		It is fortunate, therefore, that he recorded his memoires (The Diaghilev Ballet, 1909-1929), reconstructed from some old notebooks in which he had carefully summarized information relating to all the seasons ever given by the Diaghilev ballet.
		This ballet was unique in that in the history of the company, it was only one not seen by Diaghilev.
	www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/companies/balletrusses_massine.htm (942 words)

	ipedia.com: Ballets Russes Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ballet company Ballets Russes created a sensation in Western Europe in the early years of the 20th century, due to the great vitality of Russian ballet, as compared with what was current in France...
		A list of the ballets premiered by Diaghilev include Les Sylphides (1909), The Firebird (1910), Le Spectre de la Rose (1911), Petroushka (1911), Afternoon of a Faun (1912), The Rite of Spring (1913), The Song of the Nightingale (1920) and The Prodigal Son (1929).
		In the subsequent years, the company (in name only) was revived as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and as the Original Ballet Russe.
	www.ipedia.com /ballets_russes.html (297 words)

	Ballets Russes, A Chronology - Dance History
		Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo dancer (and 1928 wife of George Balanchine), Vera Zorina (b.
		January 5 - The Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo participates in the opera season at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo.
		The The Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (Basil) is renamed, Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe
	www.artslynx.org /dance/brchron.htm (1879 words)

	Australia Dancing - Ballets Russes Australian tours (1936 - 1940)
		A number of Ballets Russes companies were formed in the wake of the dissolution of Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russe following his death in 1929.
		The influence of the de Basil Ballets Russes on the development of the arts in Australia was important and long-lasting.
		Kirsova founded the Kirsova Ballet, Borovansky the Borovansky Ballet, Bousloff the West Australian Ballet and Kouznetsova and her colleagues the Polish Australian Ballet.
	www.australiadancing.org /subjects/9.html (948 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Visual Arts - The Visuals of Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the notably unglamorous portrait of the artist printed in the official Ballets Russes theatre program for the 1914 Paris season, Goncharova's eyebrows are raised ironically below the brim of a close-fitting dark hat, her eyes cast sideways as if she had better things to consider than the photographer's lens.
		She caught the attention of Ballets Russes impresario Serge Diaghilev, who routinely commissioned stage and costume design from studio artists, the more cutting-edge the better.
		Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum fascinating little show on Goncharova's Ballets Russes designs for two productions of "Coq" (1914 and 1937) has the benefit of reuniting some of her sketches for the first time in almost a century.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2003/48970_20030610.asp (980 words)

	CriticalDance :: View topic - Ballets Russes - The Film
		So many of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers went on to be some of the most respected teachers of the next generation of dancers.
		There are photos of fabulous Ballet Russe stars as they looked during their careers and as senior, wonderful citizens interviewed for this film.
		Before the Royal Ballet was royal, before the Kirov and the Bolshoi ever toured outside the Soviet bloc, before American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet were more than fledgling projects, the zenith of classical artistry, glamour, success and influence belonged to the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo.
	www.ballet-dance.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=24337 (1693 words)

	The Boston Herald: STAGES: Ballets Russes springs to life in exhibit.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The history of ballet in the 20th century dates to May 1909, when the mysterious Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev brought a company of superb dancers out of St. Petersburg to Paris.
		For the first time, audiences in the West could see ballet as a vigorous art form, freed from the worn-out trappings of 19th-century practices.
		Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova, who later went off on her own, were among the superstars presented by Diaghilev in ballets choreographed by Michel Fokine, followed over two decades by Leonide Massine, Bronislava Nijinska and George Balanchine.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:56441102&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (219 words)

	Ballets Russes Materials at SF PALM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The origins of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo can be traced back to 1909, when Serge Diaghilev signed a contract with the Theatre Chatelet in Paris to present a Russian ballet season.
		Rene Blum formed the Ballet de l'Opera at Monte Carlo and Col. Wassily de Basil and Prince Zeretelli collaborated in the presentation of the Opera Russe in Paris.
		Under the artistic direction of George Kirsta and the general direction of Vova Grigoriev, the company was registered in August 1951 as Universal Ballet, Ltd. It conducted a brief tour of England in the winter of 1951-52 but met with disastrous critical reception and was forced to liquidate due to financial difficulties.
	digilib.nypl.org /dynaweb/dhc/findaid/russesfp/@Generic__BookTextView/112 (840 words)

	BALLETS RUSSES
		A labor of love if ever there was, this documentary is chock-a-block with invaluable footage of historical performances and reminiscences by eminent survivors, gorgeous and awe-inspiring in their unquenchable life force.
		They brought an unknown glamour with them as well, and that quality is the thrilling leitmotif of the film, beginning with the three achingly young "baby ballerinas," Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova, and the darkly aquiline Tamara Toumanova, who thrilled early audiences with their dazzling technique and singular individual styles.
		And how marvelous that so many of these dancers are and were alive to be interviewed for the film, which rather centers around a historic Ballets Russes reunion in New Orleans in 2000, chaired by dance historian extraordinaire Douglas Blair Turnbaugh, who also serves as one of the documentary's producers.
	filmjournal.com /filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001391739 (325 words)

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