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	Chiriaeff, Ludmilla
		Popularly considered the godmother of BALLET in the province of Québec, Chiriaeff's influence as a director and educator had a significant impact on the growth of dance in Canada.
		Les Ballets Chiriaeff, created in 1955 to fulfil TV commitments, evolved into Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 1958.
		After retiring from the artistic direction of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 1974 to expand her schools, she introduced intensive ballet programs into all levels of the provincial educational system including Montréal's Pierre Laporte Secondary School (1975), CEGEP du Vieux Montréal (1979), and École Laurier for elementary school children (1986).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001596 (717 words)

	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 Théâtre Mogador, Paris; and then in Monte Carlo.
		It became the most influential ballet company in 20th century, and that influence, in one form or another, has lasted to this day.
		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 (330 words)

	Ballet-Dance Magazine - A review of 'Irina: Ballet, Life and Loves'
		Ballet lessons with a local teacher convinced her mother that Irina had exceptional talent, and the family found ways and means to move to Paris.
		She and her two teen-aged colleagues were hired by George Balanchine in 1931 as ballerinas for Les Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, a new enterprise co-directed by Rene Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil.
		One is struck by her celebration of loyalties—to her Russian heritage, to the world of ballet that gave her so many achievements, to all the friends she made as an artist, a colleague and a confidante.
	www.ballet-dance.com /200603/articles/Baranova200601.html (1306 words)

	Andros on Ballet - Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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)

	Picasso's designs for Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes
		However, it was an inspiring and appropriate venue for an exhibition of one of the finest collaborative projects in the arts in the early 20th century.
		The Russian impresario's greatest achievement was as founder of Les Ballets Russes, which exerted a profound influence on dancing, music and the visual arts.
		Les Ballets Russes (1911-29) began as a series of concerts of Russian music in Paris; in 1909, he organised a Russian ballet company to travel to France.
	www.studio-international.co.uk /reports/balletrusse.asp (593 words)

	History of the Ballets Russes
		The Ballets Russes burst upon the consciousness of Western culture like an explosion of fireworks when it opened in Paris in May of 1909, at the Chatelet Theater.
		The power of the Ballets Russes stemmed from the collaboration of a remarkable creative team and the masterful way they fused musical composition, painting and costume design in performances by dancers who connected classical ballet traditions with innovative choreography.
		Ballets were choreographed by Leonide Massine, Serge Lifar, Nijinska, and Georges Balanchine, danced by Russians, among them Toumanova, Danilova, Lopokova, Doubrovska, and Woidzikowsky.
	www.ballets-russes.com /history.html (650 words)

	ArtsAlive.ca - Dance : Dance 101
		Adage: (French) In ballet, a slow section of a pas de deux or an exercise in a dance class focussing on slow, controlled movements that highlight balance and extension, and require strength and poise.
		Ballet techniques: There are several different ballet techniques or methods, where students learn a set syllabus according to their level and complete yearly exams.
		Romantic Ballet: The romantic era of ballet lasted from the early to mid-19 th century and is often referred to as ballet's "golden age".
	www.artsvivants.ca /en/dan/dance101/glossary.asp (4516 words)

	Alicia Markova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the age of eight, Marks was given ballet lessons to correct supposed problems with her legs and feet.
		Markova appeared in ballets around the world, but is remembered mostly for her Giselle, as well as for The Dying Swan and Les Sylphides.
		During the Second World War she re-formed Les Ballets Russes in the United States and also appeared in Hollywood movies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alicia_Markova (368 words)

	Dance and the Ballets Russes
		The ballet was bought by the Mariinsky, but left unstaged until Mikhail Fokin, a brilliant young choreographer and balletmeister there came across it, staging a segment of it as a graduation performance for the students of the Imperial Ballet School.
		From 1932 to 1937 he was the chief choreographer of the Colonel de Basil Ballets Russes, a successor company, before leaving with a group of discontented dancers to start his own troupe, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
		Altogether, the choreographers and dancers of the Ballets Russes overturned many of the static conventions of classical Ballet, and ushered in the era of modern dance while preserving a sense of tradition and the heritage of the Russian ballet school.
	www.ballets-russes.com /dance.html (1286 words)

	Theremin Vox - Ballets Russes
		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 at the time.
		Ballets Russes was established by the impresario Serge Diaghilev in 1909 who ran it until his death in 1929.
		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).
	www.thereminvox.com /article/articleview/89 (243 words)

	the Arts Centre - Revolutions
		Mikhail Fokine was one of the Ballets Russes’ first star choreographers, helping to revolutionise the look and feel of ballet in the early 20th century.
		Serge Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet) made their debut in the West in Paris in 1909 and caused a sensation owing to the boldness of their movement style and musical compositions, and their extraordinarily vivid and exotic sets and costumes.
		Les Sylphides was part of The Australian Ballet’s inaugural national season of 1962/63, in a production by Peggy van Praagh.
	www.theartscentre.net.au /whats-on_detail.aspx?view=297 (574 words)

	Broad Street Review
		Ballet’s imperial roots made its practitioners (rightly) fearful of communism, so after 1917 Russian dancers, teachers and choreographers fled to Paris, Monte Carlo, London, Berlin and other cities, bringing their culture and supporters with them.
		The ballet schools of Paris and London then provided a steady supply of Russian emigré girls and boys who were culturally destined to become potential virtuoso dancers despite their poverty.
		Today’s dancers would have to be trained technically and artistically in the manner of the Ballets Russes, which is to say in the Old Russian classical style, pre-Soviet/Vaganova, with all the exaggerated expression of silent movies, pantomime and histrionic theater, with the glamour and style of the movies of that time.
	www.broadstreetreview.com /article.php?idc=5&ida=94 (1566 words)

	Ballet Russes Book Review
		PARIS, 2 April 2000 - Lynn Garafola is a widely published dance critic and historian, author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and, according to Yale University Press, one of the foremost authorities on the period.
		The opening chapter, by Evgenia Egorova (would she be any relation to Liubov Egorova, the great Russian dancer and teacher who moved to Paris with the Ballets Russes, but who never had children, dying alone here in 1972 ?), is of a certain interest, but difficult to read because of the stilted translation.
		Les Sylphides, regularly danced by most classical companies around the world was recently programmed in Paris not so long ago, as well as the complete version of Nijinska's Les Biches, and her entertaining Le Train Bleu.
	www.culturekiosque.com /dance/reviews/rherusse.html (1120 words)

	Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev
		A must for balletomanes, here is a portrait of Serge Diaghilev, the genius behind the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo--the legendary troupe that set the standard for ballet for generations.
		He decided that the ballet needed revitalizing but his unconventional ideas were not appreciated in Russia and he was obliged to go to France to mount the new ballets which fired his imagination.
		Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev then appeared often in Paris, London and other European cities, and later America.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/d/diaghilev_sergei_pavlovich.htm (797 words)

	Encyclopédie :: encyclopedia : Théâtre Mogador (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Le Théâtre Mogador, fondé en 1913, est une salle de spectacles parisienne située dans le 9e arrondissement.
		La salle se nomme d'abord le Palace Theatre puis prend le nom de Mogador (l'ancien nom de la ville d'Essaouira au Maroc).
		Au cours des années 1920, la salle accueille les Ballets russes de Diaghilev et, en séances d'après-midi, les « Thés Mogador », des après-midi musicaux.
	www.encyclopedie.cc /Th%c3%a9%c3%a2tre_Mogador (174 words)

	Making Connections
		For the next 20 years, Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev were a major force in moving ballet to a new artistic level and to new levels of public acceptance.
		Many major ballet dancers and choreographers were immediately recruited by Diaghilev for his troupe: Nijinsky, Balanchine, Massine, Fokine and Pavlova, all reached their peak performances in the Ballets Russes.
		The Ballets Suedois premiered a number of modern works, such as Erik Satie's Relâche and works by Honegger and other members of the "Group of 6." During the twenties, between the Ballets Russes and the Ballet Suedois, it was a time when the dance was king in Paris.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/ballet/swedes/makingconn_swed.html (1350 words)

	What's On - Event Details - The Arts Centre - the home of the performing arts in Melbourne
		Mikhail Fokine was one of the Ballets Russes’ first star choreographers, helping to revolutionise the look and feel of ballet in the early 20th century.
		Serge Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet) made their debut in the West in Paris in 1909 and caused a sensation owing to the boldness of their movement style and musical compositions, and their extraordinarily vivid and exotic sets and costumes.
		Les Sylphides was part of The Australian Ballet’s inaugural national season of 1962/63, in a production by Peggy van Praagh.
	www.theartscentre.com.au /what's-on/event.aspx?id=306 (386 words)

	Willamette Week \| “Modernizing the Modern” \| October 20th, 2004
		Ballet Biarritz comes to town to reinvent the inventive work of Les Ballets Russes.
		Russian Ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev's landmark company was revolutionary in how classical dance was viewed and performed in the West, and his interaction with the visual arts (sets by Braque, costumes by Picasso and Chanal) broke old barriers within various artistic disciplines.
		Ballet Biarritz's artistic director, Thierry Malandain, continues to push and experiment with ballet, presenting his own contemporary look at Diaghilev's works, re-examining Pulcinella, L'Après-Midi d'un Faune and Le Spectre de la Rose, along with a new staging of Ravel's Boléro.
	wweek.com /story.php?story=5633 (736 words)

	ArtsAlive.ca - Dance : Meet the Artists
		Most of the choreographic works presented by Les Ballets Russes were modernist in style and experimented with new types of movements, themes, sets and décor.
		This dissemination of talent was an important factor in the development of ballet worldwide during the 20th century.
		George Balanchine was invited to establish a ballet company in New York, which eventually became known as the New York City Ballet.
	www.artsalive.ca /en/dan/meet/bios/artistDetail.asp?artistID=37 (372 words)

	Ballet of the Machine Age: Les Noces and the Futurists
		Les Noces' dependence on peasant rituals and vocabulary is integral to the dance's conception and style, since "people living on the land...
		In one reading of Les Noces, the "Wedding Feast" is described as showcasing the irony between "the rowdy self-indulgent conduct of the wedding guests, who are there solely for a good time," and the Bride and Groom, who are living in their own separate world on a raised platform in back of the stage.
		As the ballet ends, a new girl is standing with her face frozen in an expression of fear, chin resting on her fists while her elbows are placed on the back of the Bride's Friends.
	artsci.wustl.edu /~perfhist/spr_07_essays/ballet_of_machine_age.html (4948 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 (1283 words)

	Classical MP3 at eClassical.com - Classical Music Downloads
		Les Ballets Russes in Paris became a sensation at the beginning of the 20th century.
		The Ballets Russes was established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev.
		The 'Russian Ballets' created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality and creativity of the Ballets Russes compared to what was current in France at the time.
	www.eclassical.com /eclassic/eclassical?&song_id=100235&page=more_info (361 words)

	Dolin Anton English
		So, Serge Diaghilev was forced to hire the dancers for his "Les Ballets Russes" from the many countries he was visiting with his dance company and he gave them always Russian names.
		It would be impossible to write about the male stars of the Ballets Russes without revealing that many of them were lovers of the great impresario.
		Thereafter he organized and toured with the ballet-troupe "Stars of Ballet", he worked as choreographer and director of the "Rome Opera Ballet" and he served as artistic adviser to "Les Grands Ballets Canadiens".
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /dolin_anton_english.html (2696 words)

	Ballets Russes
		For these reasons "Ballets Russes" is definitely not to be missed by anyone who cares about ballet or dance in general.
		Nini Theilade as Venus in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's "Bacchanale," choreographed by Leonide Massine, with scenery and costumes by Salvador Dali, circa 1939.
		That 50 years encompassed 20 years of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company and about 15 seasons of relatively interesting new work by the subsequent companies, but the last 15 years were hardly on par with the first 35.
	www.danceinsider.com /f2005/f1026_1.html (924 words)

	ArtsAlive.ca - Dance : Meet the Artists
		Like her older brother, Vaslav Nijinsky, Nijinska was associated with Les Ballets Russes, the company started by Serge Diaghilev that presented modernist and revolutionary dance.
		After she left Les Ballets Russes, Nijinska started several ballet companies and was hired to create or revive her choreography for other groups such as the Markova-Dolin Ballet.
		In the 1960s, the Royal Ballet's Frederick Ashton invited Nijinska to stage Les Biches for his company, thereby launching a period of renewed interest in her choreography.
	www.artsalive.ca /en/dan/meet/bios/artistDetail.asp?artistID=51 (275 words)

	Les Ballets Russes Movie Review (2006) from Channel 4 Film
		When documentary makers Dan Geller and Danya Goldfine were asked to film the first - and so far, only - Ballets Russes Reunion Celebration in 2000, they stumbled on a jewel of an idea for a documentary: a vibrant history of the celebrated company told in both words and dance by the company members themselves.
		Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes was one of the most influential ballet companies of the last century.
		Geller and Goldfine tracked down a surprising number of existing Ballets Russes alumni, from the young Russian émigrés who first filled the company's ranks to the starry-eyed American kids who joined the company as it travelled the States.
	www.channel4.com /apps26/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=154927 (397 words)

	Ottawa XPress - Film - Ballets Russes
		To a tutu, the Ballets Russes dancers refused, yet after six years of hostile receptions in the South, Wilkinson, who stoically recounts her story in the documentary Ballets Russes, was asked to leave the company.
		But the ballet politics, to which the doc devotes too much time, pale in comparison with the extant dance footage and the vivacious personalities of the surviving dancers, many of whom were interviewed by the filmmakers at a Ballets Russes reunion in New Orleans.
		I think "Les Ballets Russes" could have benefited from a bit more polish in the editing dept. but otherwise it was flawless and informative.
	www.ottawaxpress.ca /film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=7939 (869 words)

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