Information about Ballets Russes

There was also the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo from 1932 to 1963''

The Ballets Russes (French for The Russian Ballets) 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.

The ballet company and its composers

The company consisted of 13 members 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

Russian Ballet, by August Macke (1912). The ballet being danced appears to be Carnaval.

See also:

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)

External links

Danza Ballet: Especial The Ballet Russes
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.

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