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Ballets Russes: see Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich (syĭrgā` päv`ləvĭch dyä`gĭlyĭf) ..... Click the link for more information. . Ballets RussesBallet company founded in Paris in 1909 by Sergey Diaghilev. Considered the source of modern ballet, the company employed the most outstanding creative talent of the period. Its choreographers included Michel Fokine, Léonide Massine, Bronislava Nijinska, and George Balanchine, and among its dancers were Yekaterina Geltzer, Tamara Karsavina, and Vaslav Nijinsky. Music was commissioned from composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud, Sergey Prokofiev, and Claude Debussy, and ballets featured stage designs by artists Alexandre Benois, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse, and André Derain. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Ballet took its first City Center bow on April 9, 1944, when the theater played host to Sergei Denham's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for a three-week season. Zadoff was among the last dancers to tour the United States with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the troupe that revolutionized and popularized ballet in the early and mid-20th century. The superb documentary Ballets Russes, produced and directed by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, provides an opera-glass view of the dueling Ballets Russes (the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and Colonel de Basil's Original Ballet Russe) that emerged from Serge Diaghilev's legendary troupe. |
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