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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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Balanchine's "Apollo" was first performed by Diaghilev's Ballet Russes in 1928. Directed by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, the 2005 film tells the story of the famous Ballet Russes company, including its golden era in the 1930s and '40s and its split into rival companies. How can you resist a ballet inspired by Jean Cocteau, whose curtain, costumes and decor were originally designed by Picasso and originally performed by Dyagilev's Ballet russes, with choreography by Massin, all of it accompanied by the sounds of gunshots, sirens, and a typewriter |
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