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Ads by Google Related Topics Ballets Russes Parade ballet Classical ballet      Ballets Russes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The ballet being danced appears to be Petrushka. 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. 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes   (280 words)      The Ballets Russes Correlating with this unusual aesthetic notion was the philosophy of the Ballets Russes. 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. Although the Ballets Russes is known for its varied and sophisticated music, ranging from the composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Strauss and Falla. http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/00-01/9705226m/mmcourse/project/gonch.project/ballets_russes.htm   (1535 words)      Andros on Ballet - Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Diaghilev's Ballets Russes was the premier ballet company of Europe from 1909 to 1929. Serge Lifar, a Russian, whom we associate with the Paris Opera Ballet, was one of the last male stars of the Ballets Russes de Sergei Diaghilev. 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. http://michaelminn.net/andros/history/ballet_russe_de_monte_carlo.htm   (1897 words)      Ballets Russes, A Chronology - Dance History April 26 - Premiere of the ballet Narcisse with choreography by Michel Fokine April 16 - Premiere of the one-act ballet, Papillons with choreography by Michel Fokine June 13 - Premiere of the ballet Petruchka with choreography by Michel Fokine http://www.artslynx.org/dance/brchron.htm   (1879 words)      'Ballets Russes' steps lively again on film She is especially memorable in "Ballets Russes," both as a luminous young Giselle and a self-possessed elderly woman. 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.) If you love ballet, you'll love "Ballets Russes," a tender and illuminating new documentary about the fabled troupe that brought "Giselle," "Rodeo" and hundreds of other ballets to American cities and towns in the 1940s and '50s. http://www.suntimes.com/output/movies/wkp-news-ballet18.html   (1020 words)      Australia Dancing - Ballets Russes Australian tours (1936 - 1940) 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. 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. http://www.australiadancing.org/subjects/9.html   (948 words)      Emanuel Levy : Review - Ballets Russes 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. However, Nathalie Krassovska, who studied in Paris with the “Baby Ballerinas,” came from a family of dancers; her grandmother was a soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet and her mother danced with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=505   (1084 words)      Theremin Vox - Sergei Diaghilev The exotic appeal of the Ballets Russes had an effect on Fauve painters and the nascent Art Deco style. 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). http://www.thereminvox.com/article/view/88/1/30   (437 words)      Ballets Russes 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. 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. Lifar set up his own ballet company and tried to emulate his mentor by employing the skills of artists like Giorgio de Chirico and Alexandre Benois to create imaginative costumes and sets for his own original ballets. http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/archive/art/97/09/19/BALLETS_RUSSES.html   (747 words)      Ballets Russes The impact of Ballets Russes on the West stemmed from a number of causes. 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. 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. http://www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr/~esouche/dance/dance1.html   (692 words)      CBC.ca - Arts - Film - Dance to the Music of Time 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. The original Ballet Russe was formed in 1909 by the fabled Russian-born, Paris-based impresario Serge Diaghilev. After Diaghilev’s death in 1929, the Ballet Russe regrouped under the direction of Colonel Wassily de Basil, a Diaghilev manqué better known for his temper than his artistic vision. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/ballets.html   (1018 words)      Ballets Russes Art of the Ballets Russes 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. 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 is organized and circulated by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. http://www.artbma.org/exhibitions/ballet_russes/art.html   (171 words)      Diaghilev's Ballets Russes:Garafola, Lynn:0306808781:eCampus.com 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. 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. http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=0306808781&referrer=yah04   (184 words)      Ballet-Dance Magazine - Ballets Russes - film by Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller - film review by Leland Windreich 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. Its magnificent ballets were the products of collaboration of a handful of Russian choreographers with the major composers and painters of the era. The ballet russe aesthetic featured narrative ballets, and American audiences began to prefer works which displayed unfettered classical dancing. http://www.ballet-dance.com/200511/articles/BalletsRussesMovie20051000.html   (1282 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. For the next 20 years the Ballets Russes, which never appeared in Russia, became the foremost ballet company in the West. 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... http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9012005   (757 words)      glbtq >> arts >> Ballets Russes 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. 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. http://www.glbtq.com/arts/ballet_russes.html   (1259 words)      Missouri Southern News The Ballets Russes had its origin in the early 1900s and its ultimate demise by the late 1920s. 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). 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. http://www.mssu.edu/pages/news/balletsrusses.htm   (319 words)      When Ballet First Came From Russia With Love - New York Times Until Diaghilev's death in 1929 this was the most famous ballet company in the world, a nexus of famous dancers, choreographers, composers and artists. 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. "Ballets Russes" the movie picks up the story in 1929, tracing the rise of a new company, eventually called the Original Ballet Russe, and a spinoff under Léonide Massine called the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/arts/dance/30rock.html?ex=1288324800&en=0a5b9e43e1406c8f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (1049 words)      Metroactive Movies 'Ballets Russes' Ballets Russes is aimed at dance fans, but the high-spirited reminiscences of the dancers, mostly in their 80s and remarkably energetic, are irresistible. The title of the documentary Ballets Russes is a bit misleading, though, because it chronicles not Diaghilev's dancers but the two companies—the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Original Ballets Russes—that revived his ideas in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. AROUND 1909, Serge Diaghilev revolutionized classical dance with his Ballets Russes troupe, featuring Pavlova and Nijinsky. http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.09.05/ballets-0545.html   (580 words)      DanceWorks SideSteps - Ballets Russes, the Massine years This ballet was unique in that in the history of the company, it was only one not seen by Diaghilev. 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. http://www.danceworksonline.co.uk/sidesteps/companies/balletrusses_massine.htm   (942 words)      Ballets Russes on Encyclopedia.com From Russes with love: the early-20th-century gay genius of Nijinsky, Diaghilev, and the Ballets Russes comes alive in a major exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. BALLETS RUSSES [Ballets Russes] see Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich. Design, Dance and Music of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929.(Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut) http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-B1alletsR1u.asp   (189 words)      wbur.org Arts - Visual Arts - The Visuals of Dance 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. 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. 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. http://www.wbur.org/arts/2003/48970_20030610.asp   (980 words)      Art Business News: Art of the Ballets Russes explored in exhibit - museum Highlights - Baltimore Museum - Brief Article Accompanying "Art of the Ballets Russes" is "The Brilliance of Bakst: Theater and Textile Designs from Baltimore Collections," featuring Leon Bakst, the Russian artist and designer famous for his work with the Ballets Russes who brought his distinctive style to Baltimore in the 1920s. Performing between 1909 and 1929 under the leadership of Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev, the Ballets Russes was the result of the collaboration between pioneering choreographers, dancers, composers and visual artists who revolutionized ballet, music and art. The Baltimore Museum gives modern audiences a chance to experience the legendary Ballets Russes of the early 20th century in "Art of the Ballets Russes," a theatrical installation of works and remnants from 25 productions by the Ballets Russes. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HMU/is_3_30/ai_98695160   (379 words)      Picasso's designs for Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes 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. 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. 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. http://www.studio-international.co.uk/reports/balletrusse.htm   (535 words)      Ballets Russes Materials at SF PALM Known as the Rene Blum and Col. de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, the company presented ballets from the Diaghilev repertoire and new ballets by Massine and Balanchine. 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. The Original Ballet Russe suffered a gradual decline in its reputation during the 1940s. http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/dhc/findaid/russesfp/@Generic__BookTextView/112   (840 words)      The Art of Ballets Russes : The Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs, Costumes, and Paintings at the Wadsworth ... The Ballet Russes was one of the greatest artistic movements of the early twentieth century, which fused the efforts of composer, choreographer, dancer, and designer into total works of art. Most of the set and costume designs and all of the costumes were made for 37 Ballets Russes productions - the Ballets Russes was one of the greatest artistic movements of the early twentieth century, fusing the efforts of composer, choreographer, dancer, and designer into total works of art. Most of the set and costume designs and all of the costumes were made for thirty-seven Ballet Russes productions, from the first in 1909 to the last in 1929. http://www.biblio.com/books/isbnnu/14891300.html   (848 words)      Ballets Russes inspired generations of dancers. A San Francisco couple is keeping their spirit alive on film. The Ballet Russe project is not the first time Goldfine and Geller have made a dance film. "I thought Ballet Russe was shorthand for the Bolshoi or Kirov," recalls Goldfine. There were very few American ballet companies, touring or otherwise in the 1930s, when the Ballet Russe began its endless bus, truck and train treks across this continent, often playing one-nighters in the hinterlands. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/08/24/DDG7Q8C2HQ1.DTL   (1286 words)      Ballets russes (2005) Plot Outline: Ballets Russes is an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists -- now in their 70s, 80s and 90s -- who gave birth to modern ballet. It is mostly the history of the Ballets Russes as well as other interesting stories about ballet. Although ballet fans will enjoy it, others will as well. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436095   (318 words)      The Boston Herald: STAGES: Ballets Russes springs to life in exhibit.@ HighBeam Research STAGES: Ballets Russes springs to life in exhibit. 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. 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. http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:56441102&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (219 words)      CriticalDance :: View topic - Ballets Russes - The 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. There are photos of fabulous Ballet Russe stars as they looked during their careers and as senior, wonderful citizens interviewed for this film. And "Ballets Russes" does tell a marvelous story of midcentury show business, encompassing both the most exalted expressions of pure art and the sometimes grubby commerce that sustained it. http://www.ballet-dance.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24337   (1693 words)      Amazon.com: The Ballets Russes and Its World: Books First, she notes, ``he transformed the character of ballet music, putting the final nail in the coffin of the specialist tradition exemplified by such composers as Ludwig Minkus and Cesare Pugni.'' He instead used music that was performed in concert, most notably working with Stravinsky on Firebird, Petrouchka, Le Sacre du Printemps. Part two examines the evolution of dance through the Ballets Russes, including the influence of Isadora Duncan and others (in Elizabeth Souritz's essay), ``Firebird and the Idea of Russianness'' (by Sally Banes), and an examination of the Diaghilev/Stravinsky juggernaut; notes Charles M. Joseph: ``Diaghilev was a jumble of unlikeable traits. Garafola, Lynn: The Ballets Russes and Its World. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300061765?v=glance   (1537 words)      The Ballets Russes Michel Fokine was the first choreographer and primier danseur of the Ballets Russes. These two artists will work on stage and costume design for the Ballets Russes. Together with Leon Bakst and Alexander Benois, founded the art journal "World of Art" in 1898. http://www2.tltc.ttu.edu/qualin/Culture/notes/ballet.htm   (57 words)      How the Ballets Russes Inspired Dance's Great Leap Forward - And a New Film But within five years, all the major Ballets Russes are gone, their dancers dispersing to start companies across the West. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo becomes a popular touring outfit, and in 1957 sets a box-office record at the Met. The company (renamed Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev) premieres The Rite of Spring in 1913. http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/columns/longstory/14842   (604 words)      The Ballets Russes and Its World Diaghilev& Ballets Russes (1909–1929) left its mark on virtually every aspect of the fine and performing arts in the West. This is followed by discussions of Diaghilev& tangled relationship with Igor Stravinsky; the groundbreaking 1923 Les Noces; a previously unknown involvement between Fernand Léger and the Ballets Russes; and the war between modernism and classicism in the company’s ballets. The artists who worked with the Ballets Russes—among them Stravinsky, Picasso, Matisse, Nijinsky, Prokofiev, and Balanchine—made the company a force in defining the avant-garde in the early part of the century. http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300061765   (350 words)      Ballets Russes previously at Film Forum in New York City This epic-scaled documentary does justice to these companies (there were actually dueling Ballets Russes). LONG SYNONYMOUS WITH LEGENDARY IMPRESARIO SERGE DIAGHILEV AND THE GENIUS OF NIJINSKY, the Ballets Russes was founded in Paris in 1909, but had a long, illustrious history that spanned many continents, over 50 years, encompassing the lifetimes of many of the 20th century’s greatest dancers. The film is replete with breathtaking, rare archival footage and evocative interviews with dancers in their 80s and 90s who recall their early days touring the world, working with the likes of Balanchine, Massine, Fokine, Stravinsky, Debussy, Picasso and Matisse. http://www.filmforum.org/films/ballets.html   (322 words)      GreenCine Daily: Port Townsend Dispatch. The movie also touches on the London Ballet Wars of 1938, a time when Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo went opposite the Original Ballet Russe, and I thought - this is a world I could live in. Among the many films highlighted here: Ballets Russes, Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern and Life in a Box. Like Ballets Russes, Going Through Splat immerses us in the chance to experience something of worlds gone by. http://daily.greencine.com/archives/001252.html   (2632 words)      DanceWorks SideSteps - Ballets Russes Although in the years preceding the status of ballet had suffered, the company's advanced technical skill, innovative ballets, and colourful designs revived ballet and reestablished it as a credible art form. Originally begun in 1909 as a summer theatre in Paris by the Russian Opera and Ballet, Ballets Russes became a permanent ballet company in 1911. Nijinsky's dances, such as his scandalous L'aprés-midi d'un faune in 1911 (right) and Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) in 1912 broke away from classical technique. http://www.danceworksonline.co.uk/sidesteps/companies/balletrusses.htm   (240 words)      Ballets Russes ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews Fernand Leger - Exit the Ballets Russes 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French He has painted the Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Opera and English National Ballet, The Kirov, The Bolshie’s,... Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Ballets Russes.. http://wwar.com/masters/b/ballets_russes.html   (344 words)      Time travels / Ballets Russes thrills Modern ballet was born that day, with three dances by Michel Fokine: "Le Pavillion d'Armide," "Prince Igor" and "Le Festin." All at once, it seemed, Richard Wagner's dream of a complete work combining the best in all the arts became a reality onstage. Shattered by two world wars, Ballets Russes artists scattered all over the globe. It was the revelation of Vaslav Nijinsky, Diaghilev's lover and ballet's first gay hero, a madman and a genius whose dancing and choreography mark male dancing to this day. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/16/PK6577.DTL   (306 words)      BALLETS RUSSES The film's story begins in 1929 with the death of Serge Diaghilev, who founded the original Ballets Russes company, which gave to the world the collaborative wonder of Nijinsky, Pavlova, Stravinsky, Balanchine, Picasso, the designer Leon Bakst and so many other geniuses. Like magicians drawing back a velvet curtain to reveal the most splendiferous surprise, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine bring us the Ballets Russes in all their resplendent, mythic glory. The two companies traveled the globe, bringing ballet to South America, Australia and the United States. http://filmjournal.com/filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001391739   (325 words)      Toronto International Film Festival From 1909, when Sergei Diaghilev premiered his Ballet Russe company in Paris, to 1962, when Serge Denham’s Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performed their final show in Brooklyn, the Ballets Russes brought their groundbreaking and provocative performances to international venues large and small. The Ballets Russes completely revolutionized dance in the first half of the twentieth century. The rousing heart of the film is the reunion of more than one hundred Ballets Russes dancers from all across the globe in New Orleans in 2000. http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2005/films_description.asp?id=25   (423 words)      Ballets Russes 'Ballets Russes' begins with the company's Diaghilev-era in turn-of-the-century Paris -- when artists such as Nijinsky, Balanchine, Picasso, Miro, Matisse and Stravinsky united in an unparalleled collaboration. Description: The revolutionary 20th-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes began as a group of Russian refugees, who never danced in Russia, and became not one but two rival dance troupes. http://www.factmonster.com/movies/48555   (118 words)      Ballets Russes SAN FRANCISCO -- A captivating if somewhat conventional documentary, "Ballets Russes" is a paean to the groundbreaking, 20th century ballet troupe that began as a loose group of Russian refugees, metamorphosed into the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and eventually split into two competing companies. Originally founded in 1909 by Russian exile Serge Diaghilev, the Ballets Russes emerged during an exciting and especially vital period of artistic creativity in Paris. Nijinsky, Balanchine, Picasso, Miro, Matisse, Dali, Cocteau and Stravinsky are just a few of the artists who collaborated on BR productions that combined avant-garde music, design and the beginnings of modern ballet. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001434088   (410 words)      village voice > dance > Ballets Russes by Tobi Tobias When the maestro died in 1929, the Ballets Russes evolved into a pair of rival companies that crisscrossed America, seducing both cultural innocents and sophisticates with glamour, beauty, and transcendence. Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine's splendid Ballets Russes outwits these numbing givens. A free preview of this film will be offered Wednesday, October 19, at 6:30 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, 212-930-0800. http://www.villagevoice.com/dance/0542,tobias2,68976,14.html   (218 words)      Amazon.com: The Art of the Ballets Russes: The Russian Seasons in Paris 1908-1929: Books: M. N. Pozharskaia,Tatiana ... Sergei Diaghilev, visionary creator of the Ballets Russes, chose artists to design and unify costumes and scenery for his "Russian Seasons" in Paris, and the spectacular results are spotlighted here. The Art of the Ballets Russes: The Russian Seasons in Paris 1908-1929 (Hardcover) Amazon.com: The Art of the Ballets Russes: The Russian Seasons in Paris 1908-1929: Books: M. Pozharskaia,Tatiana Volodina,Militsa Pozharskaya http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558591516?v=glance   (584 words)      Ballets Russes The A.V. Club One of Ballets Russes' weaknesses is its failure to delve deeply enough into the differences between those styles, and what the art of dance really is. Geller and Goldfine make a few valiant attempts to break it down, but the archival footage they have to work with is stiffly shot and not illustrative enough. The bulk of Geller and Goldfine's documentary—which relies heavily on interviews with surviving participants of the scattered ballets—deals with the controversy, the successes, and the strange insular culture of the Ballets Russes. After Diaghilev died, the array of talented dancers, apprentice choreographers, and set designers he assembled bickered over the rights to the name, and at various times, the likes of George Balanchine and Leonide Massine led rival versions of the Ballets Russes on simultaneous tours of Europe and America. http://www.avclub.com/content/node/41968   (270 words)      Amazon.co.uk: The Ballets Russes and Its World: Books This well illustrated book surveys the dance, art, music and cultural worlds of the Ballets Russes. It begins with Diaghilev's early life, followed by discussion of his tangled relationship with Stravinsky and the war between modernism and classicism in the ballets and concludes by investigating the company's legacy in the US and UK. Buy The Ballets Russes and Its World with Diaghilev today! http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300061765   (406 words)      AllRefer.com - Ballets Russes (Dance) - Encyclopedia More articles from AllRefer Reference on Ballets Russes You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Dance > Ballets Russes http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/X/X-BalletsRu.html   (109 words)      Ballets Russes (2005) Ballets Russes tells the stories two ballet companies, The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Original Ballet Russe. The dancers and choreographers of these troupes are credited with inventing modern ballet. IN THIS SECTION: Trailer & Clips · Ebert & Roeper · Statler & Waldorf · On the Red Carpet · Gallery of the Week http://www.movies.go.com/movies/movie?name=ballets-russes_2005&genre=documentary&studio=TBA   (169 words)      Unit 4 : Europe, Russia, and the Independent Republics : The Ballets Russes DanceWorks SideSteps: Ballets Russes http://www.danceworksonline.co.uk/ sidesteps/ companies/ balletrusses.htm Impressive collection of images showing many costumes from Ballets Russes productions between 1909 and 1933. British dance school’s site features in-depth background on the Ballets Russes and an extensive photo gallery. http://www.classzone.com/books/wc_western05/page_build.cfm?id=spot_culture_bal&u=4   (106 words)

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