Russian Ballets

The Russian Ballets are a famous company of Ballet created in 1907 by Serge de Diaghilev, with the best elements of the Théâtre Mariinsky of Saint-Pétersbourg. As of 1909, the company starts an international round and, in 1911, Diaghilev cut the bridges with the Imperial Ballet. The company becomes a troop private, independent, which is fixed at Monte Carlo, Paris and London, without sticking to any theater in particular.

Rounds

The first season of the Russian Ballets takes place with the Théâtre of Châtelet, of the May 18th to the June 18th 1909. Each year at this period, the company returns to Paris, initially in Châtelet, then in other theaters.

Starting from 1911, the troop also gives representations to Rome, with Vienna, the Grand Theater of Geneva, with Barcelona and Madrid. She also dances in South America as of 1913, with the the United States as of 1915; after the First World War, it occurs in Belgium between 1922 and 1928, with Lausanne and Bern in 1923, with the Netherlands in 1924.

The last representation is given to Vichy the August 4th 1929. In spite of the attempts of Serge Lifar and Boris Kochno, the troop does not survive its founder, deceased with Venice the August 19th 1929, but the spirit will be preserved by it until the Ballets of the Marquis de Cuevas.

Dancers

Principal dancers and dancers:

Other artists

The spectacles also reveal with the public the talents of large artists:
  • the Russian type-setters Moussorgski, Prokofiev, Stravinski, Rimsky-Korsakoff
  • the French type-setters Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc, Satie, Milhaud
  • the painters Picasso, Matisse, Directs, Derain, Utrillo, Rouault, Laurencin, Chirico.

For the decorations and the costumes, Diaghilev works with Leon Bakst and Alexandre Benois, but the day before the First World War, it will prefer Picasso with this last.

The repertory (creations)

External bonds

  • File of the teaching National center of Documentation (CNDP)

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