Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
... Russe de Monte Carlo Ballet company formed in 1932 , and orig. called Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, in effort to continue Diaghilev 's work. It was headed by Colonel Wassili de Basil and René Blum , with Fokine , Massine and Balanchine as choreogs. Later de Basil split away from Blum and Massine and his co. disbanded in Paris in 1947 , though it was revived for a year in London, 1951 . The Blum‐Massine co., under the name Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, went to USA at outbreak of World War II where it toured N. Amer. until disbandment in 1962...
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)
...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo A descendant of René Blum 's Ballets de Monte Carlo, and part of the proliferation of companies which sprung up in the 1930s hoping to recapture the enormous popularity of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Although it eventually became an American company, it was founded when Massine, ballet master of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, quarrelled with Colonel de Basil , who ran the Ballets Russes, and sought a company of his own. The opening season of the new Massine-directed troupe was at the Monte Carlo Opera in April 1938 ; with...
Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...by the Ballet Russe; and, today, many former members of the Ballet Russe are teachers and company directors throughout America. [ Many of the figures and works mentioned herein are the subjects of independent entries .] Amberg, George . Ballet: The Emergence of an American Art . New York, 1949. Anderson, Jack . The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo . New York, 1981. Contains a complete season-by-season listing of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo personnel and repertory. Ballet Russe de Gotham . Newsweek (24 September 1945). A...
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Les Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)
...Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Les Company founded in 1932 to succeed the Ballets Russes de Diaghilev. It was a fusion of the Ballets de l'Opéra de Monte Carlo and the Ballet de l'Opéra Russe à Paris, with Colonel de Basil as director and René Blum as artistic director. Many former members of the Diaghilev troupe joined the new Monte Carlo-based company, including Kochno (artistic adviser), Balanchine (who was appointed ballet master), and Massine. The addition of the three ‘baby ballerinas‘, Baronova, Riabouchinska, and Toumanova, generated additional...
Ballets Russes De Monte Carlo Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
... Russes De Monte Carlo . At various times, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo was alternatively known as the Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil, Educational Ballets Limited, Covent Garden Russian Ballet, and Original Ballet Russe. After Serge Diaghilev 's death in 1929 René Blum , director of plays and operettas at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo, was appointed director of ballet at the theater. Determined to establish a new Russian ballet company based in Monte Carlo, he approached several of Diaghilev's former associates but met with little success. In...
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Colonel de Basil
René Blum
Boris Kochno
Beach
Gaîté parisienne
Nina Popova
Night Shadow
David Lichine
Vladimir Skouratoff
Anton Dolin
Nicholas Beriozoff
Alice Nikitina
