Original Ballet Russe
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The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil as a successor to the Ballets Russes, founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev. The company assumed the new name Original Ballet Russe after a split between de Basil and Blum. De Basil led the renamed company, while Blum and others founded a new company under the name Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo. It was a large scale professional ballet company which toured extensively in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the United States, and Central and South America. It closed down operations in 1947.
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General information | |
Name | Original Ballet Russe |
Previous names | Les Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil Covent Garden Russian Ballet |
Successor | Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo |
Year founded | 1931 |
Closed | 1947 |
Founders | René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil |
Principal venue | Monte Carlo |
Senior staff | |
Company manager | Sol Hurok |
Artistic staff | |
Artistic Director | Colonel Wassily de Basil |
Resident Choreographers | Leonide Massine (1932–1937) George Balanchine (1932–1933) Michel Fokine (1937–c. 1941) |
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