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href="#Vaslav_Nijinsky"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Vaslav Nijinsky</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Vaslav_Nijinsky-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Léonide_Massine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Léonide_Massine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Léonide Massine</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Léonide_Massine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bronislava_Nijinska" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bronislava_Nijinska"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Bronislava Nijinska</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bronislava_Nijinska-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-George_Balanchine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#George_Balanchine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>George Balanchine</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-George_Balanchine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_designers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_designers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>The designers</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-The_designers-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle The designers subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-The_designers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Alexandre_Benois" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alexandre_Benois"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Alexandre Benois</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alexandre_Benois-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Léon_Bakst" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Léon_Bakst"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Léon Bakst</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Léon_Bakst-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pablo_Picasso" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pablo_Picasso"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Pablo Picasso</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pablo_Picasso-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Natalia_Goncharova" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Natalia_Goncharova"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Natalia Goncharova</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Natalia_Goncharova-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Composers_and_conductors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Composers_and_conductors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Composers and conductors</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Composers_and_conductors-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Composers and conductors subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Composers_and_conductors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Igor_Stravinsky" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Igor_Stravinsky"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Igor Stravinsky</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Igor_Stravinsky-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Film_of_a_performance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Film_of_a_performance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Film of a performance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Film_of_a_performance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Centennial_exhibitions_and_celebrations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Centennial_exhibitions_and_celebrations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Centennial exhibitions and celebrations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Centennial_exhibitions_and_celebrations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3" title="باليه روس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="باليه روس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russos" title="Ballets Russos – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ballets Russos" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8B%D1%80%C4%83%D1%81_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%BD%C4%95%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC" title="Вырăс сезонĕсем – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Вырăс сезонĕсем" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusk%C3%BD_balet" title="Ruský balet – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Ruský balet" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Rusos" title="Ballets Rusos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ballets Rusos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusaj_Baletoj" title="Rusaj Baletoj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Rusaj Baletoj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errusiar_Balletak" title="Errusiar Balletak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Errusiar Balletak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3" title="باله روس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="باله روس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_russes" title="Ballets russes – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ballets russes" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%9C%EB%A0%88_%EB%A4%BC%EC%8A%A4" title="발레 뤼스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="발레 뤼스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balletti_russi" title="Balletti russi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Balletti russi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%98_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1" title="בלט רוס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="בלט רוס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94-%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="ბალე-რუსი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბალე-რუსი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_russes" title="Ballets russes – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ballets russes" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_russes" title="Ballets russes – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Ballets russes" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%82%B9" title="バレエ・リュス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="バレエ・リュス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ballets Russes" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" 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id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Itinerant ballet company (1909–1929)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the early 20th-century ballet company. For the 2005 feature documentary, see <a href="/wiki/Ballets_Russes_(film)" title="Ballets Russes (film)">Ballets Russes (film)</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Russian_ballet" title="Russian ballet">Russian ballet</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org">Ballets Russes</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #dedede">General information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Name</th><td class="infobox-data">Ballets Russes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Year founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1909</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Closed</th><td class="infobox-data">1929</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Principal venue</th><td class="infobox-data">various</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #dedede">Artistic staff</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Artistic Director</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Diaghilev" title="Sergei Diaghilev">Sergei Diaghilev</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #dedede">Other</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Principal</li><li>Soloist</li><li>Corps de Ballet</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nijinsky_-_Poster-2008-17-08.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Nijinsky_-_Poster-2008-17-08.jpeg/220px-Nijinsky_-_Poster-2008-17-08.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="350" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Nijinsky_-_Poster-2008-17-08.jpeg/330px-Nijinsky_-_Poster-2008-17-08.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Nijinsky_-_Poster-2008-17-08.jpeg/440px-Nijinsky_-_Poster-2008-17-08.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2011" data-file-height="3200" /></a><figcaption>Poster by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Cocteau" title="Jean Cocteau">Jean Cocteau</a> for the 1911 Ballet Russe season showing <a href="/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky" title="Vaslav Nijinsky">Nijinsky</a> in costume for <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Spectre_de_la_rose" title="Le Spectre de la rose">Le Spectre de la rose</a></i>, Paris</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Ballets Russes</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">French:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[balɛ<span class="wrap"> </span>ʁys]</a></span>) was an itinerant <a href="/wiki/Ballet_company" title="Ballet company">ballet company</a> begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America. The company never performed in Russia, where the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Revolution</a> disrupted society. After its initial Paris season, the company had no formal ties there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998vii_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998vii-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Originally conceived by <a href="/wiki/Impresario" title="Impresario">impresario</a> <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Diaghilev" title="Sergei Diaghilev">Sergei Diaghilev</a>, the Ballets Russes is widely regarded as the most influential ballet company of the 20th century,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in part because it promoted ground-breaking artistic collaborations among young choreographers, composers, designers, and dancers, all at the forefront of their several fields. Diaghilev commissioned works from composers such as <a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Claude_Debussy" title="Claude Debussy">Claude Debussy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev" title="Sergei Prokofiev">Sergei Prokofiev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erik_Satie" title="Erik Satie">Erik Satie</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Ravel" title="Maurice Ravel">Maurice Ravel</a>, artists such as <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Kandinsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasily Kandinsky">Vasily Kandinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Benois" title="Alexandre Benois">Alexandre Benois</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse">Henri Matisse</a>, and costume designers <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bakst" title="Léon Bakst">Léon Bakst</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coco_Chanel" title="Coco Chanel">Coco Chanel</a>. </p><p>The company's productions created a huge sensation, completely reinvigorating the art of performing dance, bringing many visual artists to public attention, and significantly affecting the course of musical composition. It also introduced European and American audiences to tales, music, and design motifs drawn from <a href="/wiki/Russian_folklore" title="Russian folklore">Russian folklore</a>. The company's employment of European <a href="/wiki/Avant-garde" title="Avant-garde">avant-garde</a> art went on to influence broader artistic and popular culture of the early twentieth century, not least the development of <a href="/wiki/Art_Deco" title="Art Deco">Art Deco</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nomenclature">Nomenclature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Nomenclature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The French plural form of the name, <i>Ballets Russes</i>, specifically refers to the company founded by Sergei Diaghilev and active during his lifetime. (In some publicity the company was advertised as <i>Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghileff.</i>) In English, the company is now commonly referred to as "the Ballets Russes", although in the early part of the 20th century, it was sometimes referred to as "The Russian Ballet" or "Diaghilev's Russian Ballet." To add to the confusion, some publicity material spelled the name in the singular. </p><p>The names <a href="/wiki/Ballet_Russe_de_Monte-Carlo" title="Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo">Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Original_Ballet_Russe" title="Original Ballet Russe">Original Ballet Russe</a> (using the singular) refer to companies that formed after Diaghilev's death in 1929. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_and_productions">History and productions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History and productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sergei_Diaghilev_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Sergei_Diaghilev_01.jpg/220px-Sergei_Diaghilev_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Sergei_Diaghilev_01.jpg/330px-Sergei_Diaghilev_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Sergei_Diaghilev_01.jpg/440px-Sergei_Diaghilev_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="669" data-file-height="826" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Diaghilev" title="Sergei Diaghilev">Sergei Diaghilev</a>, founder of the Ballets Russes </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Diaghilev" title="Sergei Diaghilev">Sergei Diaghilev</a>, the company's <a href="/wiki/Impresario" title="Impresario">impresario</a> (or "<a href="/wiki/Artistic_director" title="Artistic director">artistic director</a>" in modern terms), was chiefly responsible for its success. He was uniquely prepared for the role; born into a wealthy Russian family of vodka distillers (though they went bankrupt when he was 18), he was accustomed to moving in the upper-class circles that provided the company's patrons and benefactors. It's indispensable to mention the name of the sponsor <a href="/wiki/Winnaretta_Singer" title="Winnaretta Singer">Winnaretta Singer</a> which generous financial subsides ensured the success of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1890, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law, St. Petersburg, to prepare for a career in the civil service like many Russian young men of his class.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998150_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998150-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There he was introduced (through his cousin <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Filosofov" title="Dmitry Filosofov">Dmitry Filosofov</a>) to a student clique of artists and intellectuals calling themselves <a href="/wiki/Nevsky_Pickwickians" title="Nevsky Pickwickians">The Nevsky Pickwickians</a> whose most influential member was <a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Benois" title="Alexandre Benois">Alexandre Benois</a>; others included <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bakst" title="Léon Bakst">Léon Bakst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Nouvel" title="Walter Nouvel">Walter Nouvel</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Somov" title="Konstantin Somov">Konstantin Somov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998150_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998150-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From childhood, Diaghilev had been passionately interested in music. However, his ambition to become a composer was dashed in 1894 when <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov" title="Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov">Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov</a> told him he had no talent.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998p._438,_n.&nbsp;7_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998p._438,_n.&nbsp;7-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> In 1898, several members of <a href="/wiki/Nevsky_Pickwickians" title="Nevsky Pickwickians">The Pickwickians</a> founded the journal <i><a href="/wiki/Mir_iskusstva" title="Mir iskusstva">Mir iskusstva</a></i> (<i>World of Art</i>) under the editorship of Diaghilev.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998151_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998151-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As early as 1902, <i>Mir iskusstva</i> included reviews of concerts, operas, and ballets in Russia. The latter were chiefly written by Benois, who exerted considerable influence on Diaghilev's thinking.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Mir iskusstva</i> also sponsored exhibitions of Russian art in St. Petersburg, culminating in Diaghilev's important 1905 show of Russian portraiture at the <a href="/wiki/Tauride_Palace" title="Tauride Palace">Tauride Palace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Macke_Russisches_Ballett_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="painting of a ballet performance on stage" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Macke_Russisches_Ballett_1.jpg/220px-Macke_Russisches_Ballett_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Macke_Russisches_Ballett_1.jpg/330px-Macke_Russisches_Ballett_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Macke_Russisches_Ballett_1.jpg/440px-Macke_Russisches_Ballett_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1157" /></a><figcaption><i>Ballet Russes</i> by <a href="/wiki/August_Macke" title="August Macke">August Macke</a>, 1912</figcaption></figure> <p>Frustrated by the extreme conservatism of the Russian art world, Diaghilev organized the groundbreaking <i>Exhibition of Russian Art</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Petit_Palais" title="Petit Palais">Petit Palais</a> in Paris in 1906, the first major showing of Russian art in the West. Its enormous success created a Parisian fascination with all things Russian. Diaghilev organized a 1907 season of Russian music at the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Opera" title="Paris Opera">Paris Opéra</a>. In 1908, Diaghilev returned to the Paris Opéra with six performances of <a href="/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky" title="Modest Mussorgsky">Modest Mussorgsky</a>'s opera <i><a href="/wiki/Boris_Godunov_(opera)" title="Boris Godunov (opera)">Boris Godunov</a>,</i> starring basso <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Chaliapin" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Chaliapin">Fyodor Chaliapin</a>. This was <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov" title="Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov">Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov</a>'s 1908 version (with additional cuts and re-arrangement of the scenes). The performances were a sensation, though the costs of producing grand opera were crippling. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Debut">Debut</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Debut"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1909, Diaghilev presented his first Paris "Saison Russe" devoted exclusively to ballet (although the company did not use the name "Ballets Russes" until the following year). Most of this original company were resident performers at the <a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Imperial Ballet</a> of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, hired by Diaghilev to perform in Paris during the Imperial Ballet's summer holidays. The first season's repertory featured a variety of works chiefly choreographed by <a href="/wiki/Michel_Fokine" title="Michel Fokine">Michel Fokine</a>, including <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Pavillon_d%27Armide" title="Le Pavillon d'Armide">Le Pavillon d'Armide</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Polovtsian_Dances" title="Polovtsian Dances">Polovtsian Dances</a></i> (from <i><a href="/wiki/Prince_Igor" title="Prince Igor">Prince Igor</a></i>), <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Sylphides" title="Les Sylphides">Les Sylphides</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Cl%C3%A9op%C3%A2tre_(ballet)" title="Cléopâtre (ballet)">Cléopâtre</a></i>. The season also included <i>Le Festin</i>, a pastiche set by several choreographers (including Fokine) to music by several Russian composers. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Principal_productions">Principal productions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Principal productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable selfref">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Ballets_Russes_productions" title="Category:Ballets Russes productions">Category:Ballets Russes productions</a></div> <p>The principal productions are shown in the table below. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><b>Year</b> </th> <th><b>Title</b> </th> <th>Image </th> <th><b>Composer(s)</b> </th> <th><b>Choreographer(s)</b> </th> <th><b>Sets and costumes</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="13">1909 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Pavillon_d%27Armide" title="Le Pavillon d'Armide">Le Pavillon d'Armide</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Pavillion_d%27Armide_by_A._Benois_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Pavillion_d%27Armide_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/100px-Pavillion_d%27Armide_by_A._Benois_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Pavillion_d%27Armide_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/150px-Pavillion_d%27Armide_by_A._Benois_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Pavillion_d%27Armide_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/200px-Pavillion_d%27Armide_by_A._Benois_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="558" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Tcherepnin" title="Nikolai Tcherepnin">Nikolai Tcherepnin</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michel_Fokine" title="Michel Fokine">Michel Fokine</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Benois" title="Alexandre Benois">Alexandre Benois</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Prince_Igor" title="Prince Igor">Prince Igor</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Choumoff_-_Adolph_Bolm,_Polovtsian_Dances.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Choumoff_-_Adolph_Bolm%2C_Polovtsian_Dances.jpg/100px-Choumoff_-_Adolph_Bolm%2C_Polovtsian_Dances.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Choumoff_-_Adolph_Bolm%2C_Polovtsian_Dances.jpg/150px-Choumoff_-_Adolph_Bolm%2C_Polovtsian_Dances.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Choumoff_-_Adolph_Bolm%2C_Polovtsian_Dances.jpg/200px-Choumoff_-_Adolph_Bolm%2C_Polovtsian_Dances.jpg 2x" data-file-width="335" data-file-height="501" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Borodin" title="Alexander Borodin">Alexander Borodin</a> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Roerich" title="Nicholas Roerich">Nicholas Roerich</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="9"><i>Le Festin</i> </td> <td rowspan="9"><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Nijinsky_Le_Festin_Michel_Fokine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Nijinsky_Le_Festin_Michel_Fokine.jpg/100px-Nijinsky_Le_Festin_Michel_Fokine.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Nijinsky_Le_Festin_Michel_Fokine.jpg/150px-Nijinsky_Le_Festin_Michel_Fokine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Nijinsky_Le_Festin_Michel_Fokine.jpg/200px-Nijinsky_Le_Festin_Michel_Fokine.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3041" data-file-height="4948" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov" title="Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov">Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov</a> (march from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Cockerel" title="The Golden Cockerel">Le Coq d'Or</a></i> used for processional entry) </td> <td> </td> <td rowspan="9"><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Korovin" title="Konstantin Korovin">Konstantin Korovin</a> (sets and costumes) <p><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bakst" title="Léon Bakst">Léon Bakst</a> (costumes) </p><p>Alexandre Benois (costumes) </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Bilibin" title="Ivan Bilibin">Ivan Bilibin</a> (costumes) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Glinka" title="Mikhail Glinka">Mikhail Glinka</a> (<i>"Lezginka"</i> from <i><a href="/wiki/Ruslan_and_Lyudmila_(opera)" title="Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera)">Ruslan and Ludmilla</a></i>) </td> <td>Michel Fokine, <a href="/wiki/Marius_Petipa" title="Marius Petipa">Marius Petipa</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky" title="Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky">Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky</a> (<i>"L'Oiseau d'Or"</i> from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(ballet)" title="The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)">The Sleeping Beauty</a></i>) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Marius_Petipa" title="Marius Petipa">Marius Petipa</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Glazunov" title="Alexander Glazunov">Alexander Glazunov</a> (<i>"Czardas"</i> from <i><a href="/wiki/Raymonda" title="Raymonda">Raymonda</a></i>) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Alexeyevich_Gorsky" title="Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky">Alexander Gorsky</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky" title="Modest Mussorgsky">Modest Mussorgsky</a> (<i>"Hopak"</i> from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fair_at_Sorochyntsi" title="The Fair at Sorochyntsi">The Fair at Sorochyntsi</a></i>) </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mikhail Glinka (<i>"Mazurka"</i> from <i><a href="/wiki/A_Life_for_the_Tsar" title="A Life for the Tsar">A Life for the Tsar</a></i>) </td> <td>Nicolai Goltz, Felix Kchessinsky </td></tr> <tr> <td>Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (<i>"Trepak"</i> from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Nutcracker" title="The Nutcracker">The Nutcracker</a></i>) </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td></tr> <tr> <td>Alexander Glazunov (<i>"Grand Pas Classique Hongrois"</i> from <i><a href="/wiki/Raymonda" title="Raymonda">Raymonda</a></i>) </td> <td>Marius Petipa </td></tr> <tr> <td>Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (<i>"Finale"</i> of the <a href="/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Tchaikovsky)" title="Symphony No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)">Second Symphony</a>) </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Les_Sylphides" title="Les Sylphides">Les Sylphides</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Les_Sylphides_by_A.Benois.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Les_Sylphides_by_A.Benois.jpeg/100px-Les_Sylphides_by_A.Benois.jpeg" decoding="async" width="100" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Les_Sylphides_by_A.Benois.jpeg/150px-Les_Sylphides_by_A.Benois.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Les_Sylphides_by_A.Benois.jpeg/200px-Les_Sylphides_by_A.Benois.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="722" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin" title="Frédéric Chopin">Frédéric Chopin</a> <small>(orch. Glazunov, <a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Taneyev" title="Alexander Taneyev">Alexander Taneyev</a>)</small> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Alexandre Benois </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Cl%C3%A9op%C3%A2tre_(ballet)" title="Cléopâtre (ballet)">Cléopâtre</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Cleopatra_ballet_by_Bakst_08.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Cleopatra_ballet_by_Bakst_08.jpg/100px-Cleopatra_ballet_by_Bakst_08.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Cleopatra_ballet_by_Bakst_08.jpg/150px-Cleopatra_ballet_by_Bakst_08.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Cleopatra_ballet_by_Bakst_08.jpg/200px-Cleopatra_ballet_by_Bakst_08.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1064" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anton_Arensky" title="Anton Arensky">Anton Arensky</a> <small>(additional music by Glazunov, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Taneyev" title="Sergei Taneyev">Sergei Taneyev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Tcherepnin" title="Nikolai Tcherepnin">Nikolai Tcherepnin</a>)</small> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5">1910 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Carnaval_(Schumann)" title="Carnaval (Schumann)">Carnaval</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Carnaval_(Schumann)_by_L.Bakst_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Carnaval_%28Schumann%29_by_L.Bakst_02.jpg/100px-Carnaval_%28Schumann%29_by_L.Bakst_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Carnaval_%28Schumann%29_by_L.Bakst_02.jpg/150px-Carnaval_%28Schumann%29_by_L.Bakst_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Carnaval_%28Schumann%29_by_L.Bakst_02.jpg/200px-Carnaval_%28Schumann%29_by_L.Bakst_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="949" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Schumann" title="Robert Schumann">Robert Schumann</a> <small>(orch. Arensky, Glazunov, <a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Lyadov" title="Anatoly Lyadov">Anatol Liadov</a>, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tcherepnin)</small> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Scheherazade_(Rimsky-Korsakov)" title="Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)">Schéhérazade</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Scheherazade_(Rimsky-Korsakov)_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Scheherazade_%28Rimsky-Korsakov%29_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg/100px-Scheherazade_%28Rimsky-Korsakov%29_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="81" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Scheherazade_%28Rimsky-Korsakov%29_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg/150px-Scheherazade_%28Rimsky-Korsakov%29_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Scheherazade_%28Rimsky-Korsakov%29_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg/200px-Scheherazade_%28Rimsky-Korsakov%29_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="880" /></a></span> </td> <td>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Giselle" title="Giselle">Giselle</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Giselle_(A._Benois)_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Giselle_%28A._Benois%29_01.jpg/100px-Giselle_%28A._Benois%29_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Giselle_%28A._Benois%29_01.jpg/150px-Giselle_%28A._Benois%29_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Giselle_%28A._Benois%29_01.jpg/200px-Giselle_%28A._Benois%29_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="761" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Adolphe_Adam" title="Adolphe Adam">Adolphe Adam</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jean_Coralli" title="Jean Coralli">Jean Coralli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jules_Perrot" title="Jules Perrot">Jules Perrot</a>, Marius Petipa (revival), Michel Fokine (revisions) </td> <td>Alexandre Benois </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Les_Orientales_(ballet)" title="Les Orientales (ballet)">Les Orientales</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Anna_Pavlova_in_Oriental_Fantasy_by_L.Bakst.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Anna_Pavlova_in_Oriental_Fantasy_by_L.Bakst.jpg/100px-Anna_Pavlova_in_Oriental_Fantasy_by_L.Bakst.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Anna_Pavlova_in_Oriental_Fantasy_by_L.Bakst.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="145" data-file-height="192" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Christian_Sinding" title="Christian Sinding">Christian Sinding</a> (<i>Rondoletto giocoso, op.32/5</i>) <small>(orch. Igor Stravinsky for <i>"Danse Siamoise"</i>)</small> <p><a href="/wiki/Edvard_Grieg" title="Edvard Grieg">Edvard Grieg</a> (<i>Småtroll,</i> op.71/3, from <i><a href="/wiki/Lyric_Pieces" title="Lyric Pieces">Lyric Pieces</a>, Book X</i>) <small>(orch. Igor Stravinsky for <i>"Variation")</i></small> </p> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky" title="Vaslav Nijinsky">Vaslav Nijinsky</a> <i>("Danse Orientale"</i> and <i>"Variation")</i> <p>Michel Fokine </p> </td> <td>Konstantin Korovin (sets and costumes) <p>Léon Bakst (costumes) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Firebird" title="The Firebird">L'Oiseau de feu</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:L%C3%A9on_Bakst_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/L%C3%A9on_Bakst_001.jpg/100px-L%C3%A9on_Bakst_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/L%C3%A9on_Bakst_001.jpg/150px-L%C3%A9on_Bakst_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/L%C3%A9on_Bakst_001.jpg/200px-L%C3%A9on_Bakst_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1576" data-file-height="2152" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Golovin_(artist)" title="Aleksandr Golovin (artist)">Alexander Golovine</a> (sets and costumes) <p>Léon Bakst (costumes) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5">1911 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Spectre_de_la_Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Spectre de la Rose">Le Spectre de la rose</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Le_Spectre_De_La_Rose_by_L._Bakst_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Le_Spectre_De_La_Rose_by_L._Bakst_01.jpg/100px-Le_Spectre_De_La_Rose_by_L._Bakst_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Le_Spectre_De_La_Rose_by_L._Bakst_01.jpg/150px-Le_Spectre_De_La_Rose_by_L._Bakst_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Le_Spectre_De_La_Rose_by_L._Bakst_01.jpg/200px-Le_Spectre_De_La_Rose_by_L._Bakst_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="286" data-file-height="417" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carl_Maria_von_Weber" title="Carl Maria von Weber">Carl Maria von Weber</a> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Narcisse</i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Leon_Bakst_002.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Leon_Bakst_002.jpg/100px-Leon_Bakst_002.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Leon_Bakst_002.jpg/150px-Leon_Bakst_002.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Leon_Bakst_002.jpg/200px-Leon_Bakst_002.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1338" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span> </td> <td>Nikolai Tcherepnin </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Sadko_(opera)" title="Sadko (opera)">Sadko</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sadko_by_B.Anisfeld_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Sadko_by_B.Anisfeld_01.jpg/99px-Sadko_by_B.Anisfeld_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="99" height="101" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Sadko_by_B.Anisfeld_01.jpg/149px-Sadko_by_B.Anisfeld_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Sadko_by_B.Anisfeld_01.jpg/198px-Sadko_by_B.Anisfeld_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="393" data-file-height="400" /></a></span> </td> <td>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov </td> <td>Mikhail Fokine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boris_Anisfeld" title="Boris Anisfeld">Boris Anisfeld</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Petrouchka_(ballet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrouchka (ballet)">Petrushka</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Petrouchka_by_A._Benois_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Petrouchka_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/100px-Petrouchka_by_A._Benois_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Petrouchka_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/150px-Petrouchka_by_A._Benois_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Petrouchka_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/200px-Petrouchka_by_A._Benois_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="572" /></a></span> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Alexandre Benois </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Swan_Lake" title="Swan Lake">Swan Lake</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Swan_lake_by_S.Sudeikin_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Swan_lake_by_S.Sudeikin_01.jpg/100px-Swan_lake_by_S.Sudeikin_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="81" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Swan_lake_by_S.Sudeikin_01.jpg/150px-Swan_lake_by_S.Sudeikin_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Swan_lake_by_S.Sudeikin_01.jpg/200px-Swan_lake_by_S.Sudeikin_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1084" data-file-height="880" /></a></span> </td> <td>Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky </td> <td>Marius Petipa, <a href="/wiki/Lev_Ivanov" title="Lev Ivanov">Lev Ivanov</a>, Michel Fokine (revisions) </td> <td>Konstantin Korovin (sets) <p>Alexander Golovin (sets and costumes) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">1912 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Afternoon_of_a_Faun_(Nijinsky)" title="Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky)">L'après-midi d'un faune</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:L%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/L%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg/100px-L%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/L%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg/150px-L%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/L%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg/200px-L%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1135" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Claude_Debussy" title="Claude Debussy">Claude Debussy</a> </td> <td>Vaslav Nijinsky </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%A9" title="Daphnis et Chloé">Daphnis et Chloé</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Bakst_Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%AB_Set_Act_II_1912.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Bakst_Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%AB_Set_Act_II_1912.jpg/100px-Bakst_Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%AB_Set_Act_II_1912.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Bakst_Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%AB_Set_Act_II_1912.jpg/150px-Bakst_Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%AB_Set_Act_II_1912.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Bakst_Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%AB_Set_Act_II_1912.jpg/200px-Bakst_Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%AB_Set_Act_II_1912.jpg 2x" data-file-width="976" data-file-height="680" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Ravel" title="Maurice Ravel">Maurice Ravel</a> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Dieu_bleu" title="Le Dieu bleu">Le Dieu bleu</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Le_Dieu_Bleu_by_Bakst_05.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Le_Dieu_Bleu_by_Bakst_05.jpg/100px-Le_Dieu_Bleu_by_Bakst_05.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Le_Dieu_Bleu_by_Bakst_05.jpg/150px-Le_Dieu_Bleu_by_Bakst_05.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Le_Dieu_Bleu_by_Bakst_05.jpg/200px-Le_Dieu_Bleu_by_Bakst_05.jpg 2x" data-file-width="940" data-file-height="640" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Reynaldo_Hahn" title="Reynaldo Hahn">Reynaldo Hahn</a> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Thamar</i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Thamar_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Thamar_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg/100px-Thamar_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="86" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Thamar_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg/150px-Thamar_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Thamar_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg/200px-Thamar_by_L.Bakst_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1491" data-file-height="1275" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mily_Balakirev" title="Mily Balakirev">Mily Balakirev</a> based on his symphonic Poem <a href="/wiki/Tamara_(Balakirev)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamara (Balakirev)">Tamara</a> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1913 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Jeux" title="Jeux">Jeux</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Jeux_by_A._Benois_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Jeux_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/100px-Jeux_by_A._Benois_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Jeux_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/150px-Jeux_by_A._Benois_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Jeux_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/200px-Jeux_by_A._Benois_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1084" data-file-height="688" /></a></span> </td> <td>Claude Debussy </td> <td>Vaslav Nijinsky </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_sacre_du_printemps" class="mw-redirect" title="Le sacre du printemps">Le sacre du printemps</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Roerich_Rite_of_Spring.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Roerich_Rite_of_Spring.jpg/100px-Roerich_Rite_of_Spring.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Roerich_Rite_of_Spring.jpg/150px-Roerich_Rite_of_Spring.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Roerich_Rite_of_Spring.jpg/200px-Roerich_Rite_of_Spring.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1026" data-file-height="679" /></a></span> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>Vaslav Nijinsky </td> <td>Nicholas Roerich </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Tragédie de Salomé</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Florent_Schmitt" title="Florent Schmitt">Florent Schmitt</a> </td> <td>Boris Romanov </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sergey_Sudeykin" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergey Sudeykin">Sergey Sudeykin</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5">1914 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Papillons" title="Papillons">Les Papillons</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Papillons_by_L._Bakst_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Papillons_by_L._Bakst_03.jpg/99px-Papillons_by_L._Bakst_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="99" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Papillons_by_L._Bakst_03.jpg/149px-Papillons_by_L._Bakst_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Papillons_by_L._Bakst_03.jpg/199px-Papillons_by_L._Bakst_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="325" data-file-height="480" /></a></span> </td> <td>Robert Schumann <small>(orch. <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Tcherepnin" title="Nikolai Tcherepnin">Nikolai Tcherepnin</a>)</small> </td> <td>Mikhail Fokine </td> <td>Mstislav Doboujinsky </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Josephslegende" title="Josephslegende">La légende de Joseph</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:La_legende_de_joseph_potiphar%27s_wife_1914.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/La_legende_de_joseph_potiphar%27s_wife_1914.jpg/99px-La_legende_de_joseph_potiphar%27s_wife_1914.jpg" decoding="async" width="99" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/La_legende_de_joseph_potiphar%27s_wife_1914.jpg/149px-La_legende_de_joseph_potiphar%27s_wife_1914.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/La_legende_de_joseph_potiphar%27s_wife_1914.jpg/199px-La_legende_de_joseph_potiphar%27s_wife_1914.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="999" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Strauss" title="Richard Strauss">Richard Strauss</a> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Cockerel" title="The Golden Cockerel">Le coq d'or</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Golden_Cockerel_by_N._Goncharova_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Golden_Cockerel_by_N._Goncharova_02.jpg/100px-Golden_Cockerel_by_N._Goncharova_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Golden_Cockerel_by_N._Goncharova_02.jpg/150px-Golden_Cockerel_by_N._Goncharova_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Golden_Cockerel_by_N._Goncharova_02.jpg/200px-Golden_Cockerel_by_N._Goncharova_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="409" /></a></span> </td> <td>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Natalia_Goncharova" title="Natalia Goncharova">Natalia Goncharova</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Rossignol" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Rossignol">Le rossignol</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Solovey_by_A._Benois_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Solovey_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/100px-Solovey_by_A._Benois_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Solovey_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/150px-Solovey_by_A._Benois_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Solovey_by_A._Benois_01.jpg/200px-Solovey_by_A._Benois_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="931" /></a></span> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>Boris Romanov </td> <td>Alexandre Benois </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Midas</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maximilian_Steinberg" title="Maximilian Steinberg">Maximilian Steinberg</a> </td> <td>Michel Fokine </td> <td>Mstislav Doboujinsky </td></tr> <tr> <td>1915 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Soleil_de_Nuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Soleil de Nuit">Soleil de Nuit</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mikhail_Larionov_-_Midnight_sun_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Mikhail_Larionov_-_Midnight_sun_01.jpg/100px-Mikhail_Larionov_-_Midnight_sun_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Mikhail_Larionov_-_Midnight_sun_01.jpg/150px-Mikhail_Larionov_-_Midnight_sun_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Mikhail_Larionov_-_Midnight_sun_01.jpg/200px-Mikhail_Larionov_-_Midnight_sun_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="611" data-file-height="478" /></a></span> </td> <td>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov </td> <td><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9onide_Massine" title="Léonide Massine">Léonide Massine</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Larionov" title="Mikhail Larionov">Mikhail Larionov</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1916 </td> <td><i>Las Meniñas</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Louis_Aubert" title="Louis Aubert">Louis Aubert</a>, Gabriel Fauré (<i>Pavane</i>), Maurice Ravel (<i>Alborada del gracioso</i>), Emmanuel Chabrier (<i>Menuet pompeux</i>) </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Josep_Maria_Sert" title="Josep Maria Sert">Josep Maria Sert</a> (costumes) </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Kikimora</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Lyadov" title="Anatoly Lyadov">Anatoly Liadov</a> </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Mikhail Larionov </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Till_Eulenspiegel%27s_Merry_Pranks" title="Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks">Till Eulenspiegel</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Till_Eulenspiegel_(1916)_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Till_Eulenspiegel_%281916%29_1.jpg/100px-Till_Eulenspiegel_%281916%29_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Till_Eulenspiegel_%281916%29_1.jpg/150px-Till_Eulenspiegel_%281916%29_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Till_Eulenspiegel_%281916%29_1.jpg/200px-Till_Eulenspiegel_%281916%29_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="482" /></a></span> </td> <td>Richard Strauss </td> <td>Vaslav Nijinsky </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Edmond_Jones" title="Robert Edmond Jones">Robert Edmond Jones</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1917 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Feu_d%27artifice" title="Feu d'artifice">Feu d'Artifice</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Giacomo_Balla" title="Giacomo Balla">Giacomo Balla</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur</i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Les_Femmes_de_bonne_humeur_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Les_Femmes_de_bonne_humeur_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg/100px-Les_Femmes_de_bonne_humeur_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Les_Femmes_de_bonne_humeur_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg/150px-Les_Femmes_de_bonne_humeur_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Les_Femmes_de_bonne_humeur_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg/200px-Les_Femmes_de_bonne_humeur_01_by_L._Bakst.jpg 2x" data-file-width="798" data-file-height="595" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Domenico_Scarlatti" title="Domenico Scarlatti">Domenico Scarlatti</a> <small>(orch. <a href="/wiki/Vincenzo_Tommasini" title="Vincenzo Tommasini">Vincenzo Tommasini</a>)</small> </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Parade_(ballet)" title="Parade (ballet)">Parade</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Costume_design_by_Pablo_Picasso_representing_skyscrapers_and_boulevards,_for_Serge_Diaghilev%27s_Ballets_Russes_performance_of_Parade_at_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Ch%C3%A2telet,_Paris_18_May_1917.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Costume_design_by_Pablo_Picasso_representing_skyscrapers_and_boulevards%2C_for_Serge_Diaghilev%27s_Ballets_Russes_performance_of_Parade_at_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Ch%C3%A2telet%2C_Paris_18_May_1917.jpg/100px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Costume_design_by_Pablo_Picasso_representing_skyscrapers_and_boulevards%2C_for_Serge_Diaghilev%27s_Ballets_Russes_performance_of_Parade_at_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Ch%C3%A2telet%2C_Paris_18_May_1917.jpg/150px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Costume_design_by_Pablo_Picasso_representing_skyscrapers_and_boulevards%2C_for_Serge_Diaghilev%27s_Ballets_Russes_performance_of_Parade_at_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Ch%C3%A2telet%2C_Paris_18_May_1917.jpg/199px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="804" data-file-height="1298" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Erik_Satie" title="Erik Satie">Erik Satie</a> </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1919 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/La_Boutique_fantasque" title="La Boutique fantasque">La Boutique fantasque</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:La_boutique_fantastique_by_L._Bakst_08.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/La_boutique_fantastique_by_L._Bakst_08.jpg/100px-La_boutique_fantastique_by_L._Bakst_08.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/La_boutique_fantastique_by_L._Bakst_08.jpg/150px-La_boutique_fantastique_by_L._Bakst_08.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/La_boutique_fantastique_by_L._Bakst_08.jpg/200px-La_boutique_fantastique_by_L._Bakst_08.jpg 2x" data-file-width="256" data-file-height="188" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gioachino_Rossini" title="Gioachino Rossini">Gioachino Rossini</a> <small>(arr. <a href="/wiki/Ottorino_Respighi" title="Ottorino Respighi">Ottorino Respighi</a>)</small> </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Derain" title="André Derain">André Derain</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Three-Cornered_Hat" title="The Three-Cornered Hat">El sombrero de tres picos</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Le_Tricorne%22_(1919-1920).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Le_Tricorne%22_%281919-1920%29.jpg/96px-Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Le_Tricorne%22_%281919-1920%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Le_Tricorne%22_%281919-1920%29.jpg/144px-Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Le_Tricorne%22_%281919-1920%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Le_Tricorne%22_%281919-1920%29.jpg/192px-Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Le_Tricorne%22_%281919-1920%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="266" data-file-height="354" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Manuel_de_Falla" title="Manuel de Falla">Manuel de Falla</a> </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Pablo Picasso </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Les jardins d'Aranjuez</i> (new version of <i>Las Meninas</i>) </td> <td> </td> <td>Louis Aubert, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Emmanuel Chabrier </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Josep Maria Sert (costumes) </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">1920 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_chant_du_rossignol" title="Le chant du rossignol">Le chant du rossignol</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse">Henri Matisse</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Pulcinella_(ballet)" title="Pulcinella (ballet)">Pulcinella</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Pulcinella%22_(1920).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Pulcinella%22_%281920%29.jpg/97px-Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Pulcinella%22_%281920%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="97" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Pulcinella%22_%281920%29.jpg/146px-Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Pulcinella%22_%281920%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Pulcinella%22_%281920%29.jpg/195px-Picasso%27s_costume_design_for_%22Pulcinella%22_%281920%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="368" /></a></span> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Pablo Picasso </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Ballet de l'astuce féminine</i> or <i>Cimarosiana</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Domenico_Cimarosa" title="Domenico Cimarosa">Domenico Cimarosa</a> </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Josep Maria Sert </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Le sacre du printemps</i> (revival) </td> <td> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Nicholas Roerich </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1921 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Chout" title="Chout">Chout</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Jester_ballet_by_M._Larionov_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Jester_ballet_by_M._Larionov_01.jpg/99px-Jester_ballet_by_M._Larionov_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="99" height="121" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Jester_ballet_by_M._Larionov_01.jpg/149px-Jester_ballet_by_M._Larionov_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Jester_ballet_by_M._Larionov_01.jpg/198px-Jester_ballet_by_M._Larionov_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="278" data-file-height="339" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev" title="Sergei Prokofiev">Sergei Prokofiev</a> </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Mikhail Larionov </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Cuadro Flamenco</i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Traditional Andalusian music <small>(arr. Manuel de Falla)</small> </td> <td> </td> <td>Pablo Picasso </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(ballet)" title="The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)">The Sleeping Beauty</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sleeping_Beauty_by_L._Bakst_04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Sleeping_Beauty_by_L._Bakst_04.jpg/100px-Sleeping_Beauty_by_L._Bakst_04.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Sleeping_Beauty_by_L._Bakst_04.jpg/150px-Sleeping_Beauty_by_L._Bakst_04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Sleeping_Beauty_by_L._Bakst_04.jpg/200px-Sleeping_Beauty_by_L._Bakst_04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="888" data-file-height="700" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Tchaikovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyotr Tchaikovsky">Pyotr Tchaikovsky</a> </td> <td>Marius Petipa </td> <td>Léon Bakst </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1922 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(ballet)#Aurora's_Wedding_by_Sergei_Diaghilev" title="The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)">Le Mariage de la Belle au Bois Dormant</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Pyotr Tchaikovsky </td> <td>Marius Petipa </td> <td>Alexandre Benois (sets and costumes) <p>Natalia Goncharova (costumes) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mavra" title="Mavra">Mavra</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mavra_by_L._Bakst_01.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Mavra_by_L._Bakst_01.jpeg/99px-Mavra_by_L._Bakst_01.jpeg" decoding="async" width="99" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Mavra_by_L._Bakst_01.jpeg/150px-Mavra_by_L._Bakst_01.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Mavra_by_L._Bakst_01.jpeg/199px-Mavra_by_L._Bakst_01.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1190" data-file-height="1637" /></a></span> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bronislava_Nijinska" title="Bronislava Nijinska">Bronislava Nijinska</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_Survage" title="Léopold Survage">Léopold Survage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Renard_(Stravinsky)" title="Renard (Stravinsky)">Renard</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>Bronislava Nijinska </td> <td>Mikhail Larionov </td></tr> <tr> <td>1923 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Les_Noces" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Noces">Les noces</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Little_wedding_by_N._Goncharova_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Little_wedding_by_N._Goncharova_01.jpg/100px-Little_wedding_by_N._Goncharova_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Little_wedding_by_N._Goncharova_01.jpg/150px-Little_wedding_by_N._Goncharova_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Little_wedding_by_N._Goncharova_01.jpg/200px-Little_wedding_by_N._Goncharova_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="510" data-file-height="339" /></a></span> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>Bronislava Nijinska </td> <td>Natalia Goncharova </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="6">1924 </td> <td><i>Les Tentations de la Bergère, ou l'Amour Vainqueur</i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Costume_Design_for_the_Shepherdess,_for_the_Ballet_%27Les_Tentations_de_la_Berg%C3%A8re,_premiered_at_the_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_Monte_Carlo,_1924_MET_DP858623.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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href="/wiki/File:Le_Medecin_malgre_lui_by_A.Benois_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Le_Medecin_malgre_lui_by_A.Benois_01.jpg/99px-Le_Medecin_malgre_lui_by_A.Benois_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="99" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Le_Medecin_malgre_lui_by_A.Benois_01.jpg/149px-Le_Medecin_malgre_lui_by_A.Benois_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Le_Medecin_malgre_lui_by_A.Benois_01.jpg/198px-Le_Medecin_malgre_lui_by_A.Benois_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="598" data-file-height="441" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charles_Gounod" title="Charles Gounod">Charles Gounod</a> </td> <td>Bronislava Nijinska </td> <td>Alexandre Benois </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Les_Biches" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Biches">Les biches</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Poulenc" title="Francis Poulenc">Francis Poulenc</a> </td> <td>Bronislava Nijinska </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Marie_Laurencin" title="Marie Laurencin">Marie Laurencin</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Cimarosiana</i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Domenico Cimarosa <small>(orch. Ottorino Respighi)</small> </td> <td>Léonide Massine, Bronislava Nijinska </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Josep_Maria_Sert" title="Josep Maria Sert">José-María Sert</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Les Fâcheux</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georges_Auric" title="Georges Auric">Georges Auric</a> </td> <td>Bronislava Nijinska </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georges_Braque" title="Georges Braque">Georges Braque</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Train_Bleu_(ballet)" title="Le Train Bleu (ballet)">Le train bleu</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Darius_Milhaud" title="Darius Milhaud">Darius Milhaud</a> </td> <td>Bronislava Nijinska </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henri_Laurens" title="Henri Laurens">Henri Laurens</a> (sets) <p><a href="/wiki/Gabrielle_Chanel" class="mw-redirect" title="Gabrielle Chanel">Gabrielle Chanel</a> (costumes) </p><p>Pablo Picasso (sets) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">1925 </td> <td><i>Zephyr et Flore</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Dukelsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir Dukelsky">Vladimir Dukelsky</a> </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Georges Braque </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_chant_du_rossignol" title="Le chant du rossignol">Le chant du rossignol</a></i> (revival) </td> <td> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>George Balanchine </td> <td>Henri Matisse </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Les matelots</i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Georges Auric </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Pere Pruna </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Barabau</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vittorio_Rieti" title="Vittorio Rieti">Vittorio Rieti</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Balanchine" title="George Balanchine">George Balanchine</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Utrillo" title="Maurice Utrillo">Maurice Utrillo</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">1926 </td> <td><i>Roméo et Juliette</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Constant_Lambert" title="Constant Lambert">Constant Lambert</a> </td> <td>Bronislava Nijinska </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Max_Ernst" title="Max Ernst">Max Ernst</a> (curtain) <p><a href="/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3" title="Joan Miró">Joan Miró</a> (sets and costumes) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Pastorale</i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Georges Auric </td> <td>George Balanchine </td> <td>Pere Pruna </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Jack_in_the_Box_(Satie)" title="Jack in the Box (Satie)">Jack in the Box</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Erik Satie <small>(orch. Milhaud)</small> </td> <td>George Balanchine </td> <td>André Derain </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>The Triumph of Neptune</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lord_Berners" title="Lord Berners">Lord Berners</a> </td> <td>George Balanchine </td> <td>Pedro Pruna (costumes) </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1927 </td> <td><i>La chatte</i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henri_Sauguet" title="Henri Sauguet">Henri Sauguet</a> </td> <td>George Balanchine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Naum_Gabo" title="Naum Gabo">Naum Gabo</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mercure_(ballet)" title="Mercure (ballet)">Mercure</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Massine_Mercure.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Massine_Mercure.jpg/100px-Massine_Mercure.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Massine_Mercure.jpg/150px-Massine_Mercure.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Massine_Mercure.jpg/200px-Massine_Mercure.jpg 2x" data-file-width="953" data-file-height="751" /></a></span> </td> <td>Erik Satie </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td>Pablo Picasso </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_pas_d%27acier_(Prokofiev)" title="Le pas d'acier (Prokofiev)">Le pas d'acier</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:G._Yakulov._Le_pas_d%27acier._1927.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/G._Yakulov._Le_pas_d%27acier._1927.jpg/99px-G._Yakulov._Le_pas_d%27acier._1927.jpg" decoding="async" width="99" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/G._Yakulov._Le_pas_d%27acier._1927.jpg/149px-G._Yakulov._Le_pas_d%27acier._1927.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/G._Yakulov._Le_pas_d%27acier._1927.jpg/198px-G._Yakulov._Le_pas_d%27acier._1927.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2184" data-file-height="1522" /></a></span> </td> <td>Sergei Prokofiev </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgy_Bogdanovich_Yakulov" title="Georgy Bogdanovich Yakulov">Georgy Yakulov</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1928 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Ode_(ballet)" title="Ode (ballet)">Ode</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Nabokov" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikolai Nabokov">Nikolai Nabokov</a> </td> <td>Léonide Massine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pavel_Tchelitchew" title="Pavel Tchelitchew">Pavel Tchelitchev</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Apollon_musag%C3%A8te" class="mw-redirect" title="Apollon musagète">Apollon musagète (Apollo)</a></i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Ballets_Russes_-_Apollo_musag%C3%A8te.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Ballets_Russes_-_Apollo_musag%C3%A8te.jpg/99px-Ballets_Russes_-_Apollo_musag%C3%A8te.jpg" decoding="async" width="99" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Ballets_Russes_-_Apollo_musag%C3%A8te.jpg/149px-Ballets_Russes_-_Apollo_musag%C3%A8te.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Ballets_Russes_-_Apollo_musag%C3%A8te.jpg/198px-Ballets_Russes_-_Apollo_musag%C3%A8te.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="474" /></a></span> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>George Balanchine </td> <td>André Bauschant (scene) <p><a href="/wiki/Coco_Chanel" title="Coco Chanel">Coco Chanel</a> (costumes) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>The Gods Go A-Begging</i> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Tatiana_Riabouchinska_and_Roman_Jasinsky_in_Les_Dieux_mendiants_(The_Gods_go_a-begging),_between_Nov_1938-Aug_1940_-_photograph_by_Max_Dupain_(4051611764).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Tatiana_Riabouchinska_and_Roman_Jasinsky_in_Les_Dieux_mendiants_%28The_Gods_go_a-begging%29%2C_between_Nov_1938-Aug_1940_-_photograph_by_Max_Dupain_%284051611764%29.jpg/99px-Tatiana_Riabouchinska_and_Roman_Jasinsky_in_Les_Dieux_mendiants_%28The_Gods_go_a-begging%29%2C_between_Nov_1938-Aug_1940_-_photograph_by_Max_Dupain_%284051611764%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="99" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Tatiana_Riabouchinska_and_Roman_Jasinsky_in_Les_Dieux_mendiants_%28The_Gods_go_a-begging%29%2C_between_Nov_1938-Aug_1940_-_photograph_by_Max_Dupain_%284051611764%29.jpg/149px-Tatiana_Riabouchinska_and_Roman_Jasinsky_in_Les_Dieux_mendiants_%28The_Gods_go_a-begging%29%2C_between_Nov_1938-Aug_1940_-_photograph_by_Max_Dupain_%284051611764%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Tatiana_Riabouchinska_and_Roman_Jasinsky_in_Les_Dieux_mendiants_%28The_Gods_go_a-begging%29%2C_between_Nov_1938-Aug_1940_-_photograph_by_Max_Dupain_%284051611764%29.jpg/198px-Tatiana_Riabouchinska_and_Roman_Jasinsky_in_Les_Dieux_mendiants_%28The_Gods_go_a-begging%29%2C_between_Nov_1938-Aug_1940_-_photograph_by_Max_Dupain_%284051611764%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1265" data-file-height="1319" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel" title="George Frideric Handel">George Frederic Handel</a> </td> <td>George Balanchine </td> <td>Léon Bakst (sets) <p>Juan Gris (costumes) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1929 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Bal_(ballet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Bal (ballet)">Le Bal</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Vittorio Rieti </td> <td>George Balanchine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico" title="Giorgio de Chirico">Giorgio de Chirico</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Renard</i> (revival) </td> <td> </td> <td>Igor Stravinsky </td> <td>Serge Lifar </td> <td>Mikhail Larionov </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Prodigal_Son_(ballet)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Prodigal Son (ballet)">Le fils prodigue</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Sergei Prokofiev </td> <td>George Balanchine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georges_Rouault" title="Georges Rouault">Georges Rouault</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Successors">Successors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Successors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Original_Ballet_Russe" title="Original Ballet Russe">Original Ballet Russe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ballet_Russe_de_Monte_Carlo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo">Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dimitri_Rostoff_as_Malatesta_in_Francesca_da_Rimini,_Original_Ballet_Russe,_1940._(6173568085)_retouched.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Dimitri_Rostoff_as_Malatesta_in_Francesca_da_Rimini%2C_Original_Ballet_Russe%2C_1940._%286173568085%29_retouched.jpg/200px-Dimitri_Rostoff_as_Malatesta_in_Francesca_da_Rimini%2C_Original_Ballet_Russe%2C_1940._%286173568085%29_retouched.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Dimitri_Rostoff_as_Malatesta_in_Francesca_da_Rimini%2C_Original_Ballet_Russe%2C_1940._%286173568085%29_retouched.jpg/300px-Dimitri_Rostoff_as_Malatesta_in_Francesca_da_Rimini%2C_Original_Ballet_Russe%2C_1940._%286173568085%29_retouched.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Dimitri_Rostoff_as_Malatesta_in_Francesca_da_Rimini%2C_Original_Ballet_Russe%2C_1940._%286173568085%29_retouched.jpg/400px-Dimitri_Rostoff_as_Malatesta_in_Francesca_da_Rimini%2C_Original_Ballet_Russe%2C_1940._%286173568085%29_retouched.jpg 2x" data-file-width="702" data-file-height="994" /></a><figcaption>Dimitri Rostoff as Malatesta in <a href="/wiki/Francesca_da_Rimini_(Tchaikovsky)" title="Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky)"><i>Francesca da Rimini</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Original_Ballet_Russe" title="Original Ballet Russe">Original Ballet Russe</a>, 1940</figcaption></figure> <p>When Sergei Diaghilev died of diabetes in Venice on 19 August 1929, the Ballets Russes was left with substantial debts. As the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a> began, its property was claimed by its creditors and the company of dancers dispersed. </p><p>In 1931, Colonel <a href="/wiki/Wassily_de_Basil" title="Wassily de Basil">Wassily de Basil</a> (a Russian émigré entrepreneur from Paris) and <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Blum_(ballet)" class="mw-redirect" title="René Blum (ballet)">René Blum</a> (ballet director at the <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Opera" class="mw-redirect" title="Monte Carlo Opera">Monte Carlo Opera</a>) founded the <a href="/wiki/Original_Ballet_Russe" title="Original Ballet Russe">Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo</a>, giving its first performances there in 1932.<sup id="cite_ref-Amanda_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amanda-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diaghilev alumni <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9onide_Massine" title="Léonide Massine">Léonide Massine</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Balanchine" title="George Balanchine">George Balanchine</a> worked as choreographers with the company and <a href="/wiki/Tamara_Toumanova" title="Tamara Toumanova">Tamara Toumanova</a> was a principal dancer. </p><p>Artistic differences led to a split between Blum and de Basil,<sup id="cite_ref-Homans_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Homans-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after which de Basil renamed his company initially "Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil".<sup id="cite_ref-Answers_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Answers-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blum retained the name "Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo", while de Basil created a new company. In 1938, he called it "The Covent Garden Russian Ballet"<sup id="cite_ref-Answers_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Answers-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then renamed it the "<a href="/wiki/Original_Ballet_Russe" title="Original Ballet Russe">Original Ballet Russe</a>" in 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-Answers_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Answers-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Col de Basil's company was run by famed promoter <a href="/wiki/Fortune_Gallo" title="Fortune Gallo">Fortune Gallo</a> for a year after losing their manager.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> began, the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_Russe_de_Monte_Carlo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo">Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo</a> left Europe and toured extensively in the United States and South America. As dancers retired and left the company, they often founded dance studios in the United States or South America or taught at other former company dancers' studios. With Balanchine's founding of the <a href="/wiki/School_of_American_Ballet" title="School of American Ballet">School of American Ballet</a>, and later the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Ballet" title="New York City Ballet">New York City Ballet</a>, many outstanding former Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers went to New York to teach in his school. When they toured the United States, <a href="/wiki/Cyd_Charisse" title="Cyd Charisse">Cyd Charisse</a>, the film actress and dancer, was taken into the cast. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Original_Ballet_Russe" title="Original Ballet Russe">Original Ballet Russe</a> toured mostly in Europe. Its alumni were influential in teaching classical Russian ballet technique in European schools. </p><p>The successor companies were the subject of the 2005 documentary film <i><a href="/wiki/Ballets_Russes_(film)" title="Ballets Russes (film)">Ballets Russes</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_dancers">The dancers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The dancers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ballets_Russes_Apollon_1928.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="ballet dancers posing in a montage" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Ballets_Russes_Apollon_1928.jpg/220px-Ballets_Russes_Apollon_1928.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Ballets_Russes_Apollon_1928.jpg/330px-Ballets_Russes_Apollon_1928.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Ballets_Russes_Apollon_1928.jpg/440px-Ballets_Russes_Apollon_1928.jpg 2x" data-file-width="662" data-file-height="775" /></a><figcaption>Scene from <i><a href="/wiki/Apollon_musag%C3%A8te" class="mw-redirect" title="Apollon musagète">Apollon musagète</a></i>, 1928. Dancers: <a href="/wiki/Serge_Lifar" title="Serge Lifar">Serge Lifar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Danilova" title="Alexandra Danilova">Danilova</a>, Chernysheva, <a href="/wiki/Felia_Doubrovska" title="Felia Doubrovska">Dubrovska</a>, Petrova</figcaption></figure> <p>The Ballets Russes was noted for the high standard of its dancers, most of whom had been classically trained at the great Imperial schools in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Their high technical standards contributed a great deal to the company's success in Paris, where dance technique had declined markedly since the 1830s. </p><p>Principal female dancers included: <a href="/wiki/Anna_Pavlova" title="Anna Pavlova">Anna Pavlova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamara_Karsavina" title="Tamara Karsavina">Tamara Karsavina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olga_Spessivtseva" title="Olga Spessivtseva">Olga Spessivtseva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mathilde_Kschessinska" title="Mathilde Kschessinska">Mathilde Kschessinska</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ida_Rubinstein" title="Ida Rubinstein">Ida Rubinstein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bronislava_Nijinska" title="Bronislava Nijinska">Bronislava Nijinska</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lydia_Lopokova" title="Lydia Lopokova">Lydia Lopokova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Pflanz" title="Sophie Pflanz">Sophie Pflanz</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alicia_Markova" title="Alicia Markova">Alicia Markova</a>, among others; many earned international renown with the company, including <a href="/wiki/Ekaterina_Galanta" title="Ekaterina Galanta">Ekaterina Galanta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Valentina_Kachouba" title="Valentina Kachouba">Valentina Kachouba</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prima ballerina <a href="/wiki/Xenia_Makletzova" title="Xenia Makletzova">Xenia Makletzova</a> was dismissed from the company in 1916 and sued by Diaghilev; she countersued for breach of contract, and won $4500 in a Massachusetts court.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Ballets Russes was even more remarkable for raising the status of the male dancer, largely ignored by choreographers and ballet audiences since the early 19th century. Among the male dancers were <a href="/wiki/Michel_Fokine" title="Michel Fokine">Michel Fokine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serge_Lifar" title="Serge Lifar">Serge Lifar</a>, <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9onide_Massine" title="Léonide Massine">Léonide Massine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anton_Dolin_(ballet_dancer)" title="Anton Dolin (ballet dancer)">Anton Dolin</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Balanchine" title="George Balanchine">George Balanchine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Valentin_Zeglovsky" title="Valentin Zeglovsky">Valentin Zeglovsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Kosloff" title="Theodore Kosloff">Theodore Kosloff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Bolm" title="Adolph Bolm">Adolph Bolm</a>, and the legendary <a href="/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky" title="Vaslav Nijinsky">Vaslav Nijinsky</a>, considered the most popular and talented dancer in the company's history. </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Revolution of 1917">Russian Revolution of 1917</a>, in later years, younger dancers were taken from those trained in Paris by former Imperial dancers, within the large community of Russian exiles. Recruits were even accepted from America and included a young <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Page_(ballerina)" title="Ruth Page (ballerina)">Ruth Page</a> who joined the troupe in Monte Carlo during 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Choreographers">Choreographers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Choreographers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The company featured and premiered now-famous (and sometimes notorious) works by the great <a href="/wiki/Choreography" title="Choreography">choreographers</a> <a href="/wiki/Marius_Petipa" title="Marius Petipa">Marius Petipa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michel_Fokine" title="Michel Fokine">Michel Fokine</a>, as well as new works by <a href="/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky" title="Vaslav Nijinsky">Vaslav Nijinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bronislava_Nijinska" title="Bronislava Nijinska">Bronislava Nijinska</a>, <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9onide_Massine" title="Léonide Massine">Léonide Massine</a>, and the young <a href="/wiki/George_Balanchine" title="George Balanchine">George Balanchine</a> at the start of his career. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Michel_Fokine">Michel Fokine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Michel Fokine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The choreography of <a href="/wiki/Michel_Fokine" title="Michel Fokine">Michel Fokine</a> was of paramount importance in the initial success of the Ballets Russes. Fokine had graduated from the Imperial Ballet School in Saint Petersburg in 1898, and eventually become First Soloist at the <a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Mariinsky Theater">Mariinsky Theater</a>. In 1907, Fokine choreographed his first work for the Imperial Russian Ballet, <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Pavillon_d%27Armide" title="Le Pavillon d'Armide">Le Pavillon d'Armide</a></i>. In the same year, he created <i>Chopiniana</i> to piano music by the composer <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin" title="Frédéric Chopin">Frédéric Chopin</a> as orchestrated by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Glazunov" title="Alexander Glazunov">Alexander Glazunov</a>. This was an early example of creating choreography to an existing score rather than to music specifically written for the ballet, a departure from the normal practice at the time. </p><p>Fokine established an international reputation with his works choreographed during the first four seasons (1909–1912) of the Ballets Russes. These included the <i><a href="/wiki/Polovtsian_Dances" title="Polovtsian Dances">Polovtsian Dances</a></i> (from <i><a href="/wiki/Prince_Igor" title="Prince Igor">Prince Igor</a></i>), <i>Le Pavillon d'Armide</i> (a revival of his 1907 production for the Imperial Russian Ballet), <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Sylphides" title="Les Sylphides">Les Sylphides</a></i> (a reworking of his earlier <i>Chopiniana</i>), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Firebird" title="The Firebird">The Firebird</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Spectre_de_la_Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Spectre de la Rose">Le Spectre de la Rose</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Petrushka" title="Petrushka">Petrushka</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Daphnis_and_Chlo%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Daphnis and Chloé">Daphnis and Chloé</a></i> . After a longstanding tumultuous relationship with Diaghilev, Fokine left the Ballets Russes at the end of the 1912 season.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vaslav_Nijinsky">Vaslav Nijinsky</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Vaslav Nijinsky"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nijinsky_in_Scheherazade2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Nijinsky_in_Scheherazade2.jpg/200px-Nijinsky_in_Scheherazade2.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Nijinsky_in_Scheherazade2.jpg/300px-Nijinsky_in_Scheherazade2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Nijinsky_in_Scheherazade2.jpg/400px-Nijinsky_in_Scheherazade2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="2360" /></a><figcaption>Vaslav Nijinsky in <i><a href="/wiki/Scheherazade_(Rimsky-Korsakov)" title="Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)">Scheherazade</a></i> </figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky" title="Vaslav Nijinsky">Vaslav Nijinsky</a> had attended the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Ballet_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Ballet School">Imperial Ballet School</a>, St. Petersburg since the age of eight. He graduated in 1907 and joined the Imperial Ballet where he immediately began to take starring roles. Diaghilev invited him to join the Ballets Russes for its first Paris season. </p><p>In 1912, Diaghilev gave Nijinsky his first opportunity as a choreographer, for his production of <i><a href="/wiki/Afternoon_of_a_Faun_(Nijinsky)" title="Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky)">L'Après-midi d'un faune</a></i> to <a href="/wiki/Claude_Debussy" title="Claude Debussy">Claude Debussy</a>'s symphonic poem <i><a href="/wiki/Pr%C3%A9lude_%C3%A0_l%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune" title="Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune">Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune</a></i>. Featuring Nijinsky himself as the Faun, the ballet's frankly erotic nature caused a sensation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The following year, Nijinsky choreographed a new work by Debussy composed expressly for the Ballets Russes, <i><a href="/wiki/Jeux" title="Jeux">Jeux</a></i>. Indifferently received by the public, <i>Jeux</i> was eclipsed two weeks later by the premiere of <a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring" title="The Rite of Spring">The Rite of Spring</a></i> (<i>Le Sacre du printemps</i>), also choreographed by Nijinsky. </p><p>Nijinsky eventually retired from dance and choreography, after he was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Schizophrenia" title="Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a> in 1919. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Léonide_Massine"><span id="L.C3.A9onide_Massine"></span>Léonide Massine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Léonide Massine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9onide_Massine" title="Léonide Massine">Léonide Massine</a> was born in Moscow,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he studied both acting and dancing at the Imperial School. On the verge of becoming an actor, Massine was invited by Sergei Diaghilev to join the Ballets Russes, as he was seeking a replacement for Vaslav Nijinsky. Diaghilev encouraged Massine's creativity and his entry into choreography. </p><p>Massine's most famous creations for the Ballets Russes were <i><a href="/wiki/Parade_(ballet)" title="Parade (ballet)">Parade</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/El_sombrero_de_tres_picos" class="mw-redirect" title="El sombrero de tres picos">El sombrero de tres picos</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Pulcinella" title="Pulcinella">Pulcinella</a></i>. In all three of these works, he collaborated with <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, who designed the sets and costumes. </p><p> Massine extended Fokine's choreographic innovations, especially those relating to narrative and character. His ballets incorporated both folk dance and <i>demi-charactère</i> dance, a style using classical technique to perform <a href="/wiki/Character_dance" title="Character dance">character dance</a>. Massine created contrasts in his choreography, such as synchronized yet individual movement, or small-group dance patterns within the <i><a href="/wiki/Corps_de_ballet" title="Corps de ballet">corps de ballet</a></i>.</p><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Saison_Russe_1913,_Petrouchka,_MS_Thr_965_(7)_retouched.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Saison_Russe_1913%2C_Petrouchka%2C_MS_Thr_965_%287%29_retouched.jpg/180px-Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Saison_Russe_1913%2C_Petrouchka%2C_MS_Thr_965_%287%29_retouched.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="246" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Saison_Russe_1913%2C_Petrouchka%2C_MS_Thr_965_%287%29_retouched.jpg/270px-Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Saison_Russe_1913%2C_Petrouchka%2C_MS_Thr_965_%287%29_retouched.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Saison_Russe_1913%2C_Petrouchka%2C_MS_Thr_965_%287%29_retouched.jpg/360px-Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Saison_Russe_1913%2C_Petrouchka%2C_MS_Thr_965_%287%29_retouched.jpg 2x" data-file-width="642" data-file-height="876" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bronislava_Nijinska" title="Bronislava Nijinska">Bronislava Nijinska</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)" title="Petrushka (ballet)">Petrushka</a></i></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bronislava_Nijinska">Bronislava Nijinska</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Bronislava Nijinska"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bronislava_Nijinska" title="Bronislava Nijinska">Bronislava Nijinska</a> was the younger sister of <a href="/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky" title="Vaslav Nijinsky">Vaslav Nijinsky</a>. She trained at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, joining the Imperial Ballet company in 1908. From 1909, she (like her brother) was a member of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. </p><p>In 1915, Nijinska and her husband fled to Kiev to escape World War I. There, she founded the École de movement, where she trained Ukrainian artists in modern dance. Her most prominent pupil was <a href="/wiki/Serge_Lifar" title="Serge Lifar">Serge Lifar</a> (who later joined the Ballets Russes in 1923). </p><p>Following the Russian Revolution, Nijinska fled again to Poland, and then, in 1921, re-joined the Ballets Russes in Paris. In 1923, Diaghilev assigned her the choreography of Stravinsky's <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Noces" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Noces">Les Noces</a>.</i> The result combines elements of her brother's choreography for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring" title="The Rite of Spring">The Rite of Spring</a></i> with more traditional aspects of ballet, such as dancing <i><a href="/wiki/Pointe_technique" title="Pointe technique">en pointe</a>.</i> The following year, she choreographed three new works for the company: <i><a href="/wiki/Les_biches" title="Les biches">Les biches</a></i>, <i>Les Fâcheux</i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Train_Bleu_(ballet)" title="Le Train Bleu (ballet)">Le train bleu</a></i>. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="George_Balanchine">George Balanchine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: George Balanchine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born Giorgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, <a href="/wiki/George_Balanchine" title="George Balanchine">George Balanchine</a> was trained at the Imperial School of Ballet. His education there was interrupted by the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Revolution of 1917">Russian Revolution of 1917</a>. Balanchine graduated in 1921, after the school reopened. He subsequently studied music theory, composition, and advanced piano at the <a href="/wiki/Petrograd_Conservatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrograd Conservatory">Petrograd Conservatory</a>, graduating in 1923. During this time, he worked with the <i>corps de ballet</i> of the <a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Mariinsky Theater">Mariinsky Theater</a>. In 1924, Balanchine (and his first wife, ballerina <a href="/wiki/Tamara_Geva" title="Tamara Geva">Tamara Geva</a>) fled to Paris while on tour of Germany with the Soviet State Dancers. He was invited by Sergei Diaghilev to join the Ballets Russes as a choreographer.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_designers">The designers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: The designers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diaghilev invited the collaboration of contemporary fine artists in the design of sets and costumes. These included <a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Benois" title="Alexandre Benois">Alexandre Benois</a>, <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bakst" title="Léon Bakst">Léon Bakst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Roerich" title="Nicholas Roerich">Nicholas Roerich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georges_Braque" title="Georges Braque">Georges Braque</a>, <a href="/wiki/Natalia_Goncharova" title="Natalia Goncharova">Natalia Goncharova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Larionov" title="Mikhail Larionov">Mikhail Larionov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coco_Chanel" title="Coco Chanel">Coco Chanel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse">Henri Matisse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Derain" title="André Derain">André Derain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3" title="Joan Miró">Joan Miró</a>, <a href="/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico" title="Giorgio de Chirico">Giorgio de Chirico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD" title="Salvador Dalí">Salvador Dalí</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Bilibin" title="Ivan Bilibin">Ivan Bilibin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juan_Gris" title="Juan Gris">Juan Gris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Tchelitchev" class="mw-redirect" title="Pavel Tchelitchev">Pavel Tchelitchev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Utrillo" title="Maurice Utrillo">Maurice Utrillo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Georges_Rouault" title="Georges Rouault">Georges Rouault</a>. </p><p>Their designs contributed to the groundbreaking excitement of the company's productions. The scandal caused by the premiere performance in Paris of Stravinsky's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring" title="The Rite of Spring">The Rite of Spring</a></i> has been partly attributed to the provocative aesthetic of the costumes of the Ballets Russes.<sup id="cite_ref-Albert_2010_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Albert_2010-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While they created amazing works most of the designers were not trained in theater but started out as studio painters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alexandre_Benois">Alexandre Benois</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Alexandre Benois"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Benois" title="Alexandre Benois">Alexandre Benois</a> had been the most influential member of The <a href="/wiki/Nevsky_Pickwickians" title="Nevsky Pickwickians">Nevsky Pickwickians</a> and was one of the original founders (with Bakst and Diaghilev) of <i><a href="/wiki/Mir_iskusstva" title="Mir iskusstva">Mir iskusstva</a></i>. His particular interest in ballet as an art form strongly influenced Diaghilev and was seminal in the formation of the Ballets Russes. Benois was also focused on historical accuracy and had an extensive knowledge of fashion history. In addition, Benois contributed scenic and costume designs to several of the company's earlier productions: <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Pavillon_d%27Armide" title="Le Pavillon d'Armide">Le Pavillon d'Armide</a></i>, portions of <i>Le Festin</i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Giselle" title="Giselle">Giselle</a></i>. Benois also participated with <a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michel_Fokine" title="Michel Fokine">Michel Fokine</a> in the creation of <i><a href="/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)" title="Petrushka (ballet)">Petrushka</a></i>, to which he contributed much of the scenario as well as the stage sets and costumes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Léon_Bakst"><span id="L.C3.A9on_Bakst"></span>Léon Bakst</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Léon Bakst"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bakst" title="Léon Bakst">Léon Bakst</a> was also an original member of both The <a href="/wiki/Nevsky_Pickwickians" title="Nevsky Pickwickians">Nevsky Pickwickians</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Mir_iskusstva" title="Mir iskusstva">Mir iskusstva</a></i>. “He regarded the nude body as an aesthetic totality whose artistry had been forgotten under the weight of nineteenth century social and theatrical dress".”<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He participated as designer in productions of the Ballets Russes from its beginning in 1909 until 1921, creating sets and costumes for <i><a href="/wiki/Scheherazade_(ballet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scheherazade (ballet)">Scheherazade</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Firebird" title="The Firebird">The Firebird</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/%22Les_Orientales%22" class="mw-redirect" title=""Les Orientales""><i>Les Orientales</i></a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Spectre_de_la_rose" title="Le Spectre de la rose">Le Spectre de la rose</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Afternoon_of_a_Faun_(Nijinsky)" title="Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky)">L'Après-midi d'une faune</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%A9" title="Daphnis et Chloé">Daphnis et Chloé</a></i>, among other productions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pablo_Picasso">Pablo Picasso</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Pablo Picasso"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Picasso_and_the_Ballets_Russes" title="Picasso and the Ballets Russes">Picasso and the Ballets Russes</a></div> <p>In 1917, <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a> designed sets and costumes in the <a href="/wiki/Cubist" class="mw-redirect" title="Cubist">Cubist</a> style for three Diaghilev ballets, all with choreography by <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9onide_Massine" title="Léonide Massine">Léonide Massine</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Parade_(ballet)" title="Parade (ballet)">Parade</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/El_sombrero_de_tres_picos" class="mw-redirect" title="El sombrero de tres picos">El sombrero de tres picos</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Pulcinella" title="Pulcinella">Pulcinella</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Natalia_Goncharova">Natalia Goncharova</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Natalia Goncharova"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Natalia_Goncharova" title="Natalia Goncharova">Natalia Goncharova</a> was born in 1881 near <a href="/wiki/Tula,_Russia" title="Tula, Russia">Tula, Russia</a>. Her art was inspired by Russian folk art, <a href="/wiki/Fauvism" title="Fauvism">Fauvism</a>, and cubism. She began designing for the Ballets Russes in 1921. </p><p>Although the Ballets Russes firmly established the 20th-century tradition of fine art theatre design, the company was not unique in its employment of fine artists. For instance, <a href="/wiki/Savva_Mamontov" title="Savva Mamontov">Savva Mamontov</a>'s Private Opera Company had made a policy of employing fine artists, such as <a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Korovin" title="Konstantin Korovin">Konstantin Korovin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Golovin_(artist)" title="Aleksandr Golovin (artist)">Golovin</a>, who went on to work for the Ballets Russes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Composers_and_conductors">Composers and conductors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Composers and conductors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Petrouchka.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Petrouchka.jpg/164px-Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Petrouchka.jpg" decoding="async" width="164" height="350" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Petrouchka.jpg/246px-Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Petrouchka.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Petrouchka.jpg/328px-Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Petrouchka.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1119" data-file-height="2385" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a> with <a href="/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky" title="Vaslav Nijinsky">Vaslav Nijinsky</a> in costume for <i><a href="/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)" title="Petrushka (ballet)">Petrushka</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>For his new productions, Diaghilev commissioned the foremost composers of the 20th century, including: <a href="/wiki/Claude_Debussy" title="Claude Debussy">Debussy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Darius_Milhaud" title="Darius Milhaud">Milhaud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Poulenc" title="Francis Poulenc">Poulenc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev" title="Sergei Prokofiev">Prokofiev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Ravel" title="Maurice Ravel">Ravel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erik_Satie" title="Erik Satie">Satie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ottorino_Respighi" title="Ottorino Respighi">Respighi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Stravinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manuel_de_Falla" title="Manuel de Falla">de Falla</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Strauss" title="Richard Strauss">Strauss</a>. He was also responsible for commissioning the first two significant British-composed ballets: <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> (composed in 1925 by nineteen-year-old <a href="/wiki/Constant_Lambert" title="Constant Lambert">Constant Lambert</a>) and <i>The Triumph of Neptune</i> (composed in 1926 by <a href="/wiki/Lord_Berners" title="Lord Berners">Lord Berners</a>). </p><p>The impresario also engaged conductors who were or became eminent in their field during the 20th century, including <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Monteux" title="Pierre Monteux">Pierre Monteux</a> (1911–16 and 1924), <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Ansermet" title="Ernest Ansermet">Ernest Ansermet</a> (1915–23), <a href="/wiki/Edward_Clark_(conductor)" title="Edward Clark (conductor)">Edward Clark</a> (1919–20) and <a href="/wiki/Roger_D%C3%A9sormi%C3%A8re" title="Roger Désormière">Roger Désormière</a> (1925–29).<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Igor_Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Igor Stravinsky"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diaghilev hired the young Stravinsky at a time when he was virtually unknown to compose the music for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Firebird" title="The Firebird">The Firebird</a></i>, after the composer <a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Lyadov" title="Anatoly Lyadov">Anatoly Lyadov</a> proved unreliable, and this was instrumental in launching Stravinsky's career in Europe and the United States of America. </p><p>Stravinsky's early ballet scores were the subject of much discussion. <i>The Firebird</i> (1910) was seen as an astonishingly accomplished work for such a young artist (<a href="/wiki/Claude_Debussy" title="Claude Debussy">Debussy</a> is said to have remarked drily: "Well, you've got to start somewhere!"). Many contemporary audiences found <i><a href="/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)" title="Petrushka (ballet)">Petrushka</a></i> (1911) to be almost unbearably dissonant and confused. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring" title="The Rite of Spring">The Rite of Spring</a></i> (1913) nearly caused an audience riot. It stunned people because of its willful rhythms and aggressive dynamics. The audience's negative reaction to it is now regarded as a theatrical scandal as notorious as the failed runs of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Richard Wagner</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user_(opera)" title="Tannhäuser (opera)">Tannhäuser</a></i> at Paris in 1861 and <a href="/wiki/Jean-Georges_Noverre" title="Jean-Georges Noverre">Jean-Georges Noverre</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Les_F%C3%AAtes_Chinoises" title="Les Fêtes Chinoises">Les Fêtes Chinoises</a></i> in London on the eve of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>. However, Stravinsky's early ballet scores are now widely considered masterpieces of the genre.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_of_a_performance">Film of a performance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Film of a performance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diaghilev always maintained that no camera could ever do justice to the artistry of his dancers, and it was long believed there was no film legacy of the Ballets Russes. However, in 2011 a 30-second newsreel film of a performance in <a href="/wiki/Montreux" title="Montreux">Montreux</a>, Switzerland, in June 1928 came to light. The ballet was <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Sylphides" title="Les Sylphides">Les Sylphides</a></i> and the lead dancer was identified as <a href="/wiki/Serge_Lifar" title="Serge Lifar">Serge Lifar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Centennial_exhibitions_and_celebrations">Centennial exhibitions and celebrations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Centennial exhibitions and celebrations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russia-2000-stamp-Sergei_Diaghilev.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Stamp with drawings of Diaghilev and several ballet dancers" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Russia-2000-stamp-Sergei_Diaghilev.jpg/220px-Russia-2000-stamp-Sergei_Diaghilev.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Russia-2000-stamp-Sergei_Diaghilev.jpg/330px-Russia-2000-stamp-Sergei_Diaghilev.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Russia-2000-stamp-Sergei_Diaghilev.jpg/440px-Russia-2000-stamp-Sergei_Diaghilev.jpg 2x" data-file-width="719" data-file-height="516" /></a><figcaption>Russian stamp: <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Diaghilev" title="Sergei Diaghilev">Sergei Diaghilev</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Paris, 2008</b>: In September 2008, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Ballets Russes, <a href="/wiki/Sotheby%27s" title="Sotheby's">Sotheby's</a> announced the staging of an exceptional exhibition of works lent mainly by French, British and Russian private collectors, museums and foundations. Some 150 paintings, designs, costumes, theatre decors, drawings, sculptures, photographs, manuscripts, and programs were exhibited in Paris, retracing the key moments in the history of the Ballets Russes. On display were costumes designed by <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Derain" title="André Derain">André Derain</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/La_Boutique_fantasque" title="La Boutique fantasque">La Boutique fantasque</a></i>, 1919) and <a href="/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse">Henri Matisse</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Le_chant_du_rossignol" title="Le chant du rossignol">Le chant du rossignol</a></i>, 1920), and <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bakst" title="Léon Bakst">Léon Bakst</a>. </p><p>Posters recalling the surge of creativity that surrounded the Ballets Russes included <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>'s iconic image of the Chinese Conjuror for the audacious production of <i><a href="/wiki/Parade_(ballet)" title="Parade (ballet)">Parade</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Cocteau" title="Jean Cocteau">Jean Cocteau</a>'s poster for <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Spectre_de_la_rose" title="Le Spectre de la rose">Le Spectre de la rose</a></i>. Costumes and stage designs presented included works by <a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Benois" title="Alexandre Benois">Alexander Benois</a>, for <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Pavillon_d%27Armide" title="Le Pavillon d'Armide">Le Pavillon d'Armide</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)" title="Petrushka (ballet)">Petrushka</a></i>; Léon Bakst, for <i><a href="/wiki/La_P%C3%A9ri_(Dukas)" title="La Péri (Dukas)">La Péri</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Dieu_bleu" title="Le Dieu bleu">Le Dieu bleu</a></i>; <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Larionov" title="Mikhail Larionov">Mikhail Larionov</a>, for <i>Le Soleil à Minuit</i>; and <a href="/wiki/Natalia_Goncharova" title="Natalia Goncharova">Natalia Goncharova</a>, for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Firebird" title="The Firebird">The Firebird</a></i> (1925 version). The exhibition also included important contemporary artists, whose works reflected the visual heritage of the Ballets Russes – notably an installation made of colorfully painted paper by the renowned Belgian artist <a href="/wiki/Isabelle_de_Borchgrave" title="Isabelle de Borchgrave">Isabelle de Borchgrave</a>, and items from the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Porcelain_Factory,_Saint_Petersburg" title="Imperial Porcelain Factory, Saint Petersburg">Imperial Porcelain Factory</a> in St. Petersburg.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Monte-Carlo, 2009</b>: In May, in Monaco, two postage stamps <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130927035505/http://www.assolazurtourism.com/resources/_wsb_284x352_shishkin_timbre2_site.jpg">"Centenary of Ballets Russians of Diaghilev"</a> went out, created by <a href="/wiki/Georgy_Shishkin" title="Georgy Shishkin">Georgy Shishkin</a>. </p><p><b>London, 2010–11</b>: London's <a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a> presented a special exhibition entitled <i>Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929</i> at the V&A South Kensington between 5 September 2010 and 9 January 2011. </p><p><b>Canberra, 2010–11</b>: An exhibition of the company's costumes held by the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Australia" title="National Gallery of Australia">National Gallery of Australia</a> was held from 10 December 2010 – 1 May 2011 at the Gallery in <a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a>. Entitled <i>Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume</i>, it included 150 costumes and accessories from 34 productions from 1909 to 1939; one third of the costumes had not been seen since they were last worn on stage. Along with costumes by Natalia Goncharova, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André Derain, <a href="/wiki/Georges_Braque" title="Georges Braque">Georges Braque</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Masson" title="André Masson">André Masson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico" title="Giorgio de Chirico">Giorgio de Chirico</a>, the exhibition also featured photographs, film, music and artists’ drawings.<sup id="cite_ref-Exhibition_catalogue_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Exhibition_catalogue-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Washington, DC, 2013</b>: <i>Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music.</i> <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a>, East Building Mezzanine. 12 May— 2 September 2013. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Washington.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/diaghilev.html">[1]</a> </p><p><b>Stockholm, 2014–2015</b>: <i>Sleeping Beauties – Dreams and Costumes</i>. The Dance Museum in Stockholm owns about 250 original costumes from the Ballets Russes, in this exhibition about fifty of them are shown. (www.dansmuseet.se) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_productions_of_Swan_Lake_derived_from_its_1895_revival" title="List of productions of Swan Lake derived from its 1895 revival">List of productions of Swan Lake derived from its 1895 revival</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Notes</dt></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998vii-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarafola1998vii_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGarafola1998">Garafola 1998</a>, p. vii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/ART309940">"Diaghilev's Golden Age of the Ballets Russes dazzles London with V&A display"</a>. 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Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1979.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThomas_Kelly1999" class="citation web cs1">Thomas Kelly (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/programs/specials/milestones/991110.motm.riteofspring.html">"Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. Washington D.C.: National Public Radio.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Igor+Stravinsky%27s+%22The+Rite+of+Spring%22&rft.place=Washington+D.C.&rft.pub=National+Public+Radio&rft.date=1999&rft.au=Thomas+Kelly&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fprograms%2Fspecials%2Fmilestones%2F991110.motm.riteofspring.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABallets+Russes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jan/31/ballet-russes-captured-on-film">"Ballets Russes brought back to life on film"</a> by <a href="/wiki/Maev_Kennedy" title="Maev Kennedy">Maev Kennedy</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, 1 February 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ballets-russes.com/paris.html">"Dancing into Glory: The Golden Age of the Ballets Russes"</a>. Ballets-Russes.com<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Thames & Hudson UK and University of Washington Press, USA. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-642-54157-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-642-54157-4"><bdi>978-0-642-54157-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ballets+Russes%3A+the+art+of+costume&rft.pub=Thames+%26+Hudson+UK+and+University+of+Washington+Press%2C+USA&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-642-54157-4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABallets+Russes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <dl><dt>Sources</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarafola1998" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Lynn_Garafola" title="Lynn Garafola">Garafola, Lynn</a> (1998). <i>Diaghilev's Ballets Russes</i>. New York: Da Capo Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Diaghilev%27s+Ballets+Russes&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Da+Capo+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.aulast=Garafola&rft.aufirst=Lynn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABallets+Russes" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Anderson, Jack (1992). <i>Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History</i>. New Jersey: Princeton Book Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ballet+and+Modern+Dance%3A+A+Concise+History&rft.place=New+Jersey&rft.pub=Princeton+Book+Company&rft.date=1992&rft.aulast=Anderson&rft.aufirst=Jack&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABallets+Russes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Anderson, Margot, et al. <i>Creative Australia and the Ballets Russes</i>. Published in conjunction with the Exhibition, Arts Centre, Melbourne 2009. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978%2B0%2B9802958%2B1%2B8" title="Special:BookSources/978+0+9802958+1+8">978 0 9802958 1 8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivier_Berggruen" title="Olivier Berggruen">Berggruen, Olivier</a>. <i>The Writing of Art</i> (London: Pushkin Press, 2011)</li> <li>Bell, Robert. <i>Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume</i>. National Gallery of Australia, 2011</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">Christofis, Lee (June 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2009/jun09/the-ballets-russes-in-australia.pdf">"The Ballets Russes in Australia 1936–1940"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>The National Library Magazine</i>. <b>1</b> (2): 21–23<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 January</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+National+Library+Magazine&rft.atitle=The+Ballets+Russes+in+Australia+1936%E2%80%931940&rft.volume=1&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=21-23&rft.date=2009-06&rft.aulast=Christofis&rft.aufirst=Lee&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nla.gov.au%2Fpub%2Fnlanews%2F2009%2Fjun09%2Fthe-ballets-russes-in-australia.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABallets+Russes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Clarke, Mary, and Clement Crisp. <i>Design for Ballet</i>. Studio Vista, 1978.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Lynn_Garafola" title="Lynn Garafola">Garafola, Lynn</a> (1999). <i>The Ballet Russe and its World</i>. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Ballet+Russe+and+its+World&rft.place=New+Haven%2C+Connecticut&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.aulast=Garafola&rft.aufirst=Lynn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABallets+Russes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">Papanikolaou, Eftychia (March 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/7231951">"The Art of the Ballets Russes Captured: Reconstructed Ballet Performances on Video"</a>. <i>Music Library Association Notes</i>. <b>64</b> (3): 564–585.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Music+Library+Association+Notes&rft.atitle=The+Art+of+the+Ballets+Russes+Captured%3A+Reconstructed+Ballet+Performances+on+Video&rft.volume=64&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=564-585&rft.date=2008-03&rft.aulast=Papanikolaou&rft.aufirst=Eftychia&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F7231951&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABallets+Russes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Purvis, Alston (2009). <i>The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design</i>. New York: The Monacelli Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Ballets+Russes+and+the+Art+of+Design&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=The+Monacelli+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.aulast=Purvis&rft.aufirst=Alston&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABallets+Russes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Shead, Richard. <i>Ballets Russes</i>. Wellfleet Press, 1989.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Gosudarstvennyĭ russkiĭ muzeĭ; Foundation for International Arts and Education; Joslyn Art Museum; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum; <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University_Art_Museum" title="Princeton University Art Museum">Princeton University Art Museum</a> (2005). <i>Mir Iskusstva: Russia's Age of Elegance</i>. St. Petersburg, Russia; Omaha, Nebraska; Minneapolis, Minnesote; Princeton, New Jersey: Palace Editions. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780967845135" title="Special:BookSources/9780967845135"><bdi>9780967845135</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/60593691">60593691</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mir+Iskusstva%3A+Russia%27s+Age+of+Elegance&rft.place=St.+Petersburg%2C+Russia%3B+Omaha%2C+Nebraska%3B+Minneapolis%2C+Minnesote%3B+Princeton%2C+New+Jersey&rft.pub=Palace+Editions&rft.date=2005&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F60593691&rft.isbn=9780967845135&rft.au=Gosudarstvenny%C4%AD+russki%C4%AD+muze%C4%AD&rft.au=Foundation+for+International+Arts+and+Education&rft.au=Joslyn+Art+Museum&rft.au=Frederick+R.+Weisman+Art+Museum&rft.au=Princeton+University+Art+Museum&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABallets+Russes" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballets_Russes&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ballets_Russes" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Ballets Russes">Ballets Russes</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <dl><dt>Ballets Russes</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090223084850/http://www.russianballethistory.com/">The History of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1909–1929</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ballets-russes.com/dance.html">Ballet Russe Cultural Partnership website</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishpathe.com/video/festival-of-narcissus">Pathé newsreel extract of <i>Les Sylphides</i> by Ballets Russes</a>, featuring the dancer <a href="/wiki/Serge_Lifar" title="Serge Lifar">Serge Lifar</a>. Festival 'Fetes de Narcisses' in Montreux, Switzerland; June 1928.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/balletsrusses/balletsrusses-home.html">Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev at the Library of Congress</a>: digital exhibition</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200185227/">Ballets Russes, 1928, concert program, Library of Congress</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Olshansky.xml">Eugene Olshansky Production Photographs</a> at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newberry.org">Newberry Library</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Ballets Russes Centennial and other exhibitions</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/from-russia-with-love/">From Russia with love: costumes from the Ballets Russes, 1909–1933</a>, an online exhibition featuring material from the collection of the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Australia" title="National Gallery of Australia">National Gallery of Australia</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121231110009/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/diaghilev/introduction.cfm">Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: 20 Years That Changed The World of Art</a> Online Exhibition, Houghton Library, Harvard University</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130927035505/http://www.assolazurtourism.com/resources/_wsb_284x352_shishkin_timbre2_site.jpg">« Centenary of Ballets Russians of Diaghilev »</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ballets-russes/overview.html">Serge Diaghilev and His World: A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909–1929</a> Library of Congress</li></ul> <dl><dt>Successor companies</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/paminter/imu.php?request=browse&irn=1687">The Ballets Russes in Australia</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160403183811/http://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/paminter/imu.php?request=browse&irn=1687">Archived</a> 2016-04-03 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo materials held in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/paminter/imu.php?request=browse&irn=1903">Performing Arts Collection</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121103092401/http://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/paminter/imu.php?request=browse&irn=1903">Archived</a> 2012-11-03 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, at Arts Centre Melbourne</li></ul> <div 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style="width:1%">Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cairo_Opera_Ballet_Company" title="Cairo Opera Ballet Company">Cairo Opera Ballet Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Town_City_Ballet" title="Cape Town City Ballet">Cape Town City Ballet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Manila" title="Ballet Manila">Ballet Manila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Philippines" title="Ballet Philippines">Ballet Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_Ballet" title="Guangzhou Ballet">Guangzhou Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwangju_City_Ballet" title="Gwangju City Ballet">Gwangju City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Ballet" title="Hong Kong Ballet">Hong Kong Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_National_Ballet_Company" title="Iranian National Ballet Company">Iranian National Ballet Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Ballet" title="Israel Ballet">Israel Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K-ballet" title="K-ballet">K-ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korea_National_Ballet" title="Korea National Ballet">Korea National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ballet_of_China" title="National Ballet of China">National Ballet of China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_National_Theatre_Tokyo" title="New National Theatre Tokyo">New National Theatre Tokyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Ballet_Theatre" title="Philippine Ballet Theatre">Philippine Ballet Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seoul_Ballet_Theatre" title="Seoul Ballet Theatre">Seoul Ballet Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Ballet_Company" title="Shanghai Ballet Company">Shanghai Ballet Company</a></li> <li><a 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title="Les Ballets Persans">Les Ballets Persans</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ballets Russes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barcelona_Ballet" title="Barcelona Ballet">Barcelona Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayerisches_Staatsballett" title="Bayerisches Staatsballett">Bayerisches Staatsballett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9jart_Ballet" title="Béjart Ballet">Béjart Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berlin_State_Ballet" title="Berlin State Ballet">Berlin State Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Royal_Ballet" title="Birmingham Royal Ballet">Birmingham Royal Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolshoi_Ballet" title="Bolshoi Ballet">Bolshoi Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charleroi_Danses" title="Charleroi Danses">Charleroi Danses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cork_City_Ballet" title="Cork City Ballet">Cork City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Danish_Ballet" title="Royal Danish Ballet">Royal Danish Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donetsk_Ballet" title="Donetsk Ballet">Donetsk Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_National_Ballet" title="Dutch National Ballet">Dutch National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Eifman" title="Boris Eifman">Eifman Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_National_Ballet" title="English National Ballet">English National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_National_Ballet" title="Finnish National Ballet">Finnish National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Ballet_of_Flanders" title="Royal Ballet of Flanders">Royal Ballet of Flanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukhishvili_Georgian_National_Ballet" title="Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet">Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Kyiv_Ballet" title="Grand Kyiv Ballet">Grand Kyiv Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_National_Opera" title="Greek National Opera">Greek National Opera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamburg_Ballet" title="Hamburg Ballet">Hamburg Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_National_Ballet" title="Hungarian National Ballet">Hungarian National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Ballet" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyiv Ballet">Kyiv Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_City_Ballet" title="Kyiv City Ballet">Kyiv City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Modern-Ballet" title="Kyiv Modern-Ballet">Kyiv Modern-Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Scala_Theatre_Ballet" title="La Scala Theatre Ballet">La Scala Theatre Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lviv_Theatre_of_Opera_and_Ballet" title="Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet">Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Mariinsky Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhailovsky_Theatre" title="Mikhailovsky Theatre">Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldova_National_Opera_Ballet" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldova National Opera Ballet">National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Ballets_de_Monte_Carlo" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Ballets de Monte Carlo">The Monte-Carlo Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Opera_and_Ballet_of_Bulgaria" title="National Opera and Ballet of Bulgaria">National Opera and Ballet of Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ballet" title="Northern Ballet">Northern Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_National_Opera_and_Ballet" title="Norwegian National Opera and Ballet">Norwegian National Opera and Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novosibirsk_Opera_and_Ballet_Theatre" title="Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre">Novosibirsk Theatre Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odesa_Opera_and_Ballet_Theatre" title="Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre">Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Original_Ballet_Russe" title="Original Ballet Russe">Original Ballet Russe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Opera_Ballet" title="Paris Opera Ballet">Paris Opera Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perm_Opera_and_Ballet_Theatre" title="Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre">Perm Theatre Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_National_Ballet" title="Polish National Ballet">Polish National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ballet_of_Portugal" title="National Ballet of Portugal">National Ballet of Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Royal_Ballet" title="The Royal Ballet">The Royal Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rambert_Dance_Company" title="Rambert Dance Company">Rambert Dance Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_State_Ballet_of_Siberia" title="Russian State Ballet of Siberia">Russian State Ballet of Siberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Petersburg_Ballet_Theatre" title="St Petersburg Ballet Theatre">Saint Petersburg Ballet Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Ballet" title="Scottish Ballet">Scottish Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_National_Dance_Company" title="Spanish National Dance Company">Spanish National Dance Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanislavski_and_Nemirovich-Danchenko_Theatre" title="Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre">Stanislavski Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuttgart_Ballet" title="Stuttgart Ballet">Stuttgart Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Ballet" title="Royal Swedish Ballet">Royal Swedish Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Silence" title="Théâtre du Silence">Théâtre du Silence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_State_Opera_and_Ballet" title="Turkish State Opera and Ballet">Turkish State Opera and Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Ukrainian_Ballet_Company" title="United Ukrainian Ballet Company">United Ukrainian Ballet Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vienna_State_Ballet" title="Vienna State Ballet">Vienna State Ballet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North<br />America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alabama_Ballet" title="Alabama Ballet">Alabama Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alberta_Ballet_Company" title="Alberta Ballet Company">Alberta Ballet Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Ballet" title="Alexandra Ballet">Alexandra Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonzo_King_LINES_Ballet" title="Alonzo King LINES Ballet">Alonzo King LINES Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Ballet_Theatre" title="American Ballet Theatre">American Ballet Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Midwest_Ballet" title="American Midwest Ballet">American Midwest Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Repertory_Ballet" title="American Repertory Ballet">American Repertory Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anaheim_Ballet" title="Anaheim Ballet">Anaheim Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aspen_Santa_Fe_Ballet" title="Aspen Santa Fe Ballet">Aspen Santa Fe Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Ballet" title="Atlanta Ballet">Atlanta Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Festival_Ballet" title="Atlanta Festival Ballet">Atlanta Festival Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Arizona" title="Ballet Arizona">Ballet Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Austin" title="Ballet Austin">Ballet Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_BC" title="Ballet BC">Ballet BC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Des_Moines" title="Ballet Des Moines">Ballet Des Moines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Fantastique" title="Ballet Fantastique">Ballet Fantastique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Hispanico" title="Ballet Hispanico">Ballet Hispanico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Magnificat!" title="Ballet Magnificat!">Ballet Magnificat!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Memphis" title="Ballet Memphis">Ballet Memphis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BalletMet" title="BalletMet">BalletMet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Minnesota" title="Ballet Minnesota">Ballet Minnesota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Quad_Cities" title="Ballet Quad Cities">Ballet Quad Cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_San_Jose" title="Ballet San Jose">Ballet San Jose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Theatre_of_Maryland" title="Ballet Theatre of Maryland">Ballet Theatre of Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Ballets_Trockadero_de_Monte_Carlo" title="Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo">Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_West" title="Ballet West">Ballet West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballez" title="Ballez">Ballez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bay_Pointe_Ballet" title="Bay Pointe Ballet">Bay Pointe Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Ballet" title="Boston Ballet">Boston Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Grands_Ballets_Canadiens" title="Les Grands Ballets Canadiens">Les Grands Ballets Canadiens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Riverside_Ballet" title="California Riverside Ballet">California Riverside Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carolina_Ballet" title="Carolina Ballet">Carolina Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Ballet" title="Charlotte Ballet">Charlotte Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Ballet" title="Chicago Ballet">Chicago Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Festival_Ballet" title="Chicago Festival Ballet">Chicago Festival Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Ballet" title="Cincinnati Ballet">Cincinnati Ballet</a></li> <li>Cleveland Ballet (<a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Ballet_(founded_1935)" title="Cleveland Ballet (founded 1935)">1935</a> <b>·</b> <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Ballet_(founded_1972)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Ballet (founded 1972)">1972</a> <b>·</b> <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Ballet_(founded_2014)" title="Cleveland Ballet (founded 2014)">2014</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Ballet" title="Colorado Ballet">Colorado Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complexions_Contemporary_Ballet" title="Complexions Contemporary Ballet">Complexions Contemporary Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuban_National_Ballet" title="Cuban National Ballet">Cuban National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dance_Theatre_of_Harlem" title="Dance Theatre of Harlem">Dance Theatre of Harlem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayton_Ballet" title="Dayton Ballet">Dayton Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greensboro_Ballet" title="Greensboro Ballet">Greensboro Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston_Ballet" title="Houston Ballet">Houston Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joffrey_Ballet" title="Joffrey Ballet">Joffrey Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Ballet" title="Kansas City Ballet">Kansas City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Ballet" title="Los Angeles Ballet">Los Angeles Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisville_Ballet" title="Louisville Ballet">Louisville Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moscow_Ballet_(United_States)" title="Moscow Ballet (United States)">Moscow Ballet (United States)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ballet_of_Canada" title="National Ballet of Canada">National Ballet of Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ballet_Theater_of_Puerto_Rico" title="National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico">National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Ballet" title="New Jersey Ballet">New Jersey Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Ballet" title="New York City Ballet">New York City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Ballet" title="Oklahoma City Ballet">Oklahoma City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oregon_Ballet_Theatre" title="Oregon Ballet Theatre">Oregon Ballet Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_Ballet" title="Pacific Northwest Ballet">Pacific Northwest Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Ballet" class="mw-redirect" title="Pennsylvania Ballet">Pennsylvania Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Ballet_Theatre" title="Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre">Pittsburgh Ballet</a></li> 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href="/wiki/Melbourne_City_Ballet" title="Melbourne City Ballet">Melbourne City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_New_Zealand_Ballet" title="Royal New Zealand Ballet">Royal New Zealand Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Australian_Ballet" title="West Australian Ballet">West Australian Ballet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South<br />America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Municipal_de_Lima" title="Ballet Municipal de Lima">Ballet Municipal de Lima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilean_National_Ballet" title="Chilean National Ballet">Chilean National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colon_Theater_Ballet" title="Colon Theater Ballet">Colon Theater Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ballet_of_Uruguay" title="National Ballet of Uruguay">National Ballet of Uruguay</a></li></ul> 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Nightingale_(opera)" title="The Nightingale (opera)"><i>The Nightingale</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renard_(Stravinsky)" title="Renard (Stravinsky)"><i>Renard</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Soldier%27s_Tale" class="mw-redirect" title="The Soldier's Tale">The Soldier's Tale</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mavra" title="Mavra">Mavra</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oedipus_rex_(opera)" title="Oedipus rex (opera)"><i>Oedipus rex</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pers%C3%A9phone_(Stravinsky)" title="Perséphone (Stravinsky)"><i>Perséphone</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rake%27s_Progress" title="The Rake's Progress">The Rake's Progress</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Flood_(Stravinsky)" title="The Flood (Stravinsky)"><i>The Flood</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ballets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Firebird" title="The Firebird">The Firebird</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)" title="Petrushka (ballet)">Petrushka</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring" title="The Rite of Spring">The Rite of Spring</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring_discography" title="The Rite of Spring discography">discography</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Les_noces" title="Les noces">Les noces</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pulcinella_(ballet)" title="Pulcinella (ballet)">Pulcinella</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_(ballet)" title="Apollo (ballet)">Apollo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fairy%27s_Kiss" class="mw-redirect" title="The Fairy's Kiss">The Fairy's Kiss</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jeu_de_cartes_(Stravinsky)" title="Jeu de cartes (Stravinsky)">Jeu de cartes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Danses_concertantes_(Stravinsky)" title="Danses concertantes (Stravinsky)">Danses concertantes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_de_ballet_(Stravinsky)" title="Scènes de ballet (Stravinsky)">Scènes de ballet</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orpheus_(ballet)" title="Orpheus (ballet)">Orpheus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Agon_(ballet)" title="Agon (ballet)">Agon</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Symphonies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Symphony_in_E-flat_(Stravinsky)" title="Symphony in E-flat (Stravinsky)">Symphony in E<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-flat">♭</span></span></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Symphony_of_Psalms" title="Symphony of Psalms">Symphony of Psalms</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symphony_in_C_(Stravinsky)" title="Symphony in C (Stravinsky)">Symphony in C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symphony_in_Three_Movements" title="Symphony in Three Movements">Symphony in Three Movements</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Orchestral music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Scherzo_fantastique" title="Scherzo fantastique">Scherzo fantastique</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Feu_d%27artifice" title="Feu d'artifice">Fireworks</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Funeral_Song_(Stravinsky)" title="Funeral Song (Stravinsky)">Funeral Song</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quatre_%C3%A9tudes_(Stravinsky)" title="Quatre études (Stravinsky)">Four Études</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Nightingale" class="mw-redirect" title="The Song of the Nightingale">The Song of the Nightingale</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Circus_Polka" title="Circus Polka">Circus Polka</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ode_(Stravinsky)" title="Ode (Stravinsky)">Ode</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scherzo_%C3%A0_la_russe_(Stravinsky)" title="Scherzo à la russe (Stravinsky)">Scherzo à la russe</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Greeting_Prelude" title="Greeting Prelude">Greeting Prelude</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Variations:_Aldous_Huxley_in_memoriam" title="Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam">Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canon_on_a_Russian_Popular_Tune" title="Canon on a Russian Popular Tune">Canon on a Russian Popular Tune</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concertos</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Concerto_for_Piano_and_Wind_Instruments_(Stravinsky)" title="Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Stravinsky)">Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capriccio_for_Piano_and_Orchestra" title="Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra">Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Stravinsky)" title="Violin Concerto (Stravinsky)">Violin Concerto in D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concerto_in_E-flat_%22Dumbarton_Oaks%22" title="Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks"">Concerto in E<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-flat">♭</span></span> (<i>"Dumbarton Oaks"</i>)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ebony_Concerto_(Stravinsky)" title="Ebony Concerto (Stravinsky)">Ebony Concerto</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Movements_for_Piano_and_Orchestra" title="Movements for Piano and Orchestra">Movements for Piano and Orchestra</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concerto_in_D_(Stravinsky)" title="Concerto in D (Stravinsky)">Concerto in D</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Solo<br /> vocal</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Pastorale_(Stravinsky)" title="Pastorale (Stravinsky)">Pastorale</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pribaoutki" title="Pribaoutki">Pribaoutki</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Berceuses_du_chat" title="Berceuses du chat">Berceuses du chat</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Abraham_and_Isaac_(Stravinsky)" title="Abraham and Isaac (Stravinsky)">Abraham and Isaac</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Elegy_for_J.F.K." title="Elegy for J.F.K.">Elegy for J.F.K.</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Owl_and_the_Pussy_Cat_(Stravinsky)" title="The Owl and the Pussy Cat (Stravinsky)">The Owl and the Pussy Cat</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Choral</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Zvezdoliki" title="Zvezdoliki">Zvezdoliki</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ave_Maria_(Stravinsky)" title="Ave Maria (Stravinsky)">Ave Maria</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Babel_(Stravinsky)" title="Babel (Stravinsky)">Babel</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_(Stravinsky)" title="Mass (Stravinsky)">Mass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cantata_(Stravinsky)" title="Cantata (Stravinsky)">Cantata</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canticum_Sacrum" title="Canticum Sacrum">Canticum Sacrum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Threni_(Stravinsky)" title="Threni (Stravinsky)">Threni</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Sermon,_a_Narrative,_and_a_Prayer" class="mw-redirect" title="A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer">A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Requiem_Canticles" title="Requiem Canticles">Requiem Canticles</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Piano and<br /> pianola</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Tarantella_(Stravinsky)" title="Tarantella (Stravinsky)">Tarantella</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scherzo_(Stravinsky)" title="Scherzo (Stravinsky)">Scherzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piano_Sonata_in_F-sharp_minor_(Stravinsky)" title="Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor (Stravinsky)">Piano Sonata in F<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-sharp">♯</span></span> minor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quatre_%C3%A9tudes,_Op._7_(Stravinsky)" title="Quatre études, Op. 7 (Stravinsky)">Four Études</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Valse_des_fleurs_(Stravinsky)" title="Valse des fleurs (Stravinsky)">Valse des fleurs</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Easy_Pieces_(Stravinsky)" title="Three Easy Pieces (Stravinsky)">Three Easy Pieces</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Five_Easy_Pieces_(Stravinsky)" title="Five Easy Pieces (Stravinsky)">Five Easy Pieces</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/%C3%89tude_for_Pianola" class="mw-redirect" title="Étude for Pianola">Étude for Pianola</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Piano-Rag-Music" title="Piano-Rag-Music">Piano-Rag-Music</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Les_cinq_doigts" title="Les cinq doigts">Les cinq doigts</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Movements_from_Petrushka" class="mw-redirect" title="Three Movements from Petrushka">Three Movements from Petrushka</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piano_Sonata_(Stravinsky)" title="Piano Sonata (Stravinsky)">Piano Sonata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serenade_(Stravinsky)" title="Serenade (Stravinsky)">Serenade in A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concerto_for_Two_Pianos_(Stravinsky)" title="Concerto for Two Pianos (Stravinsky)">Concerto for Two Pianos</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tango_(Stravinsky)" title="Tango (Stravinsky)">Tango</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonata_for_Two_Pianos_(Stravinsky)" title="Sonata for Two Pianos (Stravinsky)">Sonata for Two Pianos</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Two_Sketches_for_a_Sonata" title="Two Sketches for a Sonata">Two Sketches for a Sonata</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chamber<br /> music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Three_Pieces_for_String_Quartet" title="Three Pieces for String Quartet">Three Pieces for String Quartet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three_Pieces_for_Solo_Clarinet" title="Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet">Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lied_ohne_Name" title="Lied ohne Name">Lied ohne Name</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Octet_(Stravinsky)" title="Octet (Stravinsky)">Octet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duo_Concertant" title="Duo Concertant">Duo Concertant</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/%C3%89l%C3%A9gie_(Stravinsky)" class="mw-redirect" title="Élégie (Stravinsky)">Elegy</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Septet_(Stravinsky)" title="Septet (Stravinsky)">Septet</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epitaphium_(Stravinsky)" title="Epitaphium (Stravinsky)">Epitaphium</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_Canon_(Stravinsky)" title="Double Canon (Stravinsky)">Double Canon (in Memoriam Raoul Dufy)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Symphonies_of_Wind_Instruments" title="Symphonies of Wind Instruments">Symphonies of Wind Instruments</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fanfare_for_a_New_Theatre" title="Fanfare for a New Theatre">Fanfare for a New Theatre</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Arrangements</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bluebird_Pas_de_Deux_(Stravinsky)" title="Bluebird Pas de Deux (Stravinsky)">Bluebird Pas de Deux</a></i> (from <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky" title="Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky">Tchaikovsky</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(ballet)" title="The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)">The Sleeping Beauty</a></i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monumentum_pro_Gesualdo" title="Monumentum pro Gesualdo">Monumentum pro Gesualdo</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks vcard navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Parents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Stravinsky" title="Fyodor Stravinsky">Fyodor Stravinsky</a> (father)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Wives</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yekaterina_Stravinsky" title="Yekaterina Stravinsky">Yekaterina Nosenko</a> (first)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vera_Sudeikina" class="mw-redirect" title="Vera Sudeikina">Vera Sudeikina</a> (second)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Children</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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