* « Centenary of Ballets Russians of Diaghilev »-two postage stamps of Monaco, created by Georgy Shishkin ( Gueorgui Chichkine )

Also, for the Ballets Russes, he created a ballet out of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

Category: Ballets created for The Royal Ballet

She was responsible for staging a number of ballets that she had performed with the Ballets Russes, also coaching dancers for roles she had created for choreographers such as Sir Frederick Ashton.

* ( 2006 ) Luis: dance piece ; created with Verb Ballets ; based on the short story by Richard Selzer.

In 1926 Wood created designs for Romeo and Juliet for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, although they were never used.

The Theatre Museum was created as a separate institution in 1974 when the two collections held by the V & A were combined with those of the British Theatre Museum Association, which had been founded in 1957 to collect theatrical material to increase the impetus for the creation of a separate national museum, and of the Friends of the Museum of Performing Arts, another private endeavour towards the creation of a theatrical museum, which owned much Ballets Russes material.

He had several productions created expressly for her, the most notable of which was Les Ballets 1933, which included Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya and George Balanchine.

Cecchetti performed many mime roles which were created expressly for him by choreographers of the Ballets Russes.

In 1912, he collaborated with Léon Bakst on Le Dieu bleu for the Ballets Russes ; the principal dancers being Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky.

The exotic appeal of the Ballets Russes had an effect on Fauvist painters and the nascent Art Deco style.

Members of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes later went on to found ballet traditions in the United States ( George Balanchine ) and England ( Ninette de Valois and Marie Rambert ).

His images, including set designs for the Ballets Russes, would create a decorative form of Surrealism, and he would be an influence on the two artists who would be even more closely associated with Surrealism in the public mind: Dalí and Magritte.

It was reintroduced to western Europe on the eve of the First World War by a Russian company: the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, who came to be influential around the world.

In 1916 he conducted the Ballets Russes on a North American tour and from 1917 to 1919 he was the principal conductor of the French repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

The press notices concentrated on the dancers, who included Anna Pavlova as well as the regular stars of the Ballets Russes, but Monteux received some words of praise.

After just over two years on active service he was released from military duties after Diaghilev prevailed on the French government to second Monteux to conduct the Ballets Russes on a North American tour.

She illustrated Bram Stoker's last novel, The Lair of the White Worm in 1911, and Ellen Terry's book on Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, The Russian Ballet in 1913.

( Also in the audience was Sergei Diaghilev, who on the strength of this music sought out the young composer for the Ballets Russes.

During that period, Daniel Johnson was active in the Montreal community, acting as Vice-president of the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, and sat on other non-profit boards, such as the Montreal Heart Institute and the Grands Ballets Canadiens.

It was premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by his Ballets Russes on June 8, 1912.

* It was the first collaboration between Satie and Picasso, and also the first time either of them had worked on a ballet, thus making it the first time either collaborated with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.

" She responded instinctively to the expressive choreography of Mikhail Fokine, his rebellion against the stiff academicism of the classical style, and her chance came when she was chosen to join the Ballets Russes ... on their European tour in 1910 .... Diaghilev knocked a year off her age and promoted her as a child star.

The 1980s saw an increased presence on TV as NBC aired Live From Studio 8H: An Evening of Jerome Robbins ' Ballets with members of the New York City Ballet, and a retrospective of Robbins's choreography aired on PBS in a 1986 installment of Dance in America.

The ballet L ' après-midi d ' un faune ( or The Afternoon of a Faun ) was choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on May 29, 1912.

As Les Sylphides, what we consider the work was premiered by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes on 2 June 1909 at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.

However, its authorized premiere on that continent, by Diaghilev Ballets Russes, was at the Century Theater, New York City, 20 January 1916, with Lopokova ( who also featured in the unauthorized production five years earlier ).

His most notable early performance was the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, at the Ballets Russes, Paris, on 25 June 1910.

That Satie would write a " neo-classical " composition a few months after the succès de scandale of Parade, is not so surprising either: Satie was on friendly terms with Stravinsky since 1911, and after this composer had had his big succès de scandale in 1913 ( premiered with the same Ballets Russes ), he also moved towards neoclassicism-although for Stravinsky there was no distinct neoclassical composition published before Satie's sonatina.

In 1909 Sergei Diaghilev commissioned Lyadov to orchestrate a number for the Chopin-based ballet Les Sylphides, and on 4 September that year wrote to the composer asking for a new ballet score for the 1910 season of his Ballets Russes ; however, despite the much-repeated story that Lyadov was slow to start composing the work which eventually became The Firebird ( famously fulfilled by the then relatively inexperienced Igor Stravinsky ), there is no evidence that Lyadov ever accepted the commission.

This category points to information on individual Ballets Russes productions: some of the information regarding these productions is contained in:

First performed by the Ballets Russes in 1917, it succeeded in creating a scandal but in a different way than Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps had done almost five years earlier.

Opponents of that interpretation point out that he did not attend the funeral ( he generally did not attend funerals ) and immediately left Paris with Diaghilev for a performance of Les noces ( The Wedding ) by the Ballets Russes at Monte Carlo.

In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.

40 in 1911 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and was danced by Nijinski.

Prokofiev's first major success breaking out of the composer-pianist mould was with his purely orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes ; Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev – Chout, Le pas d ' acier and The Prodigal Son – which at the time of their original production were all highly successful.

Diaghilev heard Stravinsky's early orchestral works Fireworks and Scherzo fantastique, and was impressed enough to ask Stravinsky to arrange some pieces by Chopin for the Ballets Russes.

* May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris ; its modernism provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history.

* June 25 – The ballet The Firebird ( L ' Oiseau de feu ), the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.

He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird ( 1910 ), Petrushka ( 1911 ) and The Rite of Spring ( 1913 ).

In this section, with the exception of productions by the Ballets Russes ( which will be listed alphabetically by title ) and of musical settings of Pierrot lunaire ( which will be discussed under a separate heading ), all works are identified by artist ; all artists are grouped by nationality, then listed alphabetically.

In 2005 Ballet Ireland produced Diaghilev And The Red Shoes, a tribute to the ballet impresario who founded Ballets Russes, consisting of excerpts from works made famous by that seminal company.

Bakst, also Jewish, was a designer of decorative art and was famous as a draftsman designer of stage sets and costumes for the ' Ballets Russes ,' and helped Chagall by acting as a role model for Jewish success.

Category: Ballets by Jacques Offenbach

Five of the members jointly composed the music for Cocteau's ballet Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, which was produced by the Ballets suédois, the rival to the Ballet Russes.