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.

" The later years of the Ballets Russes were often considered too " intellectual ", too " stylish " and seldom had the unconditional success of the first few seasons, although younger choreographers like George Balanchine hit their stride with the Ballet Russes.

The Paris seasons of the Ballets Russes were an artistic and social sensation ; setting trends in art, dance, music and fashion for the next decade.

The 1920s were prosperous years and the Liceu became fully established as a leading opera house welcoming better singers, the orchestra leaders of the time and companies such as Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

In the same year, the famous Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin and Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with conductor Ernest Ansermet were guest performers.

Among his works for the Ballets Russes were The Firebird, Petrushka, Le Spectre de la Rose and Daphnis et Chloé.

These " Pink Ballets " were supposedly sex parties, mostly with young underaged girls and boys, which several eminent members of the Belgian high society were said to have participated in, including noblemen, high civil servants, politicians, ministers, business leaders and policemen.

The killings of Jacques van Camp, Léon Finné and Constantin Angelou were also brought into connection with the Pink Ballets.

The category concentrates on the innovating productions of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, as they were performed in Western Europe ( Paris, and later several places in Europe and the Americas ), from 1909 to 1929.

This category involves as well ballet music that was originally commissioned for the Ballets Russes performances, as stagings of the ballet company that were realised on previously existing ( ballet ) music ( like Les Sylphides, L ' après-midi d ' un faune or Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ).

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.

The ballet La création du monde was commissioned by the ballet company Ballets suédois, which were the Swedish contemporaries to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

They were soon picked up by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes ; Danilova as a dancer, Balanchine as a choreographer.

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

When Ravel used a 5 / 4 time in the final part of his ballet Daphnis and Chloe ( 1912 ), dancers of the Ballets Russes sang Ser-ge-dia-ghi-lev during rehearsals to keep the correct rhythm.

Tailleferre wrote many of her most important works during the 1920s, including her 1st Piano Concerto, the Harp Concertino, the ballets Le marchand d ' oiseaux ( the most frequently performed ballet in the repertoire of the Ballets suédois during the 1920s ) and La nouvelle Cythère which was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for the ill-fated 1929 season of the famous Ballets Russes, and Sous les ramparts d ' Athènes in collaboration with Paul Claudel, as well as several pioneering film scores, including B ' anda, in which she used African themes.

The score was also used later by Maurice Béjart's 20th Century Ballets.

For the other style, known as ballet style as it is used in the National Ballets, one player has command of the three dununs standing on the floor, allowing a more complex arrangement for the dance.

After the early 20th century, primarily after the disbandment of the original Ballets Russes, the title has been used more to describe the master teachers / assistant directors of a ballet company, ( previously known as Second Ballet master ), with the head of a company being referred to as the Artistic Director.

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.

This led to an invitation to return the following year with ballet as well as opera, and thus to the launching of his famous Ballets Russes.

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

Diaghilev dismissed Nijinsky summarily from the Ballets Russes after the dancer's marriage in 1913.

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.

Lambert was a prodigy, writing orchestral works from the age of 13, and at 20 received a commission to write a ballet for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes ( Romeo and Juliet ).

In 1909, still in Paris, he launched the Ballets Russes, initially with Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

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.

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.

Lincoln Kirstein, a young American arts patron recently graduated from Harvard University, saw Les Ballets 1933.

* In 1998, Mamoudou Conde, director of the ballets Les Percussions de Guinée, Les Ballets Africains, and Ballet Djoliba, began to explore the idea of including women djembe and dunun players in ballet performances, against considerable initial resistance from male performers.

He joined Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1921, was a principal there from 1924, and was a principal with the Vic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s.

Since it creation, Les Grands Ballets has performed a broad range of dance, ranging from classics to major contemporary work.

This reconstructed version is often presented with Nijinsky's other works or repertoire from the Ballets Russes.

In 1909, still in Paris, he launched the Ballets Russes, initially with Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

The ballet was revived in 1934 by Colonel Wassily de Basil's company, the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, in a production staged in London, using the original decor and costumes from Diaghilev's company.

Apart from regular seasons offered by The National Ballet of Canada at the Sony Centre from 1964 to 2006 and frequent visits by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the theatre has welcomed a diverse range of international dance companies.

Since then it has been the main venue of the Athens Festival, which runs from May through October each year, featuring a variety of acclaimed Greek as well as International performances ; The Odeon has hosted Maria Callas, Maurice Béjart, the Bolshoi Ballets, Karolos Koun, Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Nikos Koundouros, Spiros Evangelatos, Giannis Markopoulos, George Dalaras, Haris Alexiou, Marinella, Dionysis Savopoulos and many other important artists and artistic organizations.

Choreographer of the Ballets Russes in Paris from 1909-1923.

( Les Ballets Africains, a dance and music group from Guinea, had first performed in the U. S. in 1959, and featured a kora player.

* 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.

In the middle of the tour Monteux was briefly summoned back to Paris by the Concerts Colonne, which had the contractual right to recall him as its assistant conductor, leaving his deputy, Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, in musical charge of the Ballets Russes.

Blum and de Basil did not agree artistically, leading to a split, after which de Basil renamed his company initially Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil ; in 1938 he renamed his company again, as the Covent Garden Russian Ballet ; finally, in 1939, he gave the company its final title, the Original Ballet Russe.

Each season, Les Grands Ballets invites prestigious international companies to perform as part of its program.

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 Ballets Russes-inspired dining room at Port Lympne with its lapis walls, opalescent ceiling, gilt-winged chairs with jade-green cushions, all surmounted by a frieze of scantily-clad Africans, suggests the outsider confidence of a Rothschild and of an openly gay man.

In Canada, she took classes with the Ballets Russes and appeared in three of its productions.

He also choreographed a ballet to Hector Berlioz's 1830 Symphonie Fantastique and danced the role of the Young Musician with Tamara Toumanova as the Beloved at its premiere at Covent Garden, London, on 24 July 1936 with Colonel W. de Basil's Ballets Russes.

It was here that Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake received its English première by the Ballets Russes in 1910.

It hosted the Ballets Russes for its first season, staging the world première of the Rite of Spring on Thursday May 29, 1913, thus becoming the celebrated location of one of the most famous of all classical music riots.

The Houston Ballet has its origins in the Houston Ballet Academy, which was established in 1955 under the leadership of Tatiana Semenova, a former dancer with 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 provoking one of the most famous classical music riots in history.