Ballets Russes

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Beginning in Paris in 1909, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company set milestones both in the development of choreography and the development of dance technique. Diaghilev’s vision was of ‘total’ works of art in which all the elements – dance, music, visual arts, literature/philosophy and décor – were given equal status; in which collaboration between artists and their disciplines became both the ideal and the model. Choreographers and dancers who worked for the Ballets Russes included Massine, Michel Fokine, George Balanchine, Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky.

Diaghilev commissioned composers of the calibre of Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Sergey Prokofiev, while artists such as Picasso, Leon Bakst, and Henri Matisse created stage designs for him.

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    Nijinskaia, Kobélew and Schollar in Pétroushka.
    (1912)
    Photograph of Nijinskaia, Kobélew and Schollar in Pétroushka. Photograph by Cliché Bert, Paris.
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    Ludmila Schollar
    (1912)
    Photograph of Ludmila Schollar in the role of Bohémienne in the ballet Pétrouchka. The photographer was Cliché Bert of Paris.
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    Illustrations of some of Leon Bakst's designs for the Ballets Russes.
    (1913) Bakst, Leon
    Leon Bakst was an extraordinary costume and scene designer who was closely associated with artists like Sergei Diaghilev and Alexandre Benois. He produced many designs for the Ballets Russes, some of which we present here.
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    Vaslav Nijinsky
    (London: C. W. Beaumont and Co., 1913)
    Two plates from Robert Monetenegro's work, "Vaslav Nijinsky; an artistic interpretation of his work in black, white and gold".
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    Russian Opera and Ballet Souvenir-Programme (Cover)
    (1914)
    Cover of the illustrated souvenir-programme of the Russian Opera and Ballet, Season 1914, Royal Theatre, Drury Lane. Features the costume designs of Leon Bakst. Coloured sketch by Valentine Gross.
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    Illustrations from "Scheherazade"
    (London : C. W. Beaumont, 1919)
    Selected images decorated by A.P. Allinson from the ballet Scheherazade
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    Illustrations from "Thamar"
    (London : C. W. Beaumont, 1919)
    Illustrations by Ethelbert White from the ballet Thamar.
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    The Sleeping Beauty
    (1921)
    Ballet in five scenes after Perrault's tale The Sleeping Beauty (La Belle Au Bois Dormant)
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    Stanislas Idzikowski as Petrouchka
    (London : C.W. Beaumont, 1926)
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    Williamson magazine program 1936
    (1936)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".
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    Cast list, 20 October 1936 Evening
    (1936-10-20)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".
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    Cast list, 21 October 1936 Evening
    (1936-10-21)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".
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    Cast list, 22 October Evening
    (1936-10-22)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".
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    Cast list, 24 October 1936 Evening
    (1936-10-24)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".
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    Cast list, 24 October 1936 Matinee
    (1936-10-24)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".
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    Cast list, 27 October 1936 Evening
    (1936-10-27)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".
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    Cast list, 28 October 1936 Evening
    (1936-10-28)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".
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    Monte Carlo Souvenir Programme 1937
    (1937)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".
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    Cast list, 7 & 8 July 1937 Evening
    (1937-07-07)
    A series of programmes for the individual performances of Colonel W. De Basil's "Monte Carlo Russian Ballet", performed in Adelaide at the Theatre Royal in 1936 and 1937. Includes performances of "Thamar", "Les Sylphides", "Carnaval", "Les Presages", "Le Lac des cygnes" and "Le cent baisers".