Ballets Russes

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ballet company performing arts company

Ballets Russes was an influential early 20th-century Russian ballet company based in Paris that revolutionized modern ballet through innovative choreography, music, and design collaborations.

Aliases (5)

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ballet company → performing arts company →
activeYearsEnd	1929 →
activeYearsStart	1909 →
alsoKnownAs	Les Ballets Russes →
artisticDirector	Sergei Diaghilev →
basedIn	Paris →
collaboratedWith	Alexandre Benois → Bronislava Nijinska → Claude Debussy → Coco Chanel → George Balanchine → Giorgio de Chirico → Henri Matisse → Igor Stravinsky → Léon Bakst → Léonide Massine → Maurice Ravel → Michel Fokine → Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov → Pablo Picasso → Sergei Prokofiev → Vaslav Nijinsky →
countryOfOrigin	Russian Empire →
culturalImpact	redefined ballet as a modern art form →
dissolved	1929 →
employed	Anna Pavlova → Serge Lifar → Tamara Karsavina → Vaslav Nijinsky →
era	early 20th century →
foundedAs	touring company from the Imperial Russian Ballet →
foundedBy	Sergei Diaghilev →
genre	ballet →
headquartersLocation	Paris →
inception	1909 →
influenced	20th-century dance → modern ballet →
languageOfName	French →
legacy	inspired later companies such as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo →
location	Paris →
movement	modern ballet →
notableFor	innovative choreography → innovative music collaborations → innovative stage and costume design →
patronage	supported by European high society →
performedIn	London → Monte Carlo → Paris → various European cities →
premiered	Afternoon of a Faun → Daphnis et Chloé → Parade → Petrushka → Scheherazade → The Firebird → The Rite of Spring →
style	synthesis of music, dance, and visual arts →
translatedName	Russian Ballets →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alexandra Danilova → Igor Stravinsky → Lydia Lopokova → Olga Khokhlova ("Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes") →	employer
Alexandra Danilova → Lydia Lopokova → Olga Khokhlova →	memberOf
George Balanchine → Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze →	workedFor
Ballets Russes ("Les Ballets Russes") →	alsoKnownAs
Imperial Russian Ballet →	influenced
Olga Khokhlova →	movement
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ("Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes") →	notablePerformer
Lydia Lopokova ("Ballets Russes productions") →	performerIn
Ballets Russes ("Russian Ballets") →	translatedName