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Dictionary definition: Ballet Russe
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Ballet Russe.
There is much confusion regarding the use of the names Ballet Russe and Les Ballets Russes. The first so-called Russian Ballet was Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1909–29) but following his death various directors and impresarios, eager to capitalize on the Diaghilev phenomenon, used the term freely. The two most important successors to the Diaghilev company were the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (1938–62), which was in ...