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Article: A LOVING, EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF THE MANY BALLETS RUSSES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 7, 1990
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Now pay attention. There once was a dance company that introduced
the wonders of Russian ballet -- Nijinsky, Karsavina, "Les
Sylphides," "Scheherazade" -- to an adoring Western public. Called
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, it died when Diaghilev did, in 1929.
After that, there were lots of Ballets Russes -- or Ballet Russe,
in the singular style that some favored -- and even a company
weighted with the title The Educational Ballet Limited's Covent
Garden Russian Ballet.
There were two principal inheritors of the magic name, though.
One company was begun by Col. Wassily de Basil, an erstwhile
Russian army officer, and Rene Blum, a French impresario; the other
was run chiefly by Sergei ...