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Russian Imperial School of Ballet
Russian Imperial School of Ballet had many different masters that came to teach at the school like Charles Didelot, Jules Perrot, Arthur Saint-Leon, Marius Petipa and etc. -
Marius Petipa
He was considered to be the " father of classical ballet". He was at first a dancer than he was the Ballet Master of The Imperial Theater in 1870 and some famous work of his is The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty. -
Giselle
Giselle was performed in 1860. It was choreographed by Jean Coralli, Giselle was played by a dancer named Carlotta Grisi. The original choreography was lost but the one we see more often was made and based on the one produced in 1860. Giselle was apart of the Romantic ballet time period. -
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Michel Fokine
He trained and performed in Russia then later he joined the Ballet Russe as a dancer and choreographer. Some of his famous works are Les Sylphides, Petrouchka, and Firbird. -
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Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav joined as a dancer and then later was a choreographer. Some of the dances he choreographed was shocking to the audiences and cutting edge ballets. Since there were not a lot of male dancers, he raised the bar for male dancers. Some of his choreographic contributions were Le Apres-mid-d un faune, and Le Sacre du Printemps. -
Serge Diaghilev's dancers
Serge Diaghilev's dancers brought his company to Paris and selected some Russian dancers from the Russian Imperial Theaters to introduce his new choreography in his company's premier Paris performance. -
Diaghilev dies
After Diaghilev died, his company was over and most of his dancers were left with no job because no one was there to continue his company. -
Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo
Wasily de Brasil and Rene Blum start a new company and lots of dancers went there after Diaghilev's death and George Balanchine, that was a choreographer for Diaghilev, was named the Dance Master and principle choreographer. -
Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo first performance
Critics were talking about their show and said that the "Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was the authentic air to Diaghilev's Ballet Russe". Lots of Diaghilev's choreographers went to work with Basil and Blum since they were out of a job. -
Basil and Blum's company
After their first season of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performing shows, Basil and Blum got tired of Balanchine and didn't want him to know that he was fired so they secretly replaced him with Leonide Massine. Massine was the first choreographer to introduce symphonic orchestra to ballet. -
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Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo travels to America
Sol Hurok was their manager and booked their first America tour. Diaghilev's company hadn't traveled to America in 20 years and Basil and Blum changed that. When they got to America, they performed for 3 million people. Later,Basil and Blum were not working so well together and Blum left the company. Basil and Massine fought over who should have the company name and Massine won to kept the name Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo and Basil changed hiss company name to The Original Ballet Russe. -
Massine's big problem
Massine lost rights to his choreography and his hands were tied unless he found a way to change that because if he didn't he would be out of a job and business and also his dancers would be out of a job too. He had to make 3 new and improved ballets that the audience would love so that he could make money by having a big audience come to his shows. -
World War II was declared
Most Russians didn't have all the right papers to leave the country. They luckily got on a boat to America and both companies were able to get on the boat. Since they had traveled to America they had no rehearsals because they had nowhere to practice, but Massine's company had a show that night when they got to America. -
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Hurok and Basil conflict
Basils company started having difficulties finding work after 2 years. Hurok was done with Basil and said he was "one of the most difficult people to work with". Basically Basil's company had no work and he was not able to return to London, so he had to do something because if he didn't his company would be over so he took his company on a Latin America tour. Hurok came back but that was a bad idea so he left again and so did dancers. His last performance was November 1948. -
Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo was successful
The ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was doing good. They got to experience the Hollywood glamour and Massine was bringing in a lot of money and lost attention to the choreographic touch, so Massine hired a American choreography named Agnes de Mille. Agnes de Mile choreographed "Rodeo" a old American tradition.
