dance

By Edasia

  • Ballet Russe Begins

    Ballet Russe was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev.Its' original members were from the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg, Russia where all its dancers were associated and trained.The company consisted of 13 members, all attaining a very high standard of dance.

  • Paris

    Diaghilev returns to Paris for a second season, when Stravinsky’s first ballet, The Firebird, is presented.
    Diaghilev also presents ballet in Berlin and Brussels.

  • Nijinsky Becomes Permanent

    Nijinsky dismissed from the Imperial Ballet. The Ballet Russes becomes a permanent company, giving its first performances at Monte Carlo, Rome and the Coronation Season in London.

  • Michael Fokine leaves

    Fokine leaves the Ballets Russes.

  • world war 1

    Diaghilev’s last season in Paris and London of Russian opera and ballet before the war.

  • Leonide joins

    Leonide Massine joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. April 16th was the premiere of the one-act ballet, Papillons choreographed by Fokine. It was also the premiere of another of Fokine’s one-act ballet, La Légende de Joseph. A month later, May 24th was Fokine’s opera premiere Le Coq d'Or.

  • Geneva and Paris

    company reforms in Switzerland; only two performances, one each in Geneva and Paris.

  • Massine Becomes The Company's Choreographer

    Massine emerges as the company’s choreographer.
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    Ballets Russes Comes To America

    This was the only tour that Diaghilev's Ballets Russes ever danced as a company in the United States. Their first performance was in New York. They opened on January 17, 1916 with The Firebird, La Princesse Enchantée, Le Soleil de Nuit and Schéhérezade. After these performance they toured sixteen towns, dancing in a different place each evening.

  • Second Tour

    Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes set sail back to America for the second tour. Diaghilev and Grigoriev remained in Rome.

  • Ballet Russe WW1

    Only Ballets Russes season in Paris during the war includes creation of Parade.

  • South America

    Last tour to South America.

  • ballet russe in Britain

    The Ballets Russes give 375 performances in Britain, including the premieres of La Boutique fantasque and Le Tricorne, and three in Paris.

  • Massine leaves

    Massine leaves the Ballet Russes.

  • Bankrupt

    Diaghilev bankrupted and company suspended.

  • The end of Ballet Russe

    last performance by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at Casino Theatre, Vichy.

  • Diaghilev dies

    Diaghilev dies in Venice.