Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo initially began because Léonide Massine, the choreographer of Colonel Wassily de Basil's Ballets Russes, desired to be more than just Colonel Wassily de Basil's right-hand man.

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, ballet company founded in Monte-Carlo in 1932. The name Ballets Russes had been used by the impresario Serge Diaghilev for his company, which revolutionized ballet in the first three decades of the 20th century.

The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil as a successor to the Ballets Russes, founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev.

After World War II began, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo left Europe and toured extensively in the United States and South America. As dancers retired and left the company, they often founded dance studios in the United States or South America or taught at other former company dancers' studios.

Founded in 1932, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo was the brainchild of Colonel Wasily de Basil (Vassily Grigorievitch Voskresensky) and Rene Blum, who assembled and directed the company in the wake of critical changes in the world of classical dance: the deaths of Serge Diaghilev and Anna Pavlova (in 1929 and 1931, respectively), who had ...

Inheritors of the Ballets Russes, the Monte-Carlo Ballet Company was established in 1985 in the Principality of Monaco thanks to the will of H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover. It has been directed since 1993 by Jean-Christophe Maillot who has created more than 30 ballets for it.

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Many of the companies took the name Ballet Russe: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, The Original Ballet Russe, Rene Blum's Ballet Russe. The companies then, as today, were always on the verge of bankruptcy.

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Ballet co. formed in 1932, and orig. called Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, in effort to continue Diaghilev's work. It was headed by Colonel Wassili de Basil and René Blum, with Fokine, Massine, and Balanchine as choreogs.

Choroegraphy: Millicent Hodson after Vaslav Nijinski Sets and costumes: Kenneth Archer after Nicolas Roerich Premiere by Les Ballets Russes, in Paris 29 on May 1913 at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Premiere by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo on …