Talk:Ballets Russes

Apollo

I've just removed Apollo from the list of works the Ballets Russes premiered, but I know there are a few sources that say they did, so I thought I'd better exaplin myself. It was written on a commission by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and premiered in the US with choreography by Adolph Bolm, who I believe had been a member of the Ballets Russes at one point, but wasn't any longer. The other dancers, as far as I can make out, were American. It was only given in Paris by the Ballets Russes a couple of months later. The University of Surrey has a great new database for checking this sort of stuff, incidentally. (I'm assuming Apollo is Apollon musagète, by the way, and not some other work I don't know about - if it is, please put it back, and apologies) --Camembert

Here is the list of Ballets Russe productions given in the French article, its nice because it has the composer etc, but it is slightly incompatible with the list given here and I haven't found an article allowing me to reconcil the two.Notjim 09:42, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Principal productions

Year	Title	Composer	Choreographer	Set and costume
1910	L'uccello di fuoco	Igor Stravinsky	Mikhail Fokine	Golovine, Léon Bakst
1911	Le Spectre de la rose
1911	Petrushka	Igor Stravinsky	Mikhail Fokine	Benois
1912	L'après-midi d'un faune	Claude Debussy	Mikhail Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky	Léon Bakst, Redon
1912	Daphnis et Chloé	Maurice Ravel	Mikhail Fokine	Léon Bakst
1913	Jeux	Claude Debussy	Vaslav Nijinsky	Léon Bakst
1913	La sagra della primavera	Igor Stravinsky	Vaslav Nijinsky	Roerich
1913	Tragédie de Salomè	Schmitt	Romanov
1914	Josephs-Legende	Richard Strauss
1917	Parade	Erik Satie	Léonide Massine	Pablo Picasso
1919	La boutique fantastique	Gioachino Rossini, Ottorino Respighi	Léonide Massine	André Derain
1919	Il tricorno	Manuel de Falla	Léonide Massine	Pablo Picasso
1920	Le chant du rossignol	Igor Stravinsky	Léonide Massine	Henri Matisse
1920	Pulcinella	Igor Stravinsky	Léonide Massine	Pablo Picasso
1921	Chout	Sergei Prokofiev	Larionov	Larionov
1922	Renard	Igor Stravinsky	Bronislava Nijinska	Larionov
1923	Les Noces	Igor Stravinsky	Bronislava Nijinska	Gon*c*arova
1924	Les Biches	Francis Poulenc	Bronislava Nijinska	Marie Laurencin
1924	Les Fâcheux	Georges Auric	Bronislava Nijinska	Georges Braque
1924	Le train bleu	Milhaud	Bronislava Nijinska	Laurens (scene), Coco Chanel (costumi), Pablo Picasso (fondali)
1925	Les matelots	Georges Auric	Léonide Massine	Pruna
1926	Jack in the box	Erik Satie	George Balanchine	André Derain
1927	La chatte	Sauguet	George Balanchine	Garbo, Pevsner
1927	Mercure	Erik Satie	Léonide Massine	Pablo Picasso
1927	Pas d'acier	Sergei Prokofiev	Léonide Massine	Jaculov
1928	Apollon musagète	Igor Stravinsky	George Balanchine	Bauschant (scene), Coco Chanel (costumi)
1929	Le fils prodigue	Sergei Prokofiev	George Balanchine	Rouault

Conductors

Came here looking for conductors associates with the Ballets Russes... which would be a suggestion for possible inclusion. Jim 17:19, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation

I was wondering if there was anyone who could provide a phoenetic pronunciation guide. I don't know how to pronounce it perfectly. Anyone? Caleb- 9:03, Sept. 27, 2006.

Ballets Russes in Australia - not this company

Text removed referring to other ballet companies Paul foord (talk) 09:44, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Ballets Russes performs in Australia

Ballets Russes companies performed in Australia between 1936 and 1940. Max Dupain, Australian photographer, took photographs of the principal dancers during this period. (See external link below)

External links

• Ballets Russes Australian tours (1936 - 1940) / AustraliaDancing
• The Ballets Russes in Australasia, 1936-1940 / National Library of Australia performing arts collection
• Ballets Russes project / National Library of Australia
• The Ballets Russes in Australasia, 1936-1940 - a list of holdings from the National Library of Australia (including links to digitised collection items)
• Max Dupain's Dancers 1938-1946 Collection, National Library of Australia

Ballets Russes and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

I'd like to come up with a sub-category (similar to Ballet companies in Canada, in the US, etc.) for Ballets Russes and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo -- and perhaps any other "legacy" companies as the computer people would call them -- but genuinely cannot come up with a name that sounds right for ballet. Ideas? Robert Greer (talk) 22:34, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Members of Company

In this article there is no mention of Alexandra Danilova while in her article there is mention how she and George Balanchine left Soviet and joined this Company. Does anyone know which statement is correct? Lindus (talk) 14:29, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Russes or russes?

Ballets suédois is not Ballets Suédois. Why is Ballets Russes not Ballets russes? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 19:27, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

This is a question of different capitalisation rules. The French rules for title and organisation name capitalisation are quite involved, but generally only one main word or a real proper name (la Marche turque), are capitalised (see fr:Capitale et majuscule). In English all non-trivial words are capitalised. Thus fr:Ballets russes for the French Wikipedia. How the title is rendered in English depends (I would think) on whether the French name is so familiar that it is also the English name, or whether it is regarded as an unfamiliar foreign name which should retain its own capitalisation (I did not find any guidance about capitalising foreign phrases except for Latin after a quick look in WP:MOSCAPS but the example there of knackbrot seems wrong to me, it should be Knackbrot). Ballet Russes is familiar enough to be regarded as the English proper name (look at common usage elsewhere for example) so I think Ballets Russes is correct for the English Wikipedia, whereas Ballets suédois is (still) a foreign name so that is also correct. – Mirokado (talk) 20:18, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I can see some sense in that rationale. It's just that it looked odd when these 2 companies were juxtaposed in Roger Désormière. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:23, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Flow diagram in this article

I am not clear what the sources are for File:Diaghilev1.jpg (Diaghilev's influence on Western ballet) or whether it has been created without references? Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 13:12, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

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