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Original Ballet Russe
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NameOriginal Ballet Russe
Previous namesLes Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo
Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil
Covent Garden Russian Ballet
SuccessorBallet Russe de Monte-Carlo
Year founded1931
Closed1947
FoundersRené Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil
Principal venueMonte Carlo
Senior staff
Company managerSol Hurok
Artistic staff
Artistic DirectorColonel Wassily de Basil
Resident ChoreographersLeonide Massine (1932–1937)
George Balanchine (1932–1933)
Michel Fokine (1937–c. 1941)
Other
Formation
  • Principal
  • Soloist
  • Corps de Ballet

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. The company assumed the new name Original Ballet Russe after a split between de Basil and Blum. De Basil led the renamed company, while Blum and others founded a new company under the name Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo. It was a large scale professional ballet company which toured extensively in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the United States, and Central and South America. It closed down operations in 1947.

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