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Ballets Russes

Sergei Diaghilev with his company, 1916 Chicago

The programme of the first season, Royal Opera, London. 1911

Edinburgh, 1928. Poster design by Picasso.

Set for Petrouchka by Alexandre Benois, 1913

Poster. Paris, June 1923. Première of Les Noces.

 Jean Cocteau. Poster for the 1911 Ballet Russe season showing Nijinsky in costume for Le Spectre de la Rose, Paris, 1911.

Pablo Picasso's stage design for Le Tricorne, 1919

Nijinsky in L'apres-midi d'un faune

Vera Fokin and Mikhail Fokine in Cleopatra.
choreographed by Mikhail Fokine, Berlin

Les Biches: Costume design by Marie Laurencin

Les Biches: Costume design by Marie Laurencin

Les Biches: Costume design by Marie Laurencin

Serge Lifar

Paris: Rehearsal on stage. 1910.

Scene of Narcisse. Set design by Leon Bakst, 1910.

Tamara Karsavina and Vaclav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la Rose. 1911.

Igor Stravinsky and Nijinsky (in costume for Petrouchka)

Tamara Karsavina and Mikhail Fokine in The Firebird, 1910

Sofia Fedorova
Born in Moscow 1879. Her strong point was theatrical personality rather than technique. Left Moscow 1919 for St Petersburg and in 1922 moved to Paris. Danced with Ballets Russes in its first season 1909 and until 1928. Also danced in Anna Pavlova's company 1925-26. After a nervous collapse in 1930 she lived in obscurity.

Sofia Fedorova
Born in Moscow 1879. Her strong point was theatrical personality rather than technique. Left Moscow 1919 for St Petersburg and in 1922 moved to Paris. Danced with Ballets Russes in its first season 1909 and until 1928. Also danced in Anna Pavlova's company 1925-26. After a nervous collapse in 1930 she lived in obscurity.

Sofia Fedorova
Born in Moscow 1879. Her strong point was theatrical personality rather than technique. Left Moscow 1919 for St Petersburg and in 1922 moved to Paris. Danced with Ballets Russes in its first season 1909 and until 1928. Also danced in Anna Pavlova's company 1925-26. After a nervous collapse in 1930 she lived in obscurity.

Vera Trefilova
Born in Vladikavkaz in 1875, she became prima ballerina of Mariinsky Theatre in 1906. She was a perfect classical ballerina and virtuoso. In 1917 she resigned from Mariinsky and left Russia for Paris where she joined Ballets Russes and started a ballet school.

Vera Trefilova
Born in Vladikavkaz in 1875, she became prima ballerina of Mariinsky Theatre in 1906. She was a perfect classical ballerina and virtuoso. In 1917 she resigned from Mariinsky and left Russia for Paris where she joined Ballets Russes and started a ballet school.

Vera Trefilova
Born in Vladikavkaz in 1875, she became prima ballerina of Mariinsky Theatre in 1906. She was a perfect classical ballerina and virtuoso. In 1917 she resigned from Mariinsky and left Russia for Paris where she joined Ballets Russes and started a ballet school.