Col. Basil's Ballets Russes De Monte-Carlo: 5th American Season 1937-1938

Published by Nicolas Publishing Co., 1937

Used Soft cover

From The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A. Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars

AbeBooks Seller since January 7, 2008

This specific copy is no longer available. Here are our closest matches for Col. Basil's Ballets Russes De Monte-Carlo: 5th American Season 1937-1938.

View this seller's items Create a Want for similar items

View all copies of this book

About this Item

Nicolas Publishing Co. 1937 Cover artwork by Christian Berard 12 1/4" x 9 1/2" The Original Ballet RUSSE (originally named BALLET RUSSE de MONTE CARLO) was a ballet company established in 1932 by Rene Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil. The company assumed the new name Original Ballet Russe after a split between de Basil and Blum. Col. W. de Basil led the renamed company, while Blum along with others founded a new company under the original name, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The company's name is derived from the Ballets Russes of impresario Sergei Diaghilev. The last season of Diaghilev's Ballet Russe was in 1929, during which it toured and performed in both London and Paris. The company performed for the final time in London at the Covent Garden Theater on July 26th, 1929. Diaghliev died only a month later, on August 19th, 1929 of diabetes. In 1932, with the help of financier Serge Denham, Rene Blum and Colonel Vassili de Basil formed the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The idea behind the company was to create a world-renowned ballet company that would continue the work and legacy of the late Serge Diaghilev. The company hired George Balanchine and Leonide Massine to act as choreographers. The majority of the works that were performed were ones from Diaghilev's company, but they also performed ballets from Balanchine and Massine. Balanchine was let go after only one year because the company found that audiences preferred to watch Diaghilev's and Massine's ballets. (And due to disagreements with de Basil, Massine left the company as soon as his contract was up and joined Blum.) Together Blum and Massine formed their own company, and attracted several of Col. de Basil's dancers. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo wasn't doing very well financially and almost declared bankruptcy when Sol Hurok, an American producer, took over the management of the company in 1934. Seller Inventory # 29114

Report this item

Bibliographic Details

Title: Col. Basil's Ballets Russes De Monte-Carlo: ...
Publisher: Nicolas Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 1937
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Original Program - "S. Hurok presents Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes (de Monte-Carlo); 1937-1938, October-April, 5th American Season"

S. Hurok, W. de Basil, et al.

Used Soft cover

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's multicolored paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration on front cover shows two stylized figures, a male dancer lifting a female dancer in a graceful pose. No date, circa 1937. 9 1/2" x 12." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color (most in black-and-white; several color illustrations in center), complete. Many advertisements for various products and businesses included. Pages are very clean and intact except for glue residue on the Prince Matchabelli ad (this may have been the adhesive for a now-missing illustration, but it may also simply be a stain), occasional colored pencil inscriptions limited to margins, creases on a few of the portrait illustrations, and light age toning. Covers are very clean and intact except for several small wrinkles and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is an original program for Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (not to be confused with Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo) for Season 1937-1938 (5th American Season). The following are some of the contents: introductory statements for the current season; synopses of at least some of the company's ballets; brief biographical information about some of the company's staff and dancers; announcement for "Argentinita and her Spanish ballet"; and black-and-white photographic portrait illustrations of W. de Basil, S. Hurok, Michel Fokine, Leonide Massine, David Lichine, Lubov Tchernicheva, Alexandra Danilova, Irina Baronova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Paul Petroff, Yurek Shabelevsky, Roman Jasinsky, Tamara Grigorieva, Eugenie Delarova, and Olga Morosova. Some of the advertised products or businesses in this program: Flexees, Caron, Lanvin, Helena Rubinstein, Bellows & Company, Prince Matchabelli, French State Railways, and Pinaud. Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo and the similarly named Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo were the successors to Serghei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo was formed in 1931 by Wassily de Basil (commonly referred to as Colonel W. de Basil) and Rene Blum. Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo was renamed Original Ballet Russe after de Basil and Blum parted ways (Blum's company became the aforementioned Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo). Original Ballet Russe remained active until 1947. Notably, impresario Sol Hurok came to manage both de Basil's Original Ballet Russe and Blum's Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo. Seller Inventory # 026735

Contact seller