Diaghilev's Ballets Russes | PICRYL collections

Photograph of Vaslav Nijinsky in Pavillon d'Armide, 1909, no photograp...

Photograph of Schéhérazade, with costume designs by Léon Bakst, 1910, ...

Photograph of Michel Fokine as Prince Ivan and Tamara Karsavina as the...

R. Edmunds -- Serge Diaghileff -- John Brown

Photograph shows (right to left) John Brown, business comptroller of the Metropolitan Opera, Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russes and Ralph Edmunds who was connected with the Metropolitan Opera Company. (Source... more

Photograph of Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la Rose, 1911

Photograph of Nijinsky in Narcisse, 1911

Photograph of Nijinsky in the title role of the ballet Petrouchka, 191...

John Brown & S. de Diaghileff

Photograph shows John Brown, business comptroller of the Metropolitan Opera and Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russes aboard the French liner Lafayette which arrived in New York on January 11, 1911. (Source: Fli... more

Photograph of Vaslav Nijinsky and Romola de Pulszky on their wedding d...

Photograph of Vaslav Nijinsky applying makeup to an artist before a pe...

Léon Bakst's color design for a Courtier in The Sleeping Princess, 192...

Natalia Goncharova's color design for the Siamese Butterfly in Aurora'...

Photograph of Bronislava Nijinska as the Humming Bird Princess in The ...

Poster of Ballets Russes, June 1922

Photo card of Francis Poulenc, 1923

He writes "to the admirable Nijinska who made our "Bicher" so beautiful with my profound affection - Francis Poulenc -1923" (General)

Photograph of Felia Doubrovska (center) as The Bride in a rehearsal of...

Photograph of Le Train Blue (photo 1), 1924

Photograph of Anatole Vilzak and Vera Nimchinova in Les Biches, 1924, ...

Photograph of Le Train Blue (photo 2), 1924

Marie Laurencin's color curtain design for Les Biches, 1924

Photograph of Le Train Bleu, 1924, no photographer

Photograph of Jean Cocteau and Serge Diaghilev on the opening night of...

Photograph of Vera Nemchinova as the Girl in Blue and cast, Les Biches...

Photograph of Tamara Karsavina and Serge Lifar in Romeo and Juliet, Lo...

Music by Lambert, choreography by Nijinska (General)

Photograph of Tamara Karsavina and Serge Lifar in Romeo and Juliet, Lo...

Photograph of Lydia Sokolova, Leon Woizikovsky, Nicholas Zverev in Les...

Photograph of Alexandra Danilova and Serge Lifar in The Triumph of Nep...

Paul Petrov of the Ballet Russe, backstage at the JC Williamson New Ye...

Format: Negative..From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au ( http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au ) ..Information about photographic collections of the State Library ... more

Colonel de Basil ballet dancers Elizabeth Souvorova (Betty Scorer), Al...

' ... When that troupe sailed to New Zealand from Australia in March 1937 “a new member of the company went with them”, reported the Adelaide newspaper, The Mail. ..“He is, without a doubt, the most popular mem... more

Artist Daryl Lindsay with Ballets russes dancers Betty Souvorova and A...

During the first of the three famous Ballets russes tours of Australia, Arthur Wigram Allen and his daughter Margaret hosted picnic parties for the company at their waterfront holiday home Moombara on the Port ... more

Russian Ballet rehearsal at Theatre Royal (taken for J.C. Williamson L...

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De Basil Covent Garden Russian Ballet Company on the SS Maloja during ...

Dancers include Irina Bondireva and Irina Vassilieva..Format: Silver gelatin photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=421962 ( http:/... more

Tatiana Riabouchinska darning the ballet shoes, Sydney, between 1938-1...

Riabouchinska, one of the leading ballerinas of the 1930's, darns a ballet slipper, probably in Rushcutters Bay Park, on a warm Sydney day. She was one of the famous three "Baby Ballerinas"..Format: Photograph.... more

Colonel de Basil's "Original Ballet Russe" (Russian Ballet) season, Th...

Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=395095 ( http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=395095 ) ..Search for m... more

Helene Kirsova, ballerina, ca. 1941 / photographer Bitter-Jeppesen Stu...

Notes: Danish ballerina Helene Kirsova first came to Australia with the famous Ballet Russe in 1936. They played in capital cities for months and Australians were enthralled with modern classical ballet. On her... more

Photograph of Serge Lifar and Bronislava Nijinska at the grave of Serg...

Photograph of Tamara Karsavina in Schéhérazade, n.d., no photographer

Photograph of Serge Diaghilev and Léonide Massine, n.d.

Photograph of Bronislava Nijinska as the Street Dancer in Petrouchka, ...

Photograph of Bronislava Nijinska, Olga Khohlova, and Lubov Tcherniche...

Juan Gris's color design for a Shepherdess in Les Tentations de la Ber...

Photograph of Alexander Orlov and Vaslav Nijinsky in scene III of Petr...

Photograph of L to R: Serge Diaghilev, Bronislava Nijinska, Igor Stra...

Photograph of Alexandra Danilova and Serge Lifar in Apollon Musagete, ...

Photograph of Romeo and Juliet, n.d., no photographer

Photograph of Diahilev, Nijinsky, Stravinsky, n.d.

Photograph of Serge Diaghilev, n.d.

Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection, 1750-1950

Photograph of Adolph Bolm and Tamara Karsavina in Schéhérazade, n.d.

Photograph of Serge Diaghilev, n.d.

Photograph of Nijinsky children, Vaslav, Bronislava, Stanislav

Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)