The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1932 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.
Read more about Original Ballet Russe: The End of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Massine and Balanchine Join Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo, The Company Splits, Two Ballets Russe, During World War II, Works, Disbandment
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