Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Archives » Voices of British Ballet

companies » Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

Timeline Event » 1933 – First London season by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the Alhambra Theatre

With the death of Serge Diaghilev in 1929 the powerhouse of the Ballets Russes company he had created died with him. Creative life and the young never stand still for long, and from both necessity...

Timeline Event » 1938 – London ballet wars London ballet wars between the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Original Ballet Russe

The ‘London Ballets wars’, as it was called, occurred during simultaneous seasons by two rival visiting ballet companies in the British capital. Starting in the summer, the Russian Ballet...

Timeline Event » 1942 – Allied Ballet established

Jashf Crandall made his performing debut in the United States of America with Mikhail Mordkin’s Russian Ballet in 1926. Crandall had also danced with Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Adolph Bolm and...