Who founded the Ballet Russe?
Original Ballet Russe the world. Some film was in colour, a rarity for that time. Original Ballet Russe The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Les Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 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". It was a large scale professional ballet company
Original Ballet Russe Monte-Carlo" name. The jury decided that de Basil owned Massine's ballets created between 1932 and 1937, but not those created before 1932. It also ruled that both successor companies could use the name "Ballet Russe" — but only Massine and Blum's company could be called "Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo". Col. de Basil renamed his company again, calling it the "Covent Garden Russian Ballet" and bringing on Michel Fokine as resident choreographer. Sol Hurok ended up managing Blum and Massine's company as well. The Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo and the Original Ballet Russe often performed near each other. Under its new