Original Ballets Russes

...However, there were many problems with the management, and soon after the company was founded, one of its founders, Blum, left, and from 1938 Massine became its director. Colonel de Basile also left to found the Original Ballets Russes, but the two companies had common programs and frequent exchanges of dancers. Both ballet companies reached their peak in the mid-1940s, but they continued and developed the line of modernizing ballet promoted by Diaghilev, and made a great contribution by visiting regional cities in North America, Latin America, Australia, and other places where ballet was not very familiar, and working to introduce it to them. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Original Ballets Russes" is listed below.

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…しかし運営面では問題が多く，発足後まもなく創立者の一人ブルムが去り，38年からはマシンが主宰者となる。ド･バジール大佐も分かれて〈オリジナル･バレエ･リュッス〉を創立するが，両者は共通の演目をもち，踊り手の交流も頻繁であった。バレエ団の最盛期はともに40年代の半ばまでであったが，ディアギレフの推進したバレエの近代化の路線を継承発展させ，バレエになじみの薄かった北アメリカの地方都市，ラテン･アメリカ，オーストラリアなどを訪れてその紹介に努めた功績は大きい。…

※「オリジナル・バレエ・リュッス」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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