Russes
- plural of Russ.
Example Sentences
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It emerged at the same time as Fauvism in painting and lasted a year longer than Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, which dazzled audiences with ravishing, often exotic visions, sets and costumes ablaze in jewel tones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
This collection’s pink and white aquarelle palette evoked the vibrant style of the Ballets Russes as envisioned by Léon Bakst and Sergei Diaghilev.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
They are such a contrast and yet both paintings are depictions of the same woman, Pablo Picasso's first wife, Olga Khokhlova, a Ukrainian ballerina who danced with the Ballets Russes.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023
Inspired by the original 1910 Ballets Russes production choreographed by Michel Fokine and based on a Russian folk tale, the Dance Theater of Harlem version transposed the story to a tropical setting.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2022
When the Ballets Russes toured Stravinsky’s second ballet, Petrushka, to Vienna in 1913, the scandalised musicians refused to play it, describing it as ‘dirty music’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
