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- Wassily_de_Basil abstract "Wassily de Basil (16 September 1888 – 27 July 1951), usually referred to as Colonel W. de Basil, was a Russian ballet impresario.De Basil was born Vassily Grigorievich Voskresensky in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1888 (his year of birth is given variously as 1880 or 1886.) He is said to have been a colonel in the Cossack army, although his claim to the title \"Colonel\" is disputed. De Basil was demobilised from the army in 1919 and worked as an entrepreneur in Paris.Following the death of Sergei Diaghilev in 1929, the members of his Ballets Russes went in many directions. In 1929-1930 de Basil's ballet troupe acted together with Aleksey Tsereteli’s opera troupe.De Basil and René Blum, ballet director at the Monte Carlo Opera, along with financier Serge Denham, founded the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in 1931. The ballet gave its first performance in Monte Carlo in 1932.Blum and de Basil did not agree artistically, leading to a 1934 split, after which de Basil hooked up with financier Sol Hurok. Col. de Basil initially renamed the company Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil.In 1937, René Blum and former Ballets Russes choreographer Léonide Massine organized a new ballet company and lured away some of de Basil's dancers. In addition, Massine sued de Basil in London to regain the intellectual property rights to his own works. He also sued to claim the Ballet Russe de 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 & Blum's company could be called Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Col. de Basil renamed his company again, as the Covent Garden Russian Ballet. In 1939, he gave the company its final name, the Original Ballet Russe.De Basil brought the Original Ballet Russe on a tour of Australia in 1939–1940. He had earlier organised tours to Australia in 1936–1937 and 1938–1939, although he did not travel with the company. During his visit to Australia, de Basil commissioned work from Australians, especially from designers, who included Sidney Nolan and Kathleen and Florence Martin. He also instigated a design competition for an original Australian ballet, which was won by Donald Friend with designs for a ballet based on a fictitious event in the life of Ned Kelly.He directed Ballets Russes companies, which performed under a variety of different names, until his death in Nice in 1951.".
- Wassily_de_Basil birthDate "1888-09-16".
- Wassily_de_Basil birthName "Vassily Grigorievich Voskresensky".
- Wassily_de_Basil birthPlace Kaunas.
- Wassily_de_Basil birthPlace Lithuania.
- Wassily_de_Basil birthYear "1888".
- Wassily_de_Basil deathDate "1951-07-27".
- Wassily_de_Basil deathPlace France.
- Wassily_de_Basil deathPlace Nice.
- Wassily_de_Basil deathYear "1951".
- Wassily_de_Basil knownFor Original_Ballet_Russe.
- Wassily_de_Basil nationality Citizenship_of_Russia.
- Wassily_de_Basil occupation Ballet.
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- Wassily_de_Basil stateOfOrigin Citizenship_of_Russia.
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- Wassily_de_Basil wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colonel W. de Basil".
- Wassily_de_Basil wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colonel de Basil".
- Wassily_de_Basil wikiPageWikiLinkText "De Basil".
- Wassily_de_Basil wikiPageWikiLinkText "Vasily Voskresensky".
- Wassily_de_Basil wikiPageWikiLinkText "W. de Basil".
- Wassily_de_Basil wikiPageWikiLinkText "Wassily de Basil".
- Wassily_de_Basil wikiPageWikiLinkText "de Basil".
- Wassily_de_Basil alias "Colonel W. de Basil".
- Wassily_de_Basil birthDate "1888-09-16".
- Wassily_de_Basil birthName "Vassily Grigorievich Voskresensky".
- Wassily_de_Basil birthPlace Kaunas.
- Wassily_de_Basil birthPlace Lithuania.
- Wassily_de_Basil deathDate "1951-07-27".
- Wassily_de_Basil deathPlace France.
- Wassily_de_Basil deathPlace Nice.
- Wassily_de_Basil knownFor "Co-founder of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo".
- Wassily_de_Basil name "Wassily de Basil".
- Wassily_de_Basil nationality Citizenship_of_Russia.
- Wassily_de_Basil occupation "ballet impresario".
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- Wassily_de_Basil hypernym Basil.
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- Wassily_de_Basil comment "Wassily de Basil (16 September 1888 – 27 July 1951), usually referred to as Colonel W. de Basil, was a Russian ballet impresario.De Basil was born Vassily Grigorievich Voskresensky in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1888 (his year of birth is given variously as 1880 or 1886.) He is said to have been a colonel in the Cossack army, although his claim to the title \"Colonel\" is disputed.".
- Wassily_de_Basil label "Wassily de Basil".
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- Wassily_de_Basil sameAs Воскресенский,_Василий_Григорьевич.