Ballets Russes
Ballets Russes was a ballet company founded by Sergei Diaghilev in 1909 in Paris, used to make propaganda for the Bonaparte's (french freemasonry) in alliance with Russian secret service Okhrana, and to recreate the Greek cult of Dionysus and Pan in modern art. |
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It employed composers of classical music like Igor Stravinsky and designers Léon Bakst Rosenberg, Nicolas Roerich of the Theosophical Society, Pablo Picasso and his wife Olga Khoklava, Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau, Henri Matisse, Giorgio De Chirico, Salvador Dali (Surrealism),.. The media coverage was in hands of Woodrow Wilson's propaganda agent Edward Bernays, cousin of Sigmund Freud.
It was supported by the Romanov's and funded by the Gunzburgs. Sergei Witte of Okhrana was the cousin of Helena Blavatsky. Diaghilev also worked with Theosophist Alexander Scriabin.
Productions
1909 Prince Igor Alexander Borodin (Romanticism) Nicholas Roerich (Theosophical Society, supported by US vice-president Henry Wallace who put the one eye pyramid on the dollar bill).
1909 Le Festin Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Tchaikovsky,,..
1909 Les Sylphides Frédéric Chopin Igor Stavinsky (student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov).
1909 Cleopatra Ida Rubinstein (jewish, Legion of Honour) Léon Bakst
1910 Carnaval Robert Schumann
1910 Les Orientales Edvard Grieg Léon Bakst
1910 The Firebird (alchemical symbol of the phoenix) Igor Stravinsky
1911 Petrushka (dissonant music)
1911 Le Spectre de la Rose Carl Maria von Weber poster by Jean Cocteau
1911 Swan Lake (alchemical swan symbolism) Pyotr Tchaikovsky Lev Ivanov
1912 The Afternoon of a Faun (mimicing masturbation= sex magic of the OTO, shocking of audience and controversy as marketing trick of Edward Bernays) Vaslav Njinski (gay agenda with Marcel Proust) Claude Debussy Léon Bakst based on poem of Symbolist Stéphane Mallarmé.
1912 Daphnis et Cloè Maurice Ravel
1913 Jeux Claude Debussy (stayed at Villa Medici)
1913 The Rite of Spring (year of Paris Working of Aleister Crowley and Victor Neuburg, cult of Baal) Igor Stravinsky
1914 The Legend of Joseph Richard Strauss Hugo von Hoffmansthal
1916 Till Uelenspiegel (owl symbolism) Richard Strauss
1917 Parade Eric Satie (Dada) Léonide Massine (The Red Shoes =ruby slippers, Wizard of Oz programming of The Rank Organisation) Olga Khoklava Pablo Picasso scenario of Jean Cocteau.
1919 The Fantastic Toyshop (premiere at Alhambra Theatre in London) Gioachino Rossini André Derain (Fauvism) Lydia Lopokova (Imperial Ballet School)
1920 Pulcinella Igor Stravinsky Pablo Picasso (year Stravinsky moved to France and met with Coco Chanel).
1921 Chout Sergei Prokofiev
1921 The Sleeping Beauty Pyotr Tchaikovsky Léon Bakst
1922 Mavra Igor Stravinsky Bronislova Njinska
1922 Renard (The Fox) Igor Stravinsky
1925 Barabau George Balanchine (Legion of Honour, trained by Joseph Pilates, who collaborated with Rudolf Laban).
1926 Romeo and Juliet Juan Miro (studio with André Masson) Max Ernst
1927 Mercure (cult of Mercury) Pablo Picasso
1928 Apollo Igor Stravinsky
1928 Ode Nikolai Nabokov (CIA front CCF, cousin of Vladimir Nabokov)
1929 Le Bal Giorgio De Chirico
Diaghilev died in 1929. The Ballets Russes of Monte Carlo was formed in 1932, funded by René Blum (died at Auschwitz), brother of socialist pm of France Léon Blum (Buchenwald).
Edward Bernays (trained at Cornell) also worked with opera tenors like Enrico Caruso to turn them into 'stars' (Age of Aquarius the Star, Crowley's prophecy 'Every man and woman is a star'), to recreate the Greek Pantheon in pop culture. Caruso's wife was a disciple of George Gurdjieff.
Stravinsky was supported by Edward Waldo Forbes (S&B family) when he moved to LA in 1939 and met with writers WH Auden (gay agenda), Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley. Auden's circle consisted of Aleister Crowley, Allen Ginsberg, JP Sartre, WB Yeats (HOGD), Stephen Spender (friend of André Malraux CCF). He wrote the libretto for The Rake's Progress.
Léon Bakst Rosenberg was educated at Académie Julian (Jacob Epstein, Jean Arp, Fernand Khnopf, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Emil Nolde, Robert Rauschenberg, Diego Riviera, Max Weber, Beatrice Wood) and the teacher of Kyrill Vladimirovich Romanov (nazi scene in Munich with Russian emigré's) and later of Marc Chagall (married to Bella Rosenfeld). He also worked for James and Dorothy Rothschild.
Lydia Lopokova was engaged to Heywood Broun, a member of the Algonquin Roundtable with Dorothy Parker Rothschild and married John Maynard Keynes (Cambridge Apostles with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Aldous Huxley).
George Balanchine founded the NY City Ballet (Lincoln Center with Julliard School, used in film Black Swan) in 1948 with Mikhail Baryshnikov (Imperial Ballet School, American Ballet School with Léonide Massine and Marc Chagall).
Yvonne Craig played in Batman with Adam West and appeared in Ballets Russes (2005) of Zeitgeist Films.