The ballet was an unqualified triumph. 1922 Two new ballets are premiered during the May-June season at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Paris: Aurora's Wedding , a one-act version of The Sleeping Princess , and Le Renard . Le fondateur des Grands Ballets russes, vient d'une famille de danseurs de ballet très distingués et talentueux. Cette histoire d’amour défiant la mort, « Giselle », est un chef-d’œuvre en deux actes avec musique d’Adolphe Adam et chorégraphie de Marius Petipa. Le ballet russe a été considéré comme le baromètre de la danse classique depuis de nombreuses décennies, ouvrant la voie et séduisant le public tout au long de son chemin. The Original Ballet Russe (originally named 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. Grand Ballet Russe. The famous Ballets Russes took Europe and the U.S. by storm during the early 20th century. Giselle became hugely popular and was staged at once across Europe, Russia, and the United States. The ghost -filled ballet tells the tragic, romantic story of a beautiful young peasant girl who falls for the flirtations of the deceitful and disguised nobleman Albrecht. Le Grand Ballet Russe vous invite à voir l’une des productions de ballet les plus populaires de tous les temps. Although he is already engaged to Bathilde, daughter of the Prince of Courland, he … The ballet is set in a small village in the Rhineland, Germany in the early nineteenth century, where Albrecht, the Duke of Silesia, masquerades as a peasant under the pseudonym of Loys. Giselle. Homans posits that what mattered in Giselle and other Romantic ballets were bold new developments using “movement, gesture, and music to capture an evanescent memory- fleeting thought – to give concrete physical and theatrical form to the… immaterial stuff of the mind.” And so, in an evolutionary turn, the dance itself became the thing. In November, the Ballets Russes premiered a full-length version of The Sleeping Princess, based on the well-known ballet The Sleeping Beauty at the Alhambra Theatre, London.