The very popular and innovative company performed cutting-edge choreographies by Fokine, Nijinsky, Massine, Nijinska, and Balanchine.

Apparently, Diaghilev's Polish secretary on a recruiting assignment had found several dancers including the sixteen-year-old Woizikovsky.

That year also Woizikovsky in Les Femmes de bonne humeur masterfully played a dinner waiter who mimed the dishes ordered, e.g., spaghetti.

Woizikovsky performed in the 'Three Ivans', designed by Nijinska, added to the 1921 production of Petipa's The Sleeping Princess.

The following year he played roles in Les Biches (as one of the two Athletes) and in Le Train bleu (as the Golfer).

[18] Lydia Sokolova later wrote about Woizikovsky's performance in the 'beach ballet' that was Le Train Bleu: "Leon discovered me in a bathing hut" and removed [her] wrap.

It'd been formed by René Blum and Wassily de Basil in order to continue the project started by the late Diaghilev.

[25][26][27] During the early 1930s, along with other Ballets Russes dancers (Karsavina, Idzikowski, Lopokova, Spessivtseva), he worked with the Vic-Wells company of Ninette de Valois in London.

For the company he choreographed two ballets, Port Said (music by K. Konstantinov) and L'Amour sorcier (de Falla).

[30][31] As the "ballet master and leading male dancer" Woizikovsky joined Wassily de Basil's company at Covent Garden.

Further stops in Australia and New Zealand similarly inspired the public, which knew little first-hand of Diaghilev's ballet repertoire.

This eventually led to the rise of "artistic differences" between Jan Hoyer the régisseur (stage manager) and Woizikovsky.

[32] In 1938 Woizikovsky succeeded Bronislava Nijinska as director of the recently-formed state-sponsored Ballet Polonais in Warsaw.

Yet when the company arrived back home in Poland, both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were about to invade, starting World War II.

[41] The two then thrived for a time, sharing their lives as principal dancers in Ballets Russes, and briefly in other dance companies.

In 1929 on vacation in the south of France, at Le Lavandou, Lydia opened a newspaper carrying news of the sudden death in Venice of Sergei Diaghilev.

"[42]Sokolova remembered that she and Woizikovsky performed a certain pas de deux, a piece which in rehearsal "we enjoyed dancing though we did not think it anything special".

He had "a phenomenal photographic mind" which, e.g., allowed him to commit to memory pages of dance notations for Le Sacre Du Primtemps.

[43] In an episode circa 1924, two dancers wanted to strike for a raise in salary against Diaghilev and Ballets Russes.

The dancers then decided that after the night's performance: "[A] small deputation should address Diaghilev... and Leon being the universal comrade was chosen to lead it.

In the royal presence Leon accidentally kicked open a "huge backgammon box" sending its "discs spinning and rattling in every direction" as Diaghilev looked on.