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A major photography book that documents the history of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo through the life of one of the company s prima ballerinas, Irina Baronova. The author is Baronova s daughter, the actor Victoria Tennant. Please note that the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo is the offspring of the earlier Ballets Russes created by Serge Diaghilev in Paris, dissolved in 1929.
Through a lavish comingling of rare photographs and texts by Tennant and Baronova, this book explores the rise of modern ballet in Europe, the US, and Australia in the 20th century. The transformation of dance into a popular and sophisticated art form is told through the life of one of its most distinguished performers of the 30s and 40sthe prima ballerina Irina Baranova, who danced first with the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and then with Ballet Theatre in New York City. The book s tremendous sweep begins with the Russian Revolution and the dancers who gathered in Paris, having fled the terrors of their own country. It progresses to the Great Depression in America with the Ballets Russes crisscrossing the nationand in fact, the entire world--spreading the good news of ballet and starting a veritable craze for the art form in the US and Australia.
Among the gifted artists who worked for Ballets Russes was a young choreographer, George Balanchine, who made dance into something daring, ambitious, and cosmopolitan."
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Victoria Tennant played the title role in her first film, The Ragman's Daughter, in 1972, and she has since then gone on to work in film, television, theater, and radio, receiving Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Tells the story of the rise of modern ballet and its popularity through the life story of one of ballet's most glamorous stars, Irina Baronova (1919-2008), prima ballerina for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and later for Ballet Theatre in New York.
