Bibliograph

Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Victoria Tennant

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Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Victoria Tennant

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Victoria Tennant

Summary

In the 1930s and ’40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication. This sumptuous, illustrated history 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

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