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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 23:35:32, 02-07-2008 »
Irina Baranova, Balanchine's prima ballerina who created many roles for the emigre Ballets Russes company, has died aged 89.  An appreciation in the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/dance/02baronova.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #1 on: 00:36:57, 03-07-2008 »
This is sad news, indeed, Reiner, and I am grateful for your lead.

Coincidentally, I'm now reading "Somewhere - The Life of Jerome Robbins" (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007)  and I was intrigued to read about Irina Baronova's involvement with Ballet Theatre when impressario Sol Hurok who had been presenting two Ballet Russes companies, abandoned them in favour of Ballet Theatre (later Ballet USA) which would concentrate on the contemporary English and American repertory on a more manageable budget.   Hurok installed his own assistant, German Sevastianov as business manager - and Sevastianov brought along his wife, the former Ballet Russes "baby ballerina" Irina Baronova as a principal dancer, alongside Alicia Markova and the emerging Nora Kaye.  The early 1940s, leading to Bernstein's Fancy Free in 1944, must have been a remarkably creative era in the development of the contemporary dance movement.
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« Reply #2 on: 14:39:00, 16-07-2008 »
She was one of the first ballerinas I ever heard of, not because I had ever seen her, but because there was a photograph of her in a book belonging to my mother (was it Arnold Haskell's Balletomania?), as one of Diaghilev's " baby ballerinas", along with Toumanova and Tatiana Riabouchinska. It seems like a thousand years ago.
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