COPPELIA' IS GIVEN BY BALLET THEATRE; Final Section of Its Season at Metropolitan Viewed by Large Audience IRINA BARONOVA IN LEAD Dances Role of Swanilda in Company's First ...

Irina Baronova
Irina Mikhailovna Baronova
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Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Баронова; 13 March 1919 – 28 June 2008) was a Russian ballerina and actress who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s. She created roles in Léonide Massine's Le Beau Danube (1924), Jeux d'enfants (1932), and Les Présages (1933); and in Bronislava Nijinska's Les Cent Baisers (1935).
Career
- 1919Born
- 2008Passed away
- Won Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Saint Petersburg
- •Citizenship: United States
- •Known as: ballet dancer
- •Spouse: Cecil Tennant
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