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Geneviève Moulin (b.1921) was a French ballerina who performed with the Original Ballet Russe. She also used the Russian stage name of Lubov Zlatina. [1] "David Lichine (1910-1972) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and choreographer. In the re-formation of Russian ballet companies after the death of Serge Diaghilev, Lichine became a charter member of Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, founded in January 1932 by Colonel Wassily de Basil, René Blum, and Serge Grigoriev. As a principal dancer, Lichine stayed with de Basil's company from its inception until 1941, headlining the company through all its subsequent renamings, which finally ended as Original Ballet Russe in 1939. "He had an international career as a performer, ballet master, and choreographer, staging works for many ballet companies and for several Hollywood film studios."[2] Oddly, with many available references to performances of Aurora's Wedding by the three different Ballets Russes companies touring Australia between 1936-1940, I've not found any mention of either Geneviève Moulin or David Lichine performing the Bluebird pas de deux. [3] [4]  

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Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a famous Russian ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. After settling in Hampstead, England, she began teaching ballet professionally and would become recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. She assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance, which is now the world's largest dance teaching organisation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Karsavina

Great series of old photos.

I love this. Thanks so much for posting all these photos!

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Left to Right: Helen Brecknell, Helen Thibou, Sonia Humphrey (1947-2011), Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), Michael Somes (1917-1994), Edouard Borovanksky (1902-1959); Mascot Airport, Sydney, May 1957. Don't miss reading "When Sonia met Margot" -- a brief article by Valerie Lawson that explains how these 3 nine-year-old girls came to meet Margot Fonteyn (and appeared on page one of The Sydney Morning Herald) -- and how this chance meeting led to another front page Herald story, five years later, showing Sonia and Fonteyn looking at the previous photo together. This is a gem of a footnote that totally brings this photo to life!  

Thanks, Pixel Wrangler