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he must be in his 90's now, seems surreal

—From the New York Times: Paul Petroff (1908-1981), was a ballet teacher and a leading dancer with the American Ballet Theater. Born in Elsinore, Denmark as Paul Pedersen, Mr. Petroff was a premier danseur with Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe and the Original Ballet Russe from 1932 to 1943, where he was known for his skill in partnering in the classical repertory. He was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater from 1943 to 1945. In 1948 he and his late wife, the ballerina Nana Gollner, formed their own ballet company and toured extensively in South America and the United States. After teaching in Van Nuys, Calif., they founded the Academy for Classical Russian Ballet in Antwerp in 1977.  

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]  

Wonderful and here's some more info about the ballet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)

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