Irina Baronova

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Irina Baronova (1937)

Irina Mikhailovna Baronova ( Russian Ири́на Миха́йловна Баро́нова ; born March  13, 1919 in Petrograd ; †  June 28, 2008 in Byron Bay , Australia ) was a Russian-British ballet dancer and actress.

Career

From 1928 Baronova studied with Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Matilda Kschessinskaja in Paris, made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1930 and was engaged by George Balanchine for Orpheus in the Underworld in 1931 . In 1932 he invited her to join the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo ensemble . Baronova was one of the three famous "baby ballerinas" (together with Tamara Toumanova and Tatjana Rjabuschinskaja ). After a 15-year career with the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and the Ballet Theater (later: American Ballet Theater ), she retired from the stage at the request of her husband Cecil Tennant. She later worked a. a. as a ballet teacher and in 1986 studied Fokins Les Sylphides for the Australian Ballet. Baronova starred in six films, including a. in Train of Events (1949). She was the mother of actress Victoria Tennant .

literature

  • Irina: Ballet, Life and Love . Autobiography, 2005, Penguin / Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-02848-1 , University Press of Florida ISBN 978-0-8130-3026-5
  • Victoria Tennant: Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. University of Chicago Press, Chicago a. London 2014. ISBN 978-0-226-16716-9
  • Irina Baronova, entry in International Encyclopedia of Dance (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), volume 1, p. 367.
  • Jack Anderson: The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo . Dance Horizons, New York 1981.
  • Vicente García-Marquez: The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo 1932-1952. Knopf, New York 1990. ISBN 0-394-52875-1

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SURNAME Baronova, Irina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Баронова, Ирина Михайловна (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-British ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrograd
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2008
Place of death Byron Bay