Word: preobrajenska
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...feathery Tatiana Riabouchinska, whom Colonel de Basil has insured against marriage; dark dynamic Tamara Tamounova and Irina Baronova. The greatest of these, says Critic Haskell, is Baronova, 15, ashy, pale-haired Russian emigrée who grew up in the Balkans, studied in Paris with the Imperial ballerina, Olga Preobrajenska. Baronova's technic is amazing. She can do 32 spins (fouettés) without stopping. But more, her dancing has the same subtle, unearthly quality which marked the early playing of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Author Haskell prides himself on his collection of ballet slippers, although as a balletomaniac...
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