Baby Ballerinas

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The Baby Ballerinas were three young principal dancers of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the 1930s.^[1] They were discovered by George Balanchine in the Paris studios of former Imperial ballerinas Olga Preobrajenskaya and Mathilde Kschessinskaya. The three girls, Irina Baronova and Tamara Toumanova, each 12, and Tatiana Riabouchinska, 14, already had some performing experience, and Balanchine had now chosen them to star in a new company, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo; he was to be its chief choreographer.

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