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When Ninette de Valois, the formidable founder of Britain's Royal Ballet, started her company back in 1931 she sensibly realized that first of all she needed a repertoire for her young dancers. Although a choreographer of only modest talent herself, she fairly soon acquired a genius choreographer from her rival Marie Rambert, in the person of Frederick Ashton. But new works, she felt, were not the complete solution. She needed a classic repertoire. De Valois had been with the Diaghilev company, and she soon took Michel Fokine's Les Sylphides and Carnaval from that repertoire. But the really clever thing she did was to adopt the orphaned Tchaikovsky/Petipa ballets from St. Petersburg's Maryinsky Ballet. These she obtained from Petipa's last regisseur, Nicholas Sergeyev, who had left Russia with a whole set of choreographic notations packed in a large...
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