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Article: Russian revolution takes Ohio. (News).(Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo)(Brief Article)
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- October 1, 2002
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The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the international touring company that disbanded forty years ago, returns this month, thanks to a collaboration between the Cincinnati Ballet and the Cincinnati Art Museum, a pair of documentary filmmakers, and former Ballet Russe principal dancer Frederic Franklin.
The museum is showcasing original sketches and costumes in "The Golden Age of Costume and Set Design for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1938-1944." The Cincinnati Ballet's fortieth-anniversary season opener, "Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo--The Golden Years (Dance, Sets, and Costumes)," features George Balanchine's La Sonnambula and rare excerpts from Leonide Massine's ...