Baby Ballerinas

Baby ballerinas is a term invented by the English writer and dance critic Arnold Haskell to describe three young dancers of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in the early 1930s: Irina Baronova (1919–2008), Tamara Toumanova (1919–1996), and Tatiana Riabouchinska (1917–2000).[1]

  1. ^ Arnold Haskell, Balletomania: The Story of an Obsession (London: Gollancz, 1934 / New York: Simon & Schuster, 1934). Reprinted by Pierides Press in 2008.