P H OTO G RAP H S
The prince, danced by Viktor Rona, principal dancer and later director of ballet at the Budapest Opera House, compares two shoes and realises that he has found the one which will fit Cinderella. Cinderella is danced by Galina Samsova, a Russian dancer who trained at the Kiev Ballet School but at the time of this ballet performance, was dancing at the National Ballet of Canada, which she joined in 1961. P2J0138
CINDERELLA, THÉÂTRE DES CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES, 1963 AT THE TIME THE MOST EXPENSIVE BALLET PERFORMED IN PARIS
At the time this production was the most expensive ballet ever mounted, costing 135 million Francs (the equivalent of 2 million dollars) to produce. Jacqueline de Ribes and Raymondo de Larrain (nephew of the Marquis de Cuevas) raised the money. It combined the children’s fairytale story with the modern choreography of Vaslav Orlikovsky, Master of the Basel Ballet. The clown was danced by Phillip Dalhmann. P2J0137
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