Jasinsky, Roman (1907 - 1991)

Shier, Spencer: Roman Jasinsky in costume for 'Les Dieux mendiants' ('The gods go a begging'), Ballets Russes, 1939

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Roman Jasinsky was born Czeslaw Roman Jasinski in Warsaw and received his early training at the Warsaw Opera Ballet. He came to Paris at the invitation of Bronislava Nijinska to dance with Ida Rubinstein's company in 1928 and in 1932 joined Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. In 1933 he was principal dancer with George Balanchine's short-lived company Les Ballets 1933. He rejoined de Basil at the end of 1933, touring to Australia with the de Basil Covent Garden Russian Ballet in 1938/39 and Original Ballet Russe in 1939/40. He danced with de Basil until 1947 and then returned to the United States with his American-born wife, Moscelyne Larkin, and worked with Serge Denham in his Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. He and Larkin moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma to set up a school and start a company, Tulsa ballet Theatre.

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Note: also known as Roman Jasinski

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