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140. DANS L'ÉLYSÉE

Music: By Jacques Offenbach.

Choreography: By George Balanchine.

Production: Presented by Edward James.

Premiere: July 3, 1933, Ballets Serge Lifar, Savoy Theatre, London. Conductor: Alexander Labinsky.

Cast: Felia Doubrovska.

Note: Neither Balanchine nor Doubrovska remembered this piece, but a program for the Lifar engagement at the Savoy lists Dans l'Élysée, danced by Doubrovska, with choreography uncredited. A review of Lifar's London appearances (Dancing Times, August 1933, pp. 439-40) mentions a 'solo sur les pointes to music of Offenbach choreographed by Balanchine' for Doubrovska.