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133.1a. [Dances for Josephine Baker] 1932
- Choreography
George Balanchine
Performance Type
Concert Works
Note
According to Lincoln Kirstein, Balanchine may have choreographed dances for Josephine Baker in Paris in 1932, probably for the Casino de Paris.
Source Notes
Lincoln Kirstein quoted in Sally Banes, ‘Balanchine and Black Dance,’ in Writing Dance in the Age of Postmodernism (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1994), p. 58; information provided by Beth Genné.
