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WW | Inspiring WW | inspiring THE BYRON BAY region on visited her backstage in Berlin; never know what to expect next the North Coast of NSW is that the greatest choreographers … All those artists were such known to boast a musician on of the 20th century – Leonard colourful personalities. They every hill. What is barely known Massine, George Balanchine, were great and, yes, it was a is that on one particularly glorious Bronislava Nijinska and golden age for us … but it ridge above a quilt of pastoral Michel Fokine – chose to work never made the head grow too green is a prima ballerina who with her; and that artists such big for one’s hat. When I think once performed on the most as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, of them, I think, ‘Gosh’. But illustrious stages of the world, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall and then you take it in your stride. at one time 100 cities in four Salvador Dali designed her So it was Salvador [Dali] who electrifying months. costumes and stage sets. was pinning my skirt. So what?” Ask her today about her The memories swirl and So what? The mind extraordinary life and sprinkle her days with gold cartwheels with the thought 86-year-old Irina Baronova dust. “All of them [Picasso, of those with whom Irina can scarcely believe it herself Matisse, Chagall, Dali] came once kept company. A first – that as one of the three so- to all of the fittings,” she says, marriage to Jerry Sevastianov called “Baby Ballerinas” with “choosing the fabric. It was a (nephew of the famous Russian the legendary Ballet Russe de collaboration … The most actor and producer, Konstantin Monte Carlo, she danced in temperamental of them and the Stanislavsky); a wild affair London for King George V one that made us giggle was with the young Yul Brynner; and Queen Mary (and then their Picasso [whereas] Joan Miró an 18-year marriage to the successors, King George VI and and Matisse – they were the great love of her life, Cecil Queen Elizabeth); that Adolf peaceful ones. Dali was Tennant, London’s leading tHitler and Josef Goebbels always amusing. You would theatrical agent of the ’50s dancethe Kings and queens, dictators, film stars and giants of the art world have allof worshipped at the feetlife of legendary Russian ballerina Irina Baronova. Here, she tells David Leser about her extraordinary and colourful life. PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM BAUER STYLED BY JANE DE TELIGA 90 | WW OCTOBER 2005 and ’60s; an abiding friendship cross the river,” she told Irina’s with Laurence Oliver and Vivien mother. “It will keep her quiet.” Leigh; mother-in-law at one time And it did … Irina Baronova to actor Steve Martin [husband has been sucking on sugar cubes of her daughter, Victoria Tennant] since. “I prefer it to chocolate,” plus a society of friends and she says now merrily. acquaintances that now reads For the next eight years, like the Who’s Who of a dazzling Irina Baronova and her parents bygone era – actors such as lived in near destitution in Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Romania – her father, a Dietrich, Shirley Temple, Clark designer of enormous talent, Gable, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, forced into factory work; her Noel Coward and Marilyn mother, a once aristocratic Monroe; and, of course, the beauty, compelled to accept pre-eminent dancers of their the squalor of a refugee’s life. time, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Lydia Baronova took her Baryshnikov, Tamara Karsavina bitterness and sense of loss out and Margot Fonteyn. on her daughter. She also planted We could drop names in Irina the seed of her own forever here, but it would magnificent and unrealised hardly penetrate the surface obsession – to become a ballerina. of a remarkable life story. Far “Ballerina?” her daughter better – and more pertinent – asked her one day, nonplussed. to recall that, were it not for “What is that?” a few cubes of sugar, there She was to learn soon would have been no life, no enough. At the age of seven- glittering career, at all. and-a-half, she was sent to That’s what it came down study ballet after school in a to one perilous night 85 years dishevelled one-room flat in ago, on the border of Soviet Bucharest. Her rich potential Russia and Romania. It was the end of November 1920 and Irina’s father, Michael Baronov, Were it not for a few cubes a former lieutenant in the Tsar’s navy, together with his of sugar, there would have been wife, Lydia, were fleeing the bloody carnage of the Bolshevik Revolution with their one-year- no life, no glittering career, at all. old daughter. was soon obvious. She had the soloists at the Palais. Then one Already their home had balance, the discipline, the day in 1931, two visitors – been requisitioned and Irina’s ability to get up on her toes, Colonel Wassily Grigorievich maternal grandfather shot in stretch her knees and make her de Basil and Georgi Balanchine the head at point blank range. upper body sing to the music. – arrived at the dance studio to On her father’s side, the entire “Irischka, you must have a meet the students. De Basil extended family was soon chance in life,” her father was was an entrepreneur and former to disappear. to eventually tell her. “We director of the Russian Opera So here the three of them shall go to Paris.” in Paris. He was to become were on the frigid banks of the And they did, in 1928, just known in Australia as the man Dniester River, trying to get when the French capital was who toured – on three occasions into Romania with the help of drawing into its sensual embrace – the world-famous Ballets a man who had just managed the best writers, painters, Russes. Georgi Balanchine was to spirit his own family across. photographers, designers and the famous choreographer “I have to warn you,” he told dancers of their generation. Irina’s parents. “If your child Irina began ballet cries or makes any noise, I’ll classes under the eagle have to throw her overboard. eye of the Russian dancer My life comes first.” Olga Preobrajenska and Irina’s father was prepared within a year had become to kill himself and his family to the star pupil, along with avoid such a fate, but an old another child prodigy, peasant woman came to their Tamara Toumanova. Top: Irina, 21, as Lise in rescue first. Among her meagre Soon the two girls were Nijinska’s ballet, La Fille possessions was a box of sugar dancing at tea parties for Mal Gardee, in 1940. Above: cubes, the remains of which high society baronesses, Irina Baronova, aged four, and her mother, Lydia, she decided to offer them. appearing in children’s in 1923. Left: Her father, “Stuff them piece by piece into plays on the Champs Michael, in his imperial navy uniform in 1919. MAURICE SEYMORE, CHICAGO. COURTESY OF IRINA BARANOVA. PREVIOUS PAGE: HAIR AND MAKE-UP BY LIZ. JONES. AND MAKE-UP BY HAIR PAGE: PREVIOUS OF IRINA BARANOVA. COURTESY SEYMORE, CHICAGO. MAURICE [the baby’s] mouth as you Elysees and performing as 92 | WW OCTOBER 2005 WW OCTOBER 2005 | 93 who had worked for Sergei the lips start, where are the Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the eyelashes, if there are any left. major ballet company in the Maybe it’s good. I can’t see any Western world, until Diaghilev’s wrinkles, hooray [laughter].” death in Paris in 1929. And then, fixing me in her What these men were beguiling but near-blind gaze, she proposing was to form a new says, “I see you have something ballet company in the image of light on top, but you have no Diaghilev, the Russian nobleman head, no face [laughing more], who had revolutionised 20th so if I want to see what you look century music, theatre and dance. like, I have to come nose to nose It had been Diaghilev who had really to inspect your face.” brought together the genius Would you like to do that? talents of composers, artists and “Yes, please,” and with that choreographers – men such as she pulls my face towards her, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, grabs both cheeks and gives them Jean Cocteau and George a squeeze. “Yes, nice,” she coos. Balanchine – for the stage. “Good. Now I can see you.” And now Balanchine and Well, that’s one way to de Basil, plus a third man, disarm your guest. Another is René Blum – who was to to offer him fine food and eventually perish at Auschwitz wine – and then to speak from – were to revive Diaghilev’s the heart about the joys and company by introducing to the sorrows of her life, joys which world young dancers fresh she now spreads out in photo out of ballet school. The three form on the table before us. dancers they chose were “That’s me in Swan Lake,” Tamara Tourmanova, Tatiana she says. “I played Odile … Riabouchinska and Irina and that’s me in Bluebeard. I Baronova, and they were to was the last of the six wives … who got the better of the “Goebbels kept sending me and Tania cards husband. And that’s Aurora’s Wedding, part of Sleeping Beauty, and I was Princess and bouquets of beautiful lilacs ... at least Aurora … and here I am as the Queen of Shemakhan …” two or three times a week.” So many roles over a 17-year period as the Ballet Russe eventually be dubbed The de Monte Carlo – and all its Three Baby Ballerinas, by a subsequent namesakes – played London dance critic.
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