Irina Grjebine was a French choreographer and ballet dancer, born in 1909 in Saint Petersburg, who died in 1994.
Biography
Irina Grjebine (1907–1994) was a Russian ballet dancer who worked at the Opéra russe à Paris and who later established a school of choreography and her own Russian Ballet company.
She was the daughter of Zinovii Grzhebin, a Russian publisher based in St Petersburg. With her sister Lya, she was trained in ballet by Ivan Koussov, Nicolas Legat and Olga Preobrajenska.
Contemporaries
Marie-Thérèse Walter
cohabitant of Pablo Picasso (1909–1977)
David Lichine
ballet dancer and choreographer (1910-1972)
Dora Maar
French photographer and painter (1907–1997)
Jean Françaix
French composer and pianist (1912–1997)
Lycette Darsonval
French dancer (1912–1996)
Serge Lifar
Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer (1905–1986)
Eugène Bozza
French composer (1905–1991)
Pierre Sancan
French musician (1916–2008)
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