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Balanchine has acknowledged his debt to Diaghilev as the second great influence on his artistic growth and development, after the training he received at the Imperial Ballet School (now the Vaganova). Before Diaghilev’s death, Balanchine created 10 new ballets for the Ballet Russes. The most important of these were Apollon Mussage`te (Apollo, Leader of The Muses), set to the Stravinsky score in 1928, and Le Fils Prodigue (The Prodigal son) in 1929, music by Sergei Prokofiev. Both were daring not in their rejecting to classical tradition but in their affirmation of it. Apollo was an athletic embodiment of the creative principle. The choreography breathed new life into the classical style by treating it as living geometry-orderly, arbitrary, even artificial but, precisely because of that, intensely human. Balanchine focused on dance. His freshly wrought combinations and permutations of standards steps an poses provoked laughter from some members of the audiences. After Diaghilev’s death, Balanchine worked with the Royal Danish Ballet, helped with the launch one of the several successor troupes to the original Ballets Russes, and in 1933 founded his own company to put on new works.
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