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2 unusual facts about Wassily de Basil


Wassily de Basil

He also instigated a design competition for an original Australian ballet, which was won by Donald Friend with designs for a ballet based on a fictitious event in the life of Ned Kelly.

He directed Ballets Russes companies, which performed under a variety of different names, until his death in Nice in 1951.



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