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Balanchine took advantage of his ability as a good partner as well as dancer in creating the role of man is struck by the beauty of a lady at the ball whom he pursues to be taunted by her as she changes to an old crone, back to a beauty and leaves with the Astrologer unmasked as his handsome rival. Balanchine experimented with choreographic ideas in Dolin’s pas de deux with Danilova and included acrobatic steps in his solo that ended with a ‘somersault climax [which] won applause’.\r\nLe Bal (The Ball), a modern ballet in one act and two scenes had sets and costumes designed Giorgio de Chirico, was created for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 7 May 1929. The musical score was by Vittorio Rieti, the narrative by Boris Kochno, after a story by Count Vladimir Sologub, and it was choreographed in 1929 by George Balanchine. The costumes executed under the direction of Mme A. Youkine. The original ballet had 15 performances being presented only during the last season of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo, Paris, Berlin and London where it was first performed on 26 July 1929 also at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. When Massine created a new version of the ballet in 1935 using the original score, sets and costumes the role of the Young Man was danced by Roman Jasinsky.\r\nMalherbe observed that Dolin’s costume as the Young Man suggested ‘a light infantryman of the Second Empire’. It was worn with grey trousers with side stripe and a red military cap. Overall it has fewer architectural features than many created for this ballet but the back of the jacket includes suche details. The design for the Young Man's costume is at the Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Connecticut and reproduced in Alexander Schouvaloff The Art of the Ballets Russes (Yale 1997). 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