A budding choreographer in the late 1940s, he had formed a small troupe, Les Ballets de l Étoile, by 1953.

She also worked briefly with George Balanchine in Les Ballets 1933.

Les Ballets will be at the City Center through Feb. 18.

The exhibition is a springboard for further research and does much to clear up the historical haze around Les Ballets 1933.

Les Ballets 1933 was a meeting ground of clashing esthetics, but the essential Balanchine of the future is visible nonetheless.

Les Ballets 1933 closed down in a dispute over artistic control.

The exhibition suggests that their first company in 1934-35, the American Ballet, was modeled on Les Ballets 1933.

The truth is that Les Ballets 1933 was still another small ballet troupe formed by Russian emigres to further their creative ideas.

Balanchine's current reputation accounts for the renewed interest in Les Ballets 1933.

She left the following year and was given starring roles by Balanchine in his short-lived troupe Les Ballets 1933.