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Jean Babilée in front of the Doge’s Palace, September 1950 - photo by Serge Lido

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Jean Cocteau works with Jean Babilée and Nathalie Philippart - photo by Serge Lido in Danse - Masques, 1947

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Jean Cocteau works with Jean Babilée and Nathalie Philippart, interpreters of his ballet Le Jeune Homme et la Mort. Premiered on 25 June 1946. Photo by Serge Lido, published in La Danse: Masques in 1947

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Jean Babilée (2 February 1923 - 30 January 2014) and Nathalie Philippart (1930 - 2006) during a rehearsal for Jeu de Cartes. Photo by Serge Lido - 1947.

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Yvette Chauviré and Jean Babilée in La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) - photo by Serge Lido, 1955

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Jean Babilée and Nathalie Philippart performing Roland Petit’s Le Jeune Homme et la Mort in Paris in 1946. Photo by Lipnitzki/Roger Viollet

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Jean Babilée (2 February 1923 – 30 January 2014) in The Portrait of Don Quichotte. Choreography: Aurel M. Miloss. Music: Goffredo Petrassi. Scenery and Costumes: Tom Keogh. Created in 1949 by Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées. Photo by Serge Lido. 

Jean Babilée was one of the most remarkable dancers of modern ballet. He first started dancing at the Paris Opera under the tutorship of Gustav Ricaux and Alexander Volinine at the age of eleven. During the war, he danced at Cannes in Marika Besobrasova’s troop. With the Liberation, he made his first public appearance in Paris in the pas-de-deux of Blue Bird at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, which he danced with Irène Skorik. Engaged by the Ballets des Champs-Elysées in 1945, he was given a triumphant reception, interpreting the Joker in Jeu de Cartes, as well as in Cocteau’s Jeune Homme et La Morte. In 1948 he realised his first choreographic creation, l’Amour et son Amour to the music of Cesar Franck, which he himself interpreted together with Nathalie Philippart.— from “La Danse” par Serge Lido, 1949

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Jean Babilée - photo by Serge Lido