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<H1> Jeux </H1>
<p>Music: Claude <b>Debussy</b>.<br>
Choreography and plot: Vaslaw <a href="Nijinsky.html"><b>Nijinsky</b></a>.<br>
Sets and costumes: Leon Bakst.</p>
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Premiered on May 15, 1913 by the <a href="dance1.html">Ballets Russes</a> in Paris (Th&eacute;&acirc;tre des Champs-Elys&eacute;es).</p>
<p>Dancers at the premiere: Vaslaw <a href="Nijinsky.html">Nijinsky</a>,
Tamara Karsavina, Ludmilla Schollar.</p>

<p>Three tennis-players, a boy and two girls, meet by chance in a garden. He flirts
with both of them, but cannot make up his mind which one to choose,
they depart in different directions.</p>

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