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Jeux

Music: Claude Debussy.
Choreography and plot: Vaslaw Nijinsky.
Sets and costumes: Leon Bakst.

Premiered on May 15, 1913 by the Ballets Russes in Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées).

Dancers at the premiere: Vaslaw Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina, Ludmilla Schollar.

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.


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