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The Home, a fashionable magazine published by Sydney Ure Smith, featured many photos and articles on the Ballets Russes while the companies were visiting. This photograph of Protée was posed on the roof garden of Feltex House, Sydney. Protée—with choreography by David Lichine, music by Claude Debussy and designs by Giorgio di Chirico—was seen as a quintessentially modern European ballet.

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John Lee
Protée, Marina Svetlova, Alexandra Denisova, Sono Osato, Roman Jasinsky, Genevieve Moulin, Natasha Sobinova’ reproduced from The Home, March 1940, p. 31
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