Krassovska came from a family of dancers –
her grandmother was a soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet and
her mother danced with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. She
studied alongside the “Baby Ballerinas” Irina
Baronova and Tamara Toumanova at Olga Preobrajenska’s
school in Paris, and then danced with George Balanchine’s
Les Ballets 1933. Krassovska joined the Ballet Russe de Monte
Carlo in 1935 as a soloist and soon was promoted to ballerina.
After leaving the Ballet Russe in 1950, she danced with the
London Festival Ballet until 1960. In the early 1960s she
settled in Dallas, Texas where she ran the Krassovska School
of Ballet Jeunesse, at which she taught until she passed away
on February 8, 2005.
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