Ramon Jasinski; Dance Star Formed Distinguished Company in U.S.

Ramon Jasinski, 83, a star of the the Ballets Russes companies that dominated international dance from the 1920s through the 1950s. Jasinski worked with such choreographers as George Balanchine, Leonide Massine and Michel Fokine and later with his wife, an American Indian dancer from Oklahoma, formed a distinguished company in Tulsa, Okla. In 1987, the Jasinskis produced the first U.S. performance of Balanchine’s “Mozart Violin Concerto” and brought it to New York the following year. As a dancer, Jasinski was best known for his performances in “Les Syphides,” “Icare” and “Prodigal Son.” On Tuesday in Tulsa of congestive heart failure.