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| x Johan Kobborg |
Johan Kobborg (born 5 June 1972 in Odense, Denmark) is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.
Kobborg started his career with the Royal Danish Ballet School in 1988 (at age 16). He became a full-time member in 1991 and principal dancer...
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| x Ninel Kurgapkina |
Ninel Alexandrovna Kurgapkina (Russian: Нинель Александровна Кургапкина; 13 February 1929, Leningrad – 8 May 2009, near St. Petersburg) was a Russian dance teacher and former prima ballerina for the Kirov Ballet with over 50 years stage experience....
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| x Daniel Meja |
Daniel Meja was born in Nice, France, educated at the Centre de Danse of Rosella Hightower in Cannes and in Paris. Danced with the London Festival Ballet and La Scala Ballet before coming to the United States, where he danced with the Cleveland...
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| x Desmond Richardson |
Desmond Richardson is co-founder and co-artistic director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet. He has mastered a wide range of dance forms including classical, modern, and contemporary.
Richardson's talent was first recognized as a student at New...
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| x Ben Stevenson |
Ben Stevenson, O.B.E., is a native of Portsmouth, England, along with being a former ballet dancer with Britain's Royal Ballet and English National Ballet, co-director of National Ballet in Washington, D.C. (1971-1975), artistic director of Houston...
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| x Igor Zelenski |
Igor Zelenski is a Russian ballet dancer. He was born in Labinsk. He has been a principal at the Mariinsky Ballet since 1991. He studied at the Vaganova academy. He was a principal for five years at the New York City Ballet. He has a wide repertoire...
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| x Alessandra Ferri |
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Alessandra Ferri (6 May 1963, Milan -) is a retired Italian ballerina. She received her training at the La Scala Theatre Ballet School and the Royal Ballet School. She danced with the Royal Ballet (1980-1984), American Ballet Theatre (1985-2007) and...
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| x Mikhail Baryshnikov |
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Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников) (born January 28, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest...
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| x Fernando Bujones |
Fernando Bujones (March 9, 1955 – November 10, 2005) was an American ballet dancer.
Born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents, Bujones is regarded as one of the finest male dancers of the 20th century (along with: Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov,...
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| x Roberto Bolle |
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Roberto Bolle is an Italian ballet dancer. He is currently a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and also holds guest artist status with The Royal Ballet and La Scala Theatre Ballet, making regular appearances with both companies.
Bolle...
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| x François Perron |
François Perron is a French born ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, who now works and resides in the United States.
François Perron, Managing Artistic Director of Studio Maestro and Manhattan Youth Ballet, is a graduate of the Paris Opera...
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| x Carlotta Grisi |
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Carlotta Grisi, real name Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi was an Italian ballet dancer. She was born on June 28, 1819 in Visinada, Istria and died on May 20, 1899 in Saint-Jean, a district of Geneva, Switzerland. She was trained at the ballet...
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| x Svetlana Beriosova |
Svetlana Beriosova (24 September 1932 – 10 November 1998) was a British prima ballerina who danced with the Royal Ballet of England for more than 20 years.
Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, the daughter of Nicolas Beriosoff (or Nicolas Beriozoff) (1906...
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| x Natalia Dudinskaya |
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Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya (21 August [O.S. 8 August] 1912, Kharkiv — 29 January 2003, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian prima ballerina who dominated the Kirov Ballet in the 1930s and 1940s.
Dudinskaya's mother was Natalia Tagliori, a ballerina...
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| x Yekaterina Geltzer |
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Yekaterina Vasilyevna Geltzer (November 2, 1876 - December 12, 1962) was a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet who danced in the theatre from 1898 to 1935. She worked with Marius Petipa, Sergei Diaghilev, and Reinhold Glière. After the Russian...
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| x Avdotia Istomina |
Evdokia or (informally) Avdotia Ilyinichna Istomina (Russian: Евдокия Ильинична Истомина; 1799–1848) was the most celebrated Russian ballerina of the 19th century. A pupil of Charles Didelot, she debuted in the Imperial Russian Ballet in 1815 to...
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| x Nina Ananiashvili |
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Nina Ananiashvili (also: Nino Ananiashvili, Georgian: ნინო ანანიაშვილი) (born March 28, 1963) is a Georgian ballerina.
She was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union, to Gedevan Ananiashvili and Lia Gogolashvili in 1963 and has two brothers....
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| x Natalia Bessmertnova |
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Natalia Igorevna Bessmertnova (Russian: Наталья Игоревна Бессмертнова; 19 July 1941 – 19 February 2008) was a Soviet prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet and a People's Artist of the USSR (1976).
She was born in Moscow in 1941 and trained at the...
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| x Tamara Karsavina |
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Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a famous Russian ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. After...
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| x Ulyana Lopatkina |
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Ulyana Vyacheslavovna Lopatkina (Russian: Ульяна Вячеславовна Лопаткина, born October 23, 1973, Kerch, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is principal dancer at the Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. She studied at the Vaganova Academy with...
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| x Natalia Makarova |
Nataliya Romanovna Makarova (Russian: Наталья Романовна Макарова, born October 21, 1940) is a Soviet-Russian-born American actress and former prima ballerina.
Makarova was born in Leningrad in former Soviet Russia. At the age of 12, she auditioned...
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| x Tatiana Mamaki |
Tatiana Varouti Mamaki (Kiev, 1921-Athens, 2007) was a notable Greek dancer and choreographer.
She studied dance in Athens at Raymons School and later in Poland where she worked at the Warsaw Opera as a dancer ; in 1939 she returned to Athens to...
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| x Ekaterina Maximova |
Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova (Russian: Екатери́на Серге́евна Макси́мова; 1 February 1939 – 28 April 2009) was a Soviet and Russian ballerina of international renown.
Maximova was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. An artist who combined great technical...
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| x Nadia Nerina |
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Nadia Nerina (21 October 1927 – 6 October 2008) was a South African ballerina. She moved to England and joined the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, where she became a prima ballerina at the age of 25. She was the first western dancer to appear with...
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| x Olga Preobrajenska |
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Olga Iosifovna Preobrajenska (Russian: Ольга Иосифовна Преображенская Ol'ga Iosifovna Preobrazhenskaya) (2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1871 – 27 December 1962) was probably the best loved ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet.
She was born in...
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| x Tatiana Riabouchinska |
Tatiana Riabouchinska (Russian: Татьяна Рябушинская) was a Russian prima ballerina. She was born on 23 May 1917 in Moscow, and died in Los Angeles on 24 August 2000. She was trained by the great Mathilde Kschessinska, and was later a prima ballerina...
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| x Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky |
Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky (Ukrainian: Рома Прийма-Богачевська, translit. Roma Pryima-Bohachevs'ka) (1927-May 23, 2004) was an internationally recognized dancer and choreographer, who instructed thousands of students in the art of ballet and Ukrainian...
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| x Tamara Rojo |
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Tamara Rojo (born in 1974) is a Spanish prima ballerina, and is currently a Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.
Tamara was born in Montreal, Canada to Spanish parents who moved back to Spain when she was four months old. She started...
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| x Ekaterina Sankovskaya |
Ekaterina Sankovskaya (1816, Moscow - 28 August 1878, Moscow) was a Russian dancer who graduated from the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet School in 1836. Revered for her celebrated performances in the title roles of such works as Giselle and La Esmeralda,...
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| x Ludmila Semenyaka |
Ludmila Semenyaka (Russian: Людмила Семеняка, b. 16 January 1952) was a Soviet ballerina, born in Leningrad. She studied at the Vaganova School as a pupil of Nina Belikova. She joined the Kirov Ballet in 1970 and later the Bolshoi Ballet in 1972,...
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| x Marina Semenova |
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Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova (Russian: Марина Тимофеевна Семёнова, born in Saint-Petersburg on 12 June 1908 [O.S. 31 May]) is the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975.
The first great dancer...
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| x Olga Spesivtseva |
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Olga Alexandrovna Spessivtseva (also transliterated as Spesivtseva, Spessivtzeva, Spessiva) (Russian: Ольга Александровна Спесивцева) (18 July 1895 – 16 September 1991) was a Russian ballerina whose brilliant stage career spanned from 1913 to 1939....
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| x Agrippina Vaganova |
Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova (Russian: Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова) (July 6, 1879 - November 5, 1951) was an outstanding Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method - the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old...
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| x Ninette de Valois |
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Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE (6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet. She danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later settling in England. She is most...
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| x Anastasia Volochkova |
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Anastasia Volochkova (Russian: Анастасия Волочкова; born January 20, 1976) is a Russian prima ballerina.
Volochkova was born into a middle class family in Saint Petersburg. Her father was a table tennis champion and coach, and her mother was a tour...
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| x Miyako Yoshida |
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Miyako Yoshida (吉田都, born in 1965-) is a Japanese ballet dancer. She is a Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet as well as a Principal dancer in K-ballet, Japan.
Born and trained in Tokyo, she won the Prix de Lausanne in 1983. She joined Royal...
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| x Gamar Almaszadeh |
Gamar Hajiaga qizi Almaszadeh (Azeri: Qəmər Almaszadə) (10 March 1915, Baku – 7 April 2006, Baku) was an Azerbaijani ballerina and ballet instructor.
Gamar Almaszadeh (nicknamed Tamara) was born in Baku to a family of a shoemaker and a midwife,...
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| x Alexandra Ansanelli |
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Alexandra Ansanelli was a principal dancer at The Royal Ballet, London, and with the New York City Ballet, where she originated roles in Mauro Bigonzetti's Vespro, Christopher Wheeldon's Carousel (A Dance) and in Makin' Whoopee!, the second act of...
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| x Sonia Arova |
Sonia Arova (May 19, 1927 – February 4, 2001), born Sonia Errio, was a Bulgarian ballerina.
She was born in Sofia, and began her training in Paris. With the beginning of the Second World War, she barely escaped the Nazi advance through a reckless...
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| x Altynai Asylmuratova |
Altynai Asylmuratova (born 1961) is a former Soviet and Kazakhstani prima ballerina with the Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre and a guest artist all over the world. Asylmuratova was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakstan, and after graduation from the Vaganova...
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| x Silvia Azzoni |
Silvia Azzoni Born in 1973, in Turin. Italy. Graduated from Baletna Skola in Turin and Hamburg Ballet School, where her teachers were Dragica Zach, Marianne Kruuse, Ilse Wiedmann and Kevin Haigen.
In 1993 she joined Hamburg Ballet company, in 1996...
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| x Irina Baronova |
Irina Mikhailovna Baronova, FRAD (March 13, 1919 – June 28, 2008) was a Russian ballerina who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s. She created roles in Léonide...
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| x Giovanna Bassi |
Giovanna Bassi (1762–1834) was an Italian ballerina who spent the majority of her career in Sweden. She was the sister of the architect Carlo Francesco Bassi (1772–1840), who was active in Sweden and Finland.
Giovanna Bassi was born in Italy and...
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| x Bubusara Beyshenalieva |
Bubusara Beyshenalieva (Russian: Бубусара Бейшеналиева), (1926-1973), known simply as Bubusara in her native Kyrgyzstan, was the first great Kyrgyz ballerina. She studied at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in Leningrad under the legendary Russian...
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| x Stanislava Brezovar |
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Stanislava Brezovar (7 November 1937 – 18 December 2003), married name Kleiber, was a Slovenian ballerina. She was also known as Stanka Brezovar.
Born in Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia, she studied to be a Germanist, but her primary love was ballet. She...
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| x Giuseppina Bozzachi |
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Giuseppina Bozzacchi (23 November 1853 – 23 November 1870) was an Italian ballerina, noted for creating the role of Swanilda in Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia at the age of 16.
Bozzacchi had come to Paris to study with Mme Dominique. The choreographer...
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| x Ludmilla Chiriaeff |
Ludmilla Chiriaeff, CC, GOQ (January 10, 1924 - September 22, 1996) was a Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, and director.
Born in Riga, Latvia, she trained in Berlin with Alexandra Nicolaieva, a former prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet....
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| x Irina Dvorovenko |
Irina Dvorovenko is a classical ballet dancer. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. She began her ballet training at the age of 10 at the Kiev Ballet School. She joined the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kyiv in 1990 as a soloist, rising to the rank...
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| x Carla Fracci |
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Carla Fracci (born 20 August 1936 in Milan, Italy) is a famous ballet dancer and actress. Her career highlights include Nijinsky, Giselle (American Ballet Theatre), Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances: Erik Bruhn 1961-1967.
The Food and...
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| x Elizaveta Gerdt |
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Elizaveta Pavlovna Gerdt (Russian: Елизавета Павловна Гердт; 29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1891 – 1975) was a Russian dancer and teacher whose career links the Russian imperial and Soviet schools of classical dance.
A daughter of celebrated Paul...
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| x Yuriko Kajiya |
Yuriko Kajiya (加治屋百合子 Kajiya Yuriko, born in 1984) is a Japanese ballerina with American Ballet Theatre (ABT). She was promoted to soloist on 5 July 2007 after 5 years with the company.
Yuriko was born in Nagoya (Japan) and trained at Matsumoto...
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| x Maki Kawamura |
Maki Kawamura (川村真樹 Kawamura Maki, born in Iwate Prefecture) is a Japanese ballerina for New National Theatre, Tokyo
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| x Maria Kochetkova |
Maria Kochetkova(b. 1984 in Moscow), is a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet. She is a bronze medal Laureate of the 9th International Competition of ballet artists and choreographers in Moscow (2001), Winner of the Young Artists...
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| x Irina Kolesnikova |
Irina Kolesnikova is a Russian ballet dancer. Born in 1980, she graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1998, class of Elvira Korkorina, and after being rejected by the Kirov and Mikhailovsky Theatre, she joined the St. Petersburg Ballet...
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| x Maria Kowroski |
Maria Kowroski began studying ballet at the School of the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the the corps de ballet in 1995. Ms....
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| x Larissa Lezhnina |
Larisa Lezhnina (Russian: Лариса Лежнина) is a principal dancer with Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam. She was born on March 17, 1969 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. She graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in Leningrad in 1987 and...
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| x Lydia Lopokova |
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Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (born Lidia Vasilyevna Lopukhova) (October 21, 1892-June 8, 1981; Russian: Ли́дия Васи́льевна Лопухо́ва) was a famous Russian ballerina dancer during the early 20th century. She is known also as Lady Keynes, the wife...
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| x Yoko Morishita |
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Yoko Morishita (森下洋子 Morishita Yoko, born in Hiroshima December 7, 1948) is a Japanese ballerina for Matsuyama Ballet Company. She represented Japan as a prima ballerina.
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| x Anastasia Nabokina |
Anastasia Nabokina (Russian: Анастасия Павловна Набокина) is a Russian ballerina born on February 14, 1971 in Moscow, Russia.
In 1981 she entered the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. At the age of 17, she made her stage debut in a school...
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| x Bronislava Nijinska |
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Bronislava Nijinska (Polish: Bronisława Niżyńska; Russian: Бронислава Фоминична Нижинская, Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya; January 8, 1891 (old style 27 December 1890) - February 22, 1972)) was a Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher of...
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