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| x Sergei Prokofiev |
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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев; Ukrainian: Сергій Сергійович Прокоф'єв) (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to...
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| x Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский Pëtr Il'íč Čajkóvskij [ˈpʲɵtr ɪlʲˈjitɕ tɕɪjˈkofskʲɪj] ( listen); 7 May 1840 [O.S. 25 April] – 6 November 1893 [O.S. 25 October]), often called Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (pronounced /ˈpiːtər...
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| x Igor Stravinsky |
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor' Fjodorovič Stravinskij) (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and...
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| x Teatro Massimo, Palermo |
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The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily. It was dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II. It is the biggest in Italy and one of the largest of Europe (the third after the...
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| x Romeo and Juliet |
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Romeo and Juliet (Op. 64) (Russian: Ромео и Джульетта) is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Music from the ballet was extracted by Prokofiev as three suites for orchestra and as a piano work.
Based on...
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| x Swan Lake |
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Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое Озеро, Lebedinoye Ozero) is a ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser was fashioned from Russian folk tales as well...
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| x The Sleeping Beauty |
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The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая Красавица, Spyashchaya Krasavitsa) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890. The music was by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (his Opus 66). The score was completed in 1889, and is the second of his...
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| x The Rite of Spring |
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The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French title, Le Sacre du Printemps (Russian: Весна священная, Vesna svyashchennaya) is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky,...
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| x Cinderella |
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Cinderella (Russian: Золушка, Zolushka) is a ballet, Op. 87, composed by Sergei Prokofiev. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. The piece was composed between...
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| x The Firebird |
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The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, Žar-ptica) is a 1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky and choreographed by Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a...
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| x Giselle |
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Giselle, ou Les Wilis is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by...
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| x Coppélia |
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Coppélia is a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter and music by Léo Delibes. It was based upon two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann (The...
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| x Spartacus |
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Spartacus, or Spartak, is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978). The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War, although the ballet's storyline takes considerable...
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| x Boléro |
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Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel. Originally composed as a ballet, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is considered Ravel's most famous musical composition. Before Boléro, Ravel had composed large scale ballets (such as...
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| x The Nutcracker |
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The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, Shchelkunchik), Op. 71, is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891–92. Alexandre Dumas père's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E....
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| x Don Quixote |
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Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. First...
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| x La Bayadère |
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La Bayadère (The Temple Dancer) (Russian: Баядерка - Bayaderka) is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by the Ballet Master Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. It was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the...
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| x La Source |
La Source is a ballet in three acts/four scenes with a score collaborated on by Léo Delibes and Ludwig Minkus (Minkus: Act I & Act III-Scene 2/Delibes: Act II & Act III-Scene 1). In Vienna it was called Naïla, die Quellenfee (Naïla, the Waternymph)....
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| x Franca Florio, regina di Palermo |
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Franca Florio, regina di Palermo is a narrative ballet in two acts composed in 2007, with music by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero and choreography by Luciano Cannito. The scenario depicts the story of Donna Franca, a famous Sicilian aristocrat...
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| x Les Ballets de Monte Carlo |
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Les Ballets de Monte Carlo is a classical ballet company established in 1985 by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hanover in accordance with the wishes of her mother, Princess Grace of Monaco. It is the official, national company of the...
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| x Alicia Alonso |
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Alicia Alonso Martínez (born Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez Hoya on December 21, 1920) is the Cuban prima ballerina and choreographer. Her company became the Ballet de Cuba in 1955. She is most famous for her portrayals of Giselle...
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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 Le jeune homme et la mort |
Le Jeune Homme et La Mort is a ballet by Roland Petit was made in 1946 to Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582, (omitting the fugue) with a one act libretto by Jean Cocteau. It tells the story of a Young Man driven to suicide by his faithless...
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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 Scuola di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala |
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La Scala Theatre Ballet School (Italian: Scuola di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala) is one of the leading classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of La Scala Theatre Ballet, an international ballet company based at La Scala in...
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| x Catarina or La Fille du Bandit |
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Catarina or La Fille du Bandit is a ballet in 3 Acts-4 Scenes, with choreography by Jules Perrot, and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by Jules Perrot, based on an incident in the life of the Italian painter Salvatore Rosa.
First presented by the...
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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 John Taras |
See also category: Ballets by John Taras
John Taras (1919 – 2004) was a prominent American balletmaster and choreographer. Born on the Lower East Side of New York City to Ukrainian parents, he was sent at age 16 to study ballet with Michel Fokine,...
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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 27, 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 Stephen Baynes |
Stephen Baynes (born 1956 in Adelaide, South Australia) has been Resident Choreographer with The Australian Ballet since 1995. He trained with Joanne Priest and graduated from The Australian Ballet School in 1975. He has danced with the Australian...
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| x Australian Ballet School |
The Australian Ballet School was founded in 1964 as the primary training facility for The Australian Ballet by Dame Margaret Scott. It is part of the Australian Ballet Centre, which is located in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, Southbank in Melbourne,...
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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 in...
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| x Natalia Makarova |
Nataliya Romanovna Makarova (Russian: Наталья Романовна Макарова, born November 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 Galina Ulanova |
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Galina Sergeyevna Ulánova (Russian: Галина Сергеевна Уланова; 7 January 1910 [O.S. 26 December 1909] – 21 March 1998) is frequently cited as being one of the greatest 20th Century ballerinas. Her flat in Moscow is designated a national museum, and...
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