A ballet dancer is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet. They rely on years of extensive training...
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American ballet dancer to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and join the Bolshoi Ballet company. Despite staging many famous ballets, it struggled...
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Ballet dancer Ballet glossary Ballet pointe shoe Ballet-related lists Dance and health List of ballets by title Western stereotype of the male ballet...
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principal dancer (often shortened to principal) is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company. A...
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The Nutcracker (redirect from The nutcracker ballet)
late 1960s, The Nutcracker has been danced by many ballet companies, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of...
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Royal Ballet is the late Dame Margot Fonteyn. Ninette de Valois, an Irish-born dancer founded the Academy of Choreographic Art, in 1926, a dance school...
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to Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet". The New York Times. Retrieved May 29, 2022. Kourlas, Gia (February 26, 2023). "Four Dancers Promoted to Principal...
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accomplished dancer. In dance (particularly ballet), arabesque (French: [aʁabɛsk]; literally, "in Arabic fashion") is a body position in which a dancer stands...
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person. Within the dance world words like strong, proud, and in control were used to describe a good male ballet dancer. A good female dancer was described...
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York City Ballet dancers. This is a list of New York City Ballet soloists. The following is a list of the current members of the corps de ballet. Victor...
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Sir Anton Dolin (27 July 1904 – 25 November 1983) was an English ballet dancer and choreographer. Dolin was born in Slinfold in Sussex as Sydney Francis...
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American Ballet Theatre in 1977, where he danced as a principal dancer for nine years Jack Anderson (November 10, 2011). "Annabelle Lyon, Dancer With Balanchine...
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Borovansky Ballet, a touring repertory company founded in 1940 by the Czech dancer Edouard Borovansky. Borovansky had been a dancer in the touring ballet company...
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Michaela DePrince (redirect from Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer)
Sierra Leonean–American ballet dancer who danced with the Boston Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and the Dutch National Ballet. DePrince rose to fame...
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Russian ballet (Russian: Русский балет) (French: Ballet russe) is a form of ballet characteristic of or originating from Russia. Ballet had already dawned...
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engaged with choreographers and dancers from around the world to expand the ballet. Spohr was succeeded by RWB principal dancer Henny Jurriëns who was formerly...
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Ива́нович Пу́шкин; 7 September 1907 – 20 March 1970) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet master. His students include Askold Makarov, Nikita Dolgushin,...
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Ballet is a formalized dance form with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries. Ballet spread from Italy to France with...
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competition Folk dance in Estonia A contemporary dancer performs a stag split leap. Dance partnering – a male dancer assists a female dancer in performing...
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Valois, dancer, choreographer and director, founder of the Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and *Royal Ballet School Anton Dolin, dancer, choreographer...
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Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish Ballet, it is one of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain...
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also a dancer and they trained at the same schools. From a young age, he and his brother studied tap and ballet at the Jean Winkler School of Dance in Tooting...
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Polish ballet dancer and only titular "prima ballerina assoluta" in Warsaw Government Theatres Paul Christiano (1976–2015), American dancer and choreographer...
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extremely fierce. For a dancer to enter the Paris Opera Ballet, it is almost compulsory to be admitted to the Paris Opera Ballet School, to pass the annual...
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The Royal Danish Ballet (Danish: Den Kongelige Ballet) is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Danish Theatre in Kongens...
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"Ballet Dancer" is a song by German synth-pop duo the Twins, released as both a 7" and 12" single from their third studio album, A Wild Romance (1983)...
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alongside the king in many ballets until the king's retirement from dance in 1670. He moved from dancer for the court ballets to a composer of such music...
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Alexander Godunov (category American male ballet dancers)
28, 1949 – May 1995) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor. A member of the Bolshoi Ballet, he became the troupe's Premier danseur. In 1979...
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involved in dance. Eleonora Abbagnato - Italian ballet dancer Stella Abrera - Filipino-American ballet dancer Carlos Acosta - Cuban ballet dancer and artistic...
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was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and educator. He joined the New York City Ballet in 1949 and was named principal dancer in 1953, and throughout...
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