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    Nikolai Gustavovich Legat (Russian: Никола́й Густа́вович Лега́т) (30 December 1869, in Moscow – 24 January 1937, in London) was a ballet dancer, choreographer...
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    from the noted teachers of the day—Christian Johansson, Pavel Gerdt, Nikolai Legat—and from Enrico Cecchetti, considered the greatest ballet virtuoso of...
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    the Vaganova method (created by Agrippina Vaganova) and the Legat Method (by Nikolai Legat). The Cecchetti method is named after Italian dancer Enrico...
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  • Nicolaeva-Legat, Russian prima ballerina Nikolai Legat (1869–1937), Russian ballet dancer Sergei Legat (1875–1905), Russian ballet dancer Thorsten Legat (born...
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    the scene with the Pas de deux éléctrique performed by Legnani and Nikolai Legat to a tremendous ovation from the audience. In spite of the criticisms...
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    brother of Nikolai Legat, he studied at the imperial ballet school with Pavel Gerdt, Christian Johansson, Lev Ivanov and his brother. Legat joined the...
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    1896) Caricature of Legnani as Odette in Swan Lake by the brothers Nikolai and Sergei Legat Legnani in the title role of Cinderella. St. Petersburg, 1893....
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    also trained by Yekaterina Vazem, Christian Johansson, Lev Ivanov, Nikolai Legat and Pavel Gerdt). Ballet did not come easily to Vaganova in her first...
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    Pavel Gerdt as Prince Coqueluche, Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara, Sergei Legat as the Nutcracker-Prince, and Timofey Stukolkin as Drosselmeyer. Unlike...
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    Tikhonova was trained in Paris by Russian dancers Olga Preobrajenska and Nikolai Legat. She made her debut at the age of fifteen with the Theatre Romantique...
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    Godunov Tamara Karsavina Ekaterina Kondaurova Ekaterina Krysanova Nikolai Legat Sergei Legat Olga Lepeshinskaya Larissa Lezhnina Maris Liepa Mikhail Lobukhin...
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    designed by Alexandre Benois and choreography by the brothers Sergei and Nikolai Legat. But differences between Diaghilev and the director of the Imperial...
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    Mathilde Kschessinska Basilio Sergei Sokolov Lev Ivanov Nikolai Legat Gamache Dmitri Kuznetsov Nikolai Goltz Pavel Gerdt The Street Dancer Olga Preobrajenska...
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  • established a helicopter company. Nikolai Paus has been a board member of the Norwegian Export Council and of Eckbos Legat. I 1998 he co-founded the real...
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  • class passed to his former student Nikolai Legat. Many of Russian ballets legendary dancers were once pupils of Legat's class of perfection including Njinsky...
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    original production) —e. Variation pour quatre danseurs (Messrs. Legat II, Kyaksht, Legat III & Gorsky) —f. Variation de Raymonde (Mlle. Legnani) —interpolation:...
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    An ebullient quartet, it was first performed by Sergei Legat, Georgi Kyasht, Nikolai Legat, and Alexander Gorsky. 1936. Jardin aux Lilas, choreography...
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  • first season winner of the Fox reality show So You Think You Can Dance. Nikolai Legat (1869–1937), dancer with the Russian Imperial Ballet from 1888 to 1914...
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    Tchaikovsky) Pas de Trois from The Fairy Doll (choreography after Sergei Legat and Nikolai Legat, music by Drigo) The Little Humpbacked Horse (Grand Ballabile from...
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  • 4 [O.S. October 22] 1895 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. Revival by Nikolai Legat (based on Petipa's original choreography) for the Imperial Ballet, with...
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    Fokine as the god Mercury in Le Réveil de Flore by the brothers Nikolai and Sergei Legat, circa 1903. Mikhail Fokine as the god Mercury in Le Réveil de...
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    1912. Principal Dancers - Tamara Karsavina (as the Tsar Maiden) and Nikolai Legat (as Ivanushka). Revival of Gorsky's 1912 production by Feodor Lopukhov...
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    Vazem and graduated in 1894. She later studied with Evgenia Sokolova, Nikolai Legat, Catarina Beretta and Enrico Cecchetti. She joined the ballet company...
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    prima ballerina. In London, she studied with Russian ballet master Nikolai Legat. Under the name of Nathalie Leslie she danced with Ida Rubinstein's...
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    performances the whole of the Imperial court was in attendance. In 1907, Nikolai Legat staged a revival of Les Saisons at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. This...
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    Petersburg, Russia to serve as conductor of the Serf orchestra of Prince Nikolai Yusupov, a post which Minkus occupied until 1855. That same year, Minkus...
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    as the Vaganova method after Agrippina Vaganova, and the Legat Method, after Nikolai Legat. The Cecchetti method was invented by Italian dancer Enrico...
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    the Hermitage Museum. 1900. Olga Preobrazhenskaya as Columbine and Nikolai Legat as Harlequin in their costumes for the Grand pas des alouettes of Act...
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    Anna Johansson, Pavel Gerdt, Platon Karsavin, Tamara Karsavina, Nikolai Legat, Sergei Legat, Olga Preobrajenska, Maria Gorshenkova [ru], Mathilde Kschessinska...
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    Ballet School, where he initially studied dance under Sergei Legat and his brother Nikolai. He studied mime under Pavel Gerdt; all three men were principal...
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