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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    American Ballet Theater Principal Dancer". CriticalDance.com. Retrieved February 16, 2012. promoted to principal in 1982 "Susan Jaffe Named Ballet Mistress...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Since the late 1960s, it has been danced by countless ballet companies, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of...
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  • ensure an unbiased selection of dancers for the new ballet company was to hire an outsider. They chose British dancer and choreographer Celia Franca,...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Principal dancer Soloist Ballet historian Ballet master Choreographer Dance critic Dance historian Dance notator Dance scholar Dance therapist Dancer Backup...
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  • Joy Womack (category 21st-century American ballet dancers)
    Joy Annabelle Womack is an American ballet dancer. She is the first American woman to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s main training program with...
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    Emmy Award winning choreographer and dancer James Starbuck was a principal dancer with the San Francisco Opera Ballet from 1935-1938; and left the company...
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    the air. Pointe technique is the part of ballet technique that concerns pointe work, in which a ballet dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully...
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  • 3, 1925 – July 27, 2013) was an American dancer, educator, and co-founder of the New York School of Ballet along with his wife Barbara Fallis. He is...
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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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  • "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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    Mikhail Baryshnikov (category American Ballet Theatre dancers)
    American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s. He subsequently became a noted dance director...
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