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    that do convey an accomplished female ballet dancer are prima ballerina and prima ballerina assoluta (the French word étoile is used in this sense at...
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  • title prima ballerina, the second highest title that can be awarded to a ballerina: prima ballerina assoluta being the first. "Prima ballerina literally...
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    Prima ballerina assoluta is a title awarded to the most notable of female ballet dancers. To be recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta is a rare honour...
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    Sergei Diaghilev List of African-American ballerinas List of dancers Prima ballerina assoluta List of prima ballerinas List of the main ballet masters of the...
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    would go on to be a leading ballerina with the Ballets Russes, the first Prima Ballerina of The Royal Ballet, a founder ballerina with American Ballet Theatre...
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    in color, and made of thin flexible copper. In the Royal Ballet, a prima ballerina for the apsara role is considered. Starting with Princess Norodom Buppha...
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    Anna Pavlova (category Prima ballerinas)
    12 February [O.S. 31 January] 1881 – 23 January 1931) was a Russian prima ballerina. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the...
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    dancing mouse who loves to dance and always dreams of becoming a famous prima ballerina. Angelina has the tendency to come off as rather hot-headed, but she...
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  • company Hanan Tork (born 1975), ballerina, Cairo Ballet Group, later film actress Nadia Nerina (1927–2008), prima ballerina who made her glittering career...
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  • agrees to mentor Félicie, who later learns that Odette was a former prima ballerina. Félicie finds her training very difficult, but with Camille's letter...
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    Maria Tallchief (category American prima ballerinas)
    24, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was a Plains Indian ballerina. She was America's first major prima ballerina and the first Osage Tribe member to hold the rank...
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    Pati Behrs (category Prima ballerinas)
    – July 4, 2004) was a Russian American prima ballerina and actress. Pati Behrs Eristoff was a prima ballerina and a grandniece of Leo Tolstoy. She is...
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  • Joy Womack (category American ballerinas)
    joined the Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theatre as prima ballerina. Womack founded the Project Prima, a supplement company that caters specifically to...
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  • company, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, which operates independently. The Prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet is the late Dame Margot Fonteyn. Ninette...
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    Natalia Makarova (category Prima ballerinas)
    Ната́лия Рома́новна Мака́рова, born 21 November 1940) is a Russian prima ballerina and choreographer. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that...
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    Margot Fonteyn (category Prima ballerina assolutas)
    (formerly the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company), eventually being appointed prima ballerina assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth II. Beginning ballet lessons...
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    Peter Fonseca. Virginia Johnson was a founding company member and prima ballerina of Dance Theatre of Harlem—known for being the "first Black classical...
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  • Maniya Barredo (category Filipino ballerinas)
    ballet dancer and instructor. She is best known as the first and only Prima ballerina of the Philippines, an honor that was declared in 1978. She performed...
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    drama school. Skarsgård’s film debut was in 1989 in the short film Prima Ballerina, where he played a ballet pupil. The same year, Skarsgård starred in...
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    Mathilde Kschessinska (category Prima ballerina assolutas)
    and graduated at the age of 18. In 1896, she obtained the rank of Prima ballerina of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Theatres. The maestro Marius Petipa...
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    Olga Smirnova (dancer) (category Russian prima ballerinas)
    is a Russian ballet dancer. Formerly a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, she is currently a prima ballerina with the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam...
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  • cheerful and happy-go-lucky mouseling who still dreams to become a prima ballerina. She is now 8 and a student at Camembert Academy. Her catchphrases...
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    philanthropist Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (1836–1886), Russian prima ballerina, wife of Marius Petipa and mother of Marie Petipa John Codman Ropes...
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  • Karen Kain (category Prima ballerinas)
    Broadcasting Corporation made a documentary about her, Karen Kain, Prima Ballerina. In 2002, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal...
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  • Enrica Soma (category American prima ballerinas)
    9, 1929 – January 29, 1969) was an American socialite, model, and prima ballerina. She was also the wife of director John Huston and mother of their...
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    Rowena Jackson (category Prima ballerinas)
    known as Chatfield; 24 March 1926 – 15 August 2024) was a New Zealand prima ballerina. Jackson was born in Invercargill on 24 March 1926 to William Ernest...
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    Anastasia Volochkova (category Russian prima ballerinas)
    Odette-Odile in Swan Lake at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1993. She was a prima ballerina and student at the same time, the first in the history of the Mariinsky...
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    Alessandra Ferri (category Prima ballerina assolutas)
    Alessandra Ferri OMRI (born 6 May 1963) is an Italian prima ballerina. She danced with the Royal Ballet (1980–1984), American Ballet Theatre (1985–2007)...
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    Norodom Buppha Devi (category Prima ballerinas)
    Ballet of Cambodia. At the age of 18, she was granted the title of prima ballerina. She then toured the world as the principal dancer of the Royal Ballet...
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    Alicia Markova (category Prima ballerina assolutas)
    Fonteyn, is one of only two English dancers to be recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta. Markova was a founder dancer of the Rambert Dance Company...
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