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    Svetlana Lunkina (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
    the Bolshoi premiere of Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée. Later, she worked extensively with Roland Petit, who gave her the roles of Liza in La Dame...
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    Anastasia Volochkova (category Russian prima ballerinas)
    (17 September 2003). "Bolshoi Decides It's Over Before 'Fat' Lady Dances". New York Times. Retrieved 18 May 2019. "'Big ballerina' damages rejected". BBC...
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    Ekaterina Maximova (category Russian prima ballerinas)
    and Russian ballerina of the second part of the 20th century who was internationally recognised. She was a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre for...
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    (born Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez del Hoyo; 21 December 1920 – 17 October 2019) was a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer...
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    Don Quixote (ballet) (category Ballets premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre)
    Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and first presented by Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet on 26 December [O.S. 14 December] 1869. Petipa and Minkus revised...
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    ballet repertory. Don Quixote was mounted for Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, with the famous ballerina Anna Sobeshchanskaya in the role of Kitri. The composer...
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  • Martha Graham Dance Company Nadezhda Gracheva (born 1969), prima ballerina, Bolshoi Ballet Layal Abboud (born 1982), concert dancer Bandana Nepal (born...
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    Tatiana. Klauss originally aspired to be a ballerina dancer after taking lessons, dreaming of performing in the Bolshoi Theatre. One year before her graduation...
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    Moscow Art Ballet, established in 1929 by Victorina Krieger, the ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre. She was Artistic Director and one of the principal dancers...
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    Loipa Araújo (category Cuban ballerinas)
    the position of prima ballerina, becoming a muse for Roland Petit. Araújo was a guest performer with the Béjart Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Bulgarian National...
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    Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Ballerina (documentary) "Bolshoi Theatre •". bolshoi.ru. Retrieved 2 December 2023. John O'Mahony (18...
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    David Hallberg (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
    Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director to join as either a guest artist or principal. His decision to join was made, in part, to dance with ballerina Natalia...
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  • character dancers: unlike ballerinas female character dancers do not dance en pointe. The largest ballet company in the world is the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow,...
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    House, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, La Scala Theatre, Teatro San Carlo...
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    resignation from the Kirov in June 1934, a new agreement was signed with the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on the understanding that Piotrovsky would remain involved...
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    Alexandra Balashova (category Russian ballerinas)
    in Moscow. She was educated at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School. Balashova was a principal dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre starting in 1905. She often...
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  • Luciana Savignano (category Italian prima ballerinas)
    Savignano was born in Milan and trained at the Ballet School of La Scala and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. In 1968 she was chosen by Mario Pistoni as...
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  • Yen Han (dancer) (category Chinese ballerinas)
    a principal soloist of Ballett Zürich. In addition to her career as a ballerina, she serves as artistic director and choreographer for her own ballet...
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    Petipa as a concert piece for himself and the ballerina Amalia Ferraris. First performed at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of Saint Petersburg on 24...
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    was born into an artistic family; both of his parents performed at the Bolshoi Theatre: his mother Ekaterina Ksenophontovna Shiryaeva was a ballet dancer...
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  • Pacific) and screenwriter. Tamara Milashkina, 89, Russian operatic soprano (Bolshoi Theatre). Ignacy Nowak, 74, Polish chess player. Conrad Palmisano, 75,...
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  • major ballet companies around the world including La Scala Theatre Ballet in Milan and the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. He has been awarded several prestigious...
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  • businesswoman and political consort. Marina Kondratyeva, 90, Russian ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet). Jacques Lafaye, 94, French historian. Rafael Montalvo, 81...
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    Francesco Ventriglia (category Bolshoi Theatre)
    which is a multimedia collaboration for the prima ballerina and six principal dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet. Additionally, his works included Immemoria...
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    the Royal Ballet; Ethan Stiefel of ABT; and Nikolay Tsiskaridze of the Bolshoi Ballet. which premiered, at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in...
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    Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Luna Park Arena (Buenos Aires), Bolshoi Theater (Moscow), GEBA Arena (Buenos Aires) and Mandalay Bay Arena (Las...
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    Faust ballets (category Ballets premiered at the La Scala Theatre)
    Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, using the revised Pugni score. In 1852 Paul Taglioni, brother of Maria Taglioni (the first ballerina to dance...
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  • DB Irina Konstantinovna Arkhipova (born 1925), Russian soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre MPC · 4424 4425 Bilk 1967 UQ German city district Düsseldorf-Bilk...
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    then the Bolshoi Ballet's principal ballerina. In 1983 the stage director Peter Brook produced an adaptation of Bizet's opera known as La Tragedie de...
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  • Vienna Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila, November 27(Old Style) at Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg Franz Paul Lachner – Catharina Cornaro, Op.71...
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