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Galina Ulanova
Galina Ulanova , 1910-98, Russian ballerina, b. St. Petersburg. Ulanova made her debut at the Kirov Ballet (1928), where she danced until 1944. That year she became prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, with which she first appeared in 1935, and she received numerous awards from the Soviet... Read more |
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Dame Margot Fonteyn
Dame Margot Fonteyn , 1919-91, English ballerina. Fonteyn was for many years prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet . Her original name was Margaret Hookham. In 1934 she joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet School, and in the same year she made her debut as a soloist. She became prima ballerina... Read more |
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Anna Matveyevna Pavlova
Anna Matveyevna Pavlova , 1881-1931, Russian ballerina. In 1892 she entered the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg. She made her debut in 1899 at the Maryinsky Theatre, but it was only after tours to Scandinavia (1907) and to Berlin and Vienna (1908) that she gained fame. In Paris, Pavlova... Read more |
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Maria Tallchief
M ARIAT ALLCHIEF Born: January 24, 1925 Fairfax, Oklahoma Native American dancer and choreographer Maria Tallchief is a world-renowned ballerina and one of the premiere (first-ranking) American ballerinas of all time. She was the first American... Read more |
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Virginia Johnson
Virginia Johnson 1950– Dancer and choreographer At a Glance… Joined Revolutionary Troupe Became Troupe’s Leading Ballerina Danced Around the World Sources Virginia Johnson is the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s emotive prima ballerina. She has been with this historic and major... Read more |
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Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev , 1938-93, Russian ballet dancer, b. near Irkutsk, Siberian USSR (now Russia). Nureyev studied in Ufa and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and in 1958 he became a soloist with the Kirov Ballet . In 1961 he defected from the Soviet Union while on tour in Paris. The leading classical... Read more |
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Dame Alicia Markova
Dame Alicia Markova , 1910-2004, English ballerina. Her original name was Lilian Alicia Marks. Markova joined Diaghilev 's Ballet Russe in 1924 and, in 1931, the Vic-Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet ), becoming its first prima ballerina in 1933. In 1935 she formed a company with Anton Dolin .... Read more |
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Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell Suzanne Farrell (neé Roberta Sue Ficker; born 1945) was a versatile classical ballerina who performed with Balanchine and the Ballet of the Twentieth Century. During her almost 30-year career she performed 75 roles in 70 ballets. Roberta Sue Ficker, who later selected... Read more |
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Dimitri Tiomkin
TIOMKIN, Dimitri Composer. Nationality:American. Born:St. Petersburg, Russia, 10 May 1899; emigrated to the United States, 1925; naturalized citizen, 1937. Education:Attended St. Petersburg Conservatory and St. Petersburg University; studied with Glazunov... Read more |
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Darcy
Darcy ♀, ♂ Transferred use of the English and Irish surname, originally a Norman baronial name (d'Arcy) borne by a family who came from Arcy in northern France. The surname was well established in north central England from the Middle Ages onwards, and various gentry families used it... Read more |
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Ulanova, Galina
Ulanova, Galina (1910–98) Russian ballerina. In 1944, she became the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet. Her...Romeo and Juliet. In 1962, Ulanova retired and became a coach for the new generation of Bolshoi ... |
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Galina Ulanova. (former Russian prima ballerina dies at age 88)(Obituary)
...remarkable number of Russians who demonstrably...murder. Miss Ulanova does not appear...Bolshoi, where Galina Ulanova, the prima ballerina, was performing...was enough that Galina Ulanova was among ... |
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Russian Ballerina Galina Ulanova Dies at 88
Galina Ulanova, 88, one of the great ballerinas of the 20th century...Soviet Union's top ballerina, died March 21 at...learned of the death of Galina Sergeevna Ulanova with great sorrow...been a legend of ... |
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Famous Russian Ballerina Galina Ulanova Dies
Outstanding Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova died at age of 89 in the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow on Saturday morning after a long severe disease, the Russian press reported. |
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GALINA ULANOVA, RUSSIAN BALLET LEGEND, DEAD AT 88
...1998 MOSCOW (AP) Galina Ulanova, one of the greatest Russian ballerinas of modern times...She was 88. Ulanova died at Moscow...Yeltsin called Ulanova a symbol of the...became a prima ballerina with the ... |
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Russian ballet legend dead at 88--Galina Ulanova
...MOSCOW (AP) -- Galina Ulanova, one of the greatest Russian ballerinas of modern times...She was 88. Ulanova died at Moscow...Yeltsin called Ulanova "a symbol of the...became a prima ballerina with the ... |
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Galina Ulanova 1910-98.(Obituary)
...1998, the great Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova died in a Moscow...Vaganova. In 1928 Ulanova was accepted into...with the name of Galina Ulanova as are...the day of the ballerina's ... |
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Galina Ulanova
...legendary Soviet ballerina The great prima ballerina Galina Ulanova bends her body near...on her student, Ulanova gestures with tender...Ulanova epitomizes the Russian ideal of a strong...revealed in A Day ... |
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Russia celebrates centennial of ballet legend Ulanova's birth
...centennial of ballet legend Ulanova's birth MOSCOW, Jan. 8...anniversary of the birth of legendary Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova. At her tomb in the Novodevichy...Sergeyevich, a long-time fan of Ulanova. Born on Jan. 8, ... |
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Russia mourns ballet legend Galina Ulanova
...MOSCOW (AP) _ Russians paid their last...modern times, Galina Ulanova, who died over...Theater, where Ulanova danced and taught...cemetery, where Ulanova was buried alongside...ballerinas, great ballerinas, ... |
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Remembering Galina Ulanova.(Column)
...the greatest ballerina of the twentieth...As far as ballerinas are concerned...Fonteyn and Galina Ulanova. Fonteyn did...the greatest ballerinas of this century...world dance. Ulanova, best remembered...Petersburg ... |
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