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Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

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The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet is a school of classical ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [1]

147 relations: A Fairy Tale, Agrippina Vaganova, Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky, Alexander Katsapov, Alexander Shiryaev, Alina Somova, Alisa Sodoleva, Alla Osipenko, Alla Sizova, Altynai Asylmuratova, Anastasia Volochkova, Andrej Uspenski, Andrey Ermakov, Anna Johansson, Anna Pavlova, Anna Plisetskaya, Anna Podlesnaya, Arabesque (ballet position), Artem Yachmennikov, Ballet Manila, Ballets Russes, Bella Ratchinskaia, Benjamin Feliksdal, Boris Fenster, Bronislava Nijinska, Bubusara Beyshenalieva, Cesare Pugni, Character dance, Christian Johansson, Daria Pavlenko, Diana Vishneva, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Ekaterina Shchelkanova, Elena Evseeva, Elena Glurjidze, Elena Smirnova, Elizaveta Gerdt, Evgenia Obraztsova, Farukh Ruzimatov, Felia Doubrovska, Galina Mezentseva, George Balanchine, Grishko, Guy Mankowski, Helmi Puur, History of ballet, Igor Belsky, Imperial Academy, Imperial Theatres, Index of dance articles, ..., Irina Kolesnikova, Irina Kolpakova, Irma Nioradze, Jessica Mezey, Ji-Young Kim, Jorma Elo, Jutta Deutschland, Kasyan Goleizovsky, Keenan Kampa, Konstantin Sergeyev, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, La fille mal gardée, La Perle (ballet), La source (Saint-Léon), Leonid Lavrovsky, Leonid Yakobson, Letters from Yelena, List of female dancers, List of higher education and academic institutions in Saint Petersburg, List of Russian ballet dancers, Ludmila Semenyaka, Lydia Lopokova, Mansur Kamaletdinov, Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa, Mariinsky Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre, Marina Semyonova, Marius Petipa, Michel Fokine, Michelangelo Canale, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Lobukhin, Milko Šparemblek, Nadine Wulffius, Natalia Makarova, Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Nina Timofeeva, Ninel Kurgapkina, Oleg Vinogradov, Olesya Novikova, Olga Esina, Olga Smirnova (ballet), Olga Spessivtseva, Outline of Saint Petersburg, Peggy Willis-Aarnio, Perm State Choreographic College, Pierre Vladimiroff, Prix Benois de la Danse, Prix de Lausanne, Renata Shakirova, Riccardo Drigo, Rineke Dijkstra, Rudolf Kharatyan, Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet, Saint Petersburg, Sarkis Djanbazian, School of American Ballet, Senia Russakoff, Serafina Astafieva, Sergei Vikharev, Sergeyev Collection, Society and culture in Saint Petersburg, Sofya Skya, St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, Stella Voskovetskaya, Svetlana Zakharova (dancer), Tamara Geva, Tamara Karsavina, The Benevolent Cupid, The Enchanted Forest (ballet), The Harlem Tulip, The Magic Flute (ballet), The Nutcracker, Timeline of Saint Petersburg, Tolstoy House, Ulyana Lopatkina, Vaganova method, Valentin Elizariev, Varvara P. Mey, Vaslav Nijinsky, Veronika Part, Viacheslav Samodurov, Viktoria Tereshkina, Vladimir Shklyarov, War and Peace (film series), Yasmine Naghdi, Yevgeny Mironov (actor), Yulia Makhalina, Yulia Slonimskaya Sazonova, Yuri Soloviev, Yuri Zhukov (dancer), Yury Grigorovich, Zaira Cosico, 1738 in music, 2 Rossi Street. Expand index (97 more) »

A Fairy Tale

A Fairy Tale (AKA A Magic Tale) - Fantastic ballet in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by (?) Richter.

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Agrippina Vaganova

Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova (Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова; 26 June 1879 – 5 November 1951) was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method – the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School (today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet) under the Premier Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s.

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Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky

Alexander Gorsky (August 6, 1871 – 1924), a Russian ballet choreographer and a contemporary of Marius Petipa, is known for restaging Petipa’s classical ballets such as Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and The Nutcracker.

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Alexander Katsapov

Alexander Katsapov (born 27 April 1975 in St. Petersburg) is a Russian award–winning principal dancer of the National Theatre Ballet of Prague, Czech Republic.

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Alexander Shiryaev

Alexander Viktorovich Shiryaev (Александр Викторович Ширяев; — 25 April 1941) was a Russian ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer, founder of character dance in Russian ballet who served at the Mariinsky Theatre.

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Alina Somova

Alina Somova (Али́на Алексе́евна Со́мова; born 22 October 1985) is a Russian ballet dancer and principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet of Saint Petersburg.

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Alisa Sodoleva

Alisa Sodoleva (Аліса Содолева) is a Belarusian dancer who was born in Minsk and was a graduate of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2010.

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Alla Osipenko

Alla Yevgenyevna Osipenko (Russian:Алла Евгеньевна Осипенко, born 16 June 1932 in Leningrad) is a retired Soviet ballerina.

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Alla Sizova

Alla Sizova (22 September 1939 – 23 November 2014) was a Russian ballet dancer, best known for her work with the Kirov Ballet.

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Altynai Asylmuratova

Altynai Abduahimovna Asylmuratova (Алтынай Абдуахимовна Асылмуратова; born 1 January 1961) is artistic director of the ballet company at Astana Opera, and a former prima ballerina with the Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre and a guest artist all over the world.

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Anastasia Volochkova

Anastasia Volochkova (Анастасия Волочкова; born 20 January 1976)NEWSru, newsru.com, 20 January 2006.

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Andrej Uspenski

Andrej Uspenski is a Russian ballet dancer and photographer.

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Andrey Ermakov

Andrey Ermakov (Андрей Андреевич Ермаков), (born May 27, 1987) is a Russian ballet dancer, a winner of 'Soul of Dance' award (Russian 'Ballet' magazine, 2013), who performs as a soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet).

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Anna Johansson

Anna Christianovna Johansson (Анна Христиановна Иогансон) (1860–1917), was a Russian ballerina who danced with the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet.

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Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlovna (Matveyevna) Pavlova (Анна Павловна (Матвеевна) Павлова; – January 23, 1931) was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries.

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Anna Plisetskaya

Anna Plisetskaya (Анна Александровна Плисецкая, born August 18, 1971) is a Russian ballerina, actress and producer.

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Anna Podlesnaya

Anna Podesnaya (born 13 August 1970 in Leningrad) is a Russian ballerina.

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Arabesque (ballet position)

Arabesque (literally, "in Arabic fashion") in dance, particularly ballet, is a body position in which a dancer stands on one leg – the supporting leg – with the other leg – the working leg – turned out and extended behind the body, with both legs held straight.

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Artem Yachmennikov

Yachmennikov, Artem Nikolayevich (born 25 February 1983) is a ballet artist, soloist and premier at leading theaters, including the Bolshoi Theatre and Mariinsky Theatre.

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Ballet Manila

Ballet Manila is a classical ballet institution and dance company in the Philippines.

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Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.

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Bella Ratchinskaia

Bella Ratchinskaia (born in Vorkuta (Russia) on 22.11.1953) is a classical ballet choreographer and maÎtre de ballet.

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Benjamin Feliksdal

Benjamin Feliksdal (born 22 January 1940, in Den Helder) is a Dutch ballet dancer.

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Boris Fenster

Boris Fenster (17 April 1916 – 29 December 1960) was a Russian dancer, choreographer and ballet master.

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Bronislava Nijinska

Bronislava Nijinska (Bronisława Niżyńska; Бронисла́ва Фоми́нична Нижи́нская, Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya, Браніслава Ніжынская); (– February 21, 1972) was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer.

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Bubusara Beyshenalieva

Bübüsara Beyşenalieva (Бюбюсара Бейшеналиева; Бүбүсара Бейшеналиева; 1926 – 1973), known simply as Bübüsara in her native Kyrgyzstan, was the first great Kyrgyz ballerina.

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Cesare Pugni

Cesare Pugni (Цезарь Пуни) (31 May 1802&ndash) born in Genoa, was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist.

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Character dance

Character dance is a specific subdivision of classical dance.

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Christian Johansson

The Imperial Ballet's great teacher Christian Johansson --> Pehr Christian Johansson (May 20, 1817 – December 12, 1903) was a teacher, choreographer and coaching balletmaster for the Russian Imperial Ballet.

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Daria Pavlenko

Daria Pavlenko, Да́рья Павле́нко, (born 19 November 1978) is a Russian ballet dancer, currently one of the stars of the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg.

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Diana Vishneva

Diana Viktorovna Vishneva (also trans. Vishnyova Диа́на Ви́кторовна Вишнёва; born July 13, 1976) is a Russian ballet dancer who performs as a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet).

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Ekaterina Kondaurova

Ekaterina Kondaurova, Екатерина Кондаурова, (born August 20, 1982) is a Russian ballet dancer, currently one of the stars of the Mariinsky Ballet from Saint Petersburg.

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Ekaterina Shchelkanova

Ekaterina Nikolaievna Shchelkanova (Екатерина Николаевна Щелканова, born May 2, 1970) is a Russian singer, actress, and dancer from Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia).

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Elena Evseeva

Elena Evseeva (Елена Евсeева) (born 13 December 1982, Izhevsk) is a Russian ballerina, soloist of the Mikhailovsky (2001—2008) and the Mariinsky (since 2008) theaters.

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Elena Glurjidze

Elena Glurjidze is a senior principal ballerina at the English National Ballet.

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Elena Smirnova

Elena Smirnova (Елена Александровна Смирнова, 6 May 1888 (O.S.)/18 May 1888 (N. S.) – 15 January 1934) was the last prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater in the Imperial period of Russia.

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Elizaveta Gerdt

Elizaveta Pavlovna Gerdt (– 6 November 1975) was a Russian dancer and teacher whose career links the Russian imperial and Soviet schools of classical dance.

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Evgenia Obraztsova

Evgenia Obraztsova (Евгения Образцова), born on 18 January 1984 in St. Petersburg, is a Russian ballerina.

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Farukh Ruzimatov

Farukh Sadullayevich Ruzimatov (Фару́х Садулла́евич Рузима́тов; born 26 June 1963) is a Russian ballet dancer.

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Felia Doubrovska

Felia Doubrovska (Фелия Дубровская (real name Фелицата Леонтьевна Длужневская); born as Felizata Dlouzhnevska in St Petersburg, February 13, 1896 – d. Manhattan, September 18, 1981) was a Russian dancer and teacher.

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Galina Mezentseva

Galina Sergeyevna Mezentseva (Галина Серге́евна Мéзенцева, born 8 November 1952, Stavropol) is a Russian ballerina, with a career as professional classic dancer from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.

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George Balanchine

George Balanchine (born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; January 22, 1904April 30, 1983) was a choreographer.

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Grishko

Grishko Ltd. (Гришко) is a privately held manufacturer of dance shoes, wear and accessories.

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Guy Mankowski

Guy Mankowski (born 6 January 1983) is an English writer.

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Helmi Puur

Helmi Puur (20 December 1933 – 6 July 2014) was an Estonian prima ballerina, dance master and coach.

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History of ballet

Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries.

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Igor Belsky

Igor Dmitrievich Belsky (Игорь Дмитриевич Бельский; 28 March 1925, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 3 July 1999, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.

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Imperial Academy

Imperial Academy may refer to.

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Imperial Theatres

Imperial Theatres of Russian Empire (Императорские театры Российской империи) was a theatrical organization financed by the Imperial exchequer and managed by a single directorate headed with a director; was pertain to the Ministry of the Imperial Court from 1742.

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Index of dance articles

This is an alphabetical index of articles related to dance.

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Irina Kolesnikova

Irina Kolesnikova (born 1980) is a Russian ballet dancer.

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Irina Kolpakova

Irina Alexandrovna Kolpakova (Ирина Александровна Колпакова) (born in Leningrad on 22 May 1933) is a Russian ballerina.

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Irma Nioradze

Irma Nioradze in 2011 Irma Nioradze (ირმა ნიორაძე, Ирма Ниорадзе; born June 15, 1969 in Tbilisi, Georgia), is a Georgian ballerina and Principal Dancer of the Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet.

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Jessica Mezey

Jessica Mezey is an American prima ballerina.

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Ji-Young Kim

Ji-Young Kim (born July 26, 1978) is a South Korean prima ballerina and is currently a principal dancer with the Korea National Ballet (KNB) in Seoul, South Korea.

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Jorma Elo

Jorma Elo is a contemporary choreographer.

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Jutta Deutschland

Jutta Angelika Deutschland (born 20 March 1958) is a German ballet dancer and choreographer.

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Kasyan Goleizovsky

Kasyan Yaroslavich Goleizovsky (5 March 1892 – 4 May 1970) was a Russian choreographer and dancer.

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Keenan Kampa

Keenan Kampa (born February 3, 1989) is an American classical ballet dancer and actress.

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Konstantin Sergeyev

Konstantin Mikhailovich Sergeyev (Константин Михайлович Сергеев); b. March 5, 1910 (February 20, Old Style) - April 1, 1992) was a Russian danseur, artistic director and choreographer for the Kirov Theatre. His teachers at Leningrad State Choreographic Institute: Mariya Kojukhova, Vladimir Ponomaryov, Viktor Semyonov (Marina Semyonova’s first husband). He was married to prima ballerina Feya Balabina (first wife) and Natalia Dudinskaya (second wife), the theatre's prima ballerina too. Galina Ulanova was his partner between 1930 and 1940. Sergeyev and Ulanova were the first to dance Romeo and Juliet in Sergey Prokofiev's ballet of the same name. Sergeyev was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1957 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1991. He was the recipient of four Stalin Prizes.

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Kutafin Moscow State Law University

Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL) (Московский государственный юридический университет имени О. Е. Кутафина.) is a coeducational and public research university located in Moscow, Russia.

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La fille mal gardée

La Fille mal gardée (English: The Wayward Daughter, literal translation: "The Poorly Guarded Girl" and also known as The Girl Who Needed Watching) is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère.

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La Perle (ballet)

La Perle (en. The Pearl) (ru. «Жемчужина» or «Прелестная жемчужина»; Zhemchuzhina or Prelestnaya Zhemchuzhina) (en. Pearl or Pretty Pearl) is a ballet-divertissement in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo.

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La source (Saint-Léon)

La source (The Spring) is a ballet in three acts/four scenes with a score composed by Léo Delibes and Ludwig Minkus (Minkus: Act I & Act III-Scene 2/Delibes: Act II & Act III-Scene 1) which was premiered in 1866 with choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon.

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Leonid Lavrovsky

Leonid Mikhailovich Lavrovsky (real name - Ivanov) (1905–1967) was a Russian ballet choreographer, most famous for choreographing the first full version of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

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Leonid Yakobson

Leonid Veniaminovich Yakobson (Леонид Вениаминович Якобсон; January 2 (15), 1904 — October 17, 1975), whose last name is sometimes spelled Jacobson, was a ballet choreographer from Russia.

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Letters from Yelena

Letters from Yelena (2012) was the second ‘breakthrough’ novel by English writer Guy Mankowski.

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List of female dancers

The following is a list of female dancers by nationality — notable women who are well known for their work in the field of dance.

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List of higher education and academic institutions in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg has long been a leading center of science and education in Russia and houses the following institutions.

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List of Russian ballet dancers

This is a list of ballet dancers from the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation, including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities.

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Ludmila Semenyaka

Ludmila Semenyaka (Людмила Семеняка, born 16 January 1952) is a Soviet ballerina, born in Leningrad.

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Lydia Lopokova

Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (born Lidia Vasilyevna Lopukhova, Ли́дия Васи́льевна Лопухо́ва; 21 October 1892 – 8 June 1981) was a Russian ballerina famous during the early 20th century.

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Mansur Kamaletdinov

Mansur Kamaletdinov (Russian Мансур Фатхинурович Камалетдинов) (7 January 1926 – 19 April 2012) was a Russian-born ballet dancer, teacher, ballet master and choreographer of classical ballet and classical character dance.

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Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa

Mariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova-Petipa (27 February 1836 – 16 March 1882) was prima ballerina to the St.

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Mariinsky Ballet

The Mariinsky Ballet is the resident classical ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Mariinsky Theatre

The Mariinsky Theatre (Мариинский театр, Mariinskiy Teatr, also spelled Maryinsky or Mariyinsky) is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Marina Semyonova

Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova (Марина Тимофеевна Семёнова, – 9 June 2010) was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina.

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Marius Petipa

Marius Ivanovich Petipa (Russian: Ма́риус Ива́нович Петипа́), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818) was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer.

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Michel Fokine

Michael Fokine (a French transliteration Michel Fokine; English transliteration Mikhail Fokin; Михаи́л Миха́йлович Фо́кин, Mikhaíl Mikháylovich Fokín) (– 22 August 1942) was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.

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Michelangelo Canale

Michelangelo Canale (born November 17, 1971) is an American dancer, teacher, choreographer and artistic director of ballet.

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Mikhail Baryshnikov

Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (p; Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 27, 1948), nicknamed "Misha" (Russian diminutive of the name "Mikhail"), is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor.

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Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (Михаи́л Моисе́евич Ботви́нник,; – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.

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Mikhail Lobukhin

Mikhail Lobukhin (Михаил Лобухин) is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Milko Šparemblek

Milko Šparemblek (born December 1, 1928) is a Slovenian-born Croatian dancer, choreographer, stage director and film director.

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Nadine Wulffius

Madame Nadine Wulffius (1899–1992) was a ballet dancer and choreographer and the founder of her own Ballet School in Maddington, Western Australia.

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Natalia Makarova

Natalia Romanovna Makarova (Ната́лия Рома́новна Мака́рова, born 21 November 1940) is a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer.

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Nikolay Tsiskaridze

Nikolay Tsiskaridze PAR (Николай Максимович Цискаридзе; ნიკოლოზ ცისკარიძე, Nik'oloz Cisk'aridze) is a Russian ballet dancer, who was a member of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years (1992-2013).

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Nina Timofeeva

Nina Vladimirovna Timofeeva (Нина Владимировна Тимофеева; 11 June 1935 – 3 November 2014) was a Russian ballet dancer.

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Ninel Kurgapkina

Ninel Alexandrovna Kurgapkina (Нинель Александровна Кургапкина; 13 February 1929 in Leningrad – 8 May 2009, near St. Petersburg) was a Russian dance teacher and former prima ballerina for the Kirov Ballet with over 50 years stage experience.

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Oleg Vinogradov

Oleg Mikhailovich Vinogradov (Олег Михайлович Виноградов) was a Soviet dancer, choreographer and ballet director.

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Olesya Novikova

Olesya Novikova (Олеся Новикова) is a Russian ballet dancer who has been first soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre.

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Olga Esina

Olga Esina (in Russian Ольга Есина) is a Russian ballerina who was educated at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Olga Smirnova (ballet)

Olga Smirnova (born 1991) is a Russian ballet dancer who is currently a prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Olga Spessivtseva

Olga Alexandrovna Spessivtseva (Ольга Алекса́ндровна Спеси́вцева (16 September 1991) was a Russian ballerina whose stage career spanned from 1913 to 1939. She was one of the finest prima ballerinas of the twentieth century. She had the excellent classical technique, immaculate style and scenic spirituality which are considered the embodiment of the romantic ballerina.

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Outline of Saint Petersburg

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg – second-largest city in Russia.

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Peggy Willis-Aarnio

Peggy Willis-Aarnio (January 12, 1948 – January 9, 2016) was an American choreographer, historian, author and teacher of classical ballet.

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Perm State Choreographic College

Perm State Choreographic College (Пермский государственный хореографический колледж, commonly known as the Perm Ballet School) is an internationally renowned, professional ballet school, based in Perm, Russia.

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Pierre Vladimiroff

Pierre Vladimiroff, or Pyotr Nikolayevich Vladimirov (Пётр Николаевич Владимиров; born February 13, 1893 in Gatchina, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire – died November 25, 1970 in New York City, United States), was a Russian dancer and teacher.

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Prix Benois de la Danse

The Benois de la Danse is one of the most prestigious ballet competitions.

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Prix de Lausanne

The Prix de Lausanne is an international dance competition held annually in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Renata Shakirova

Renata Shakirova (Russian: Рената Шакирова) is a ballet dancer who is currently a second soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet.

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Riccardo Drigo

Riccardo Eugenio Drigo (ru. Риккардо Эудженьо Дриго), (30 June 18461 October 1930) was an Italian composer of ballet music and Italian opera, a theatrical conductor, and a pianist.

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Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer.

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Rudolf Kharatyan

Rudolf Kharatian (Ռուդոլֆ Խառատյան, born April 1, 1947, in Yerevan) is an Armenian ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and painter.

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Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (Рудольф Хәмит улы Нуриев Rudolf Xämid ulı Nuriyev, p; 17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet ballet and contemporary dancer and choreographer.

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Russian ballet

Russian ballet (Ballet russe) is a form of ballet characteristic of or originating from Russia.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Sarkis Djanbazian

Sarkis Djanbazian (Սարգիս Ջանբազյան; سرکیس جانبازیان), also written as Sarkis Janbazian, (15 January 1913 in Armavir – 11 December 1963 in Tehran) was a Russian-born Iranian-Armenian artist.

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School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet (SAB) is an American classical ballet school and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

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Senia Russakoff

Senia Russakoff Alexander (September 26, 1891 - December 29, 1981) was a Russian dancer and teacher.

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Serafina Astafieva

Serafina Astafieva (Russian: Серафима Александровна Астафьева; 1876 – 13 September 1934) was a Russian dancer and ballet teacher.

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Sergei Vikharev

Sergei Vikharev (Russian: Сергей Геннадьевич Вихарев) (15 February 1962 – 2 June 2017) was a Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and historian.

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Sergeyev Collection

The Sergeyev Collection is a collection of choreographic notation, music, designs for décor and costumes, theatre programs, photos and other materials that document the repertory of the Imperial Ballet (precursor of the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet) of St. Petersburg, Russia at the turn of the 20th century.

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Society and culture in Saint Petersburg

This article is about the society and culture in Saint Petersburg.

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Sofya Skya

Sofya Skya (born Sofya Andreyevna Arzhakovskaya in 1987) is a Russian ballerina and actress/directress.

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St Petersburg Ballet Theatre

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Stella Voskovetskaya

Stella Voskovetskaya is a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor.

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Svetlana Zakharova (dancer)

Svetlana Yuryevna Zakharova (Світлана Юріївна Захарова, Светлана Юрьевна Захарова) is a prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet and an étoile of the La Scala Theatre Ballet.

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Tamara Geva

Tamara Geva (Тамара Гева, Жева, or Жева; 17 March 1907 – 9 December 1997) was a Russian-American actress, ballet dancer and choreographer.

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Tamara Karsavina

Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (Тама́ра Плато́новна Карса́вина, 10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev.

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The Benevolent Cupid

The Benevolent Cupid (L'Amour bienfaiteur) is a ballet in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni, first presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School on the stage of the school's theatre, on March 6/18 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1868, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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The Enchanted Forest (ballet)

La Forêt enchantée (en. The Enchanted Forest) (ru. «Очарованный лес», Ocharovanyi les) is a ballet fantastique in one act, originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov to the music of Riccardo Drigo, first presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the school's theatre on.

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The Harlem Tulip

La Tulipe de Haarlem (ru: Гарлемский тюльпан) is a fantastic ballet in three acts and four scenes, with choreography by Lev Ivanov and music by Baron Boris Fitinhoff-Schell, first presented by the Imperial Ballet on at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Emma Bessone (as Emma), Pavel Gerdt (as Peters), and Alfred Bekefy (as Andreas).

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The Magic Flute (ballet)

La flûte magique (en. The Magic Flute) (ru. «Волшебная флейта», Volshebnaya Fleita) is a ballet comique in one act, originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov to the music of Riccardo Drigo.

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The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик, Балет-феерия / Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya; Casse-Noisette, ballet-féerie) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71).

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Timeline of Saint Petersburg

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Tolstoy House

The Tolstoy House is a large and well-known apartment building in St. Petersburg, located at 15-17 Rubenstein Street and 54 Fontanka Embankment.

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Ulyana Lopatkina

Ulyana Vyacheslavovna Lopatkina (Ульяна Вячеславовна Лопаткина; born 23 October 1973) is a Russian prima ballerina who performed with the Mariinsky Theatre from 1991-2017.

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Vaganova method

The Vaganova method is a ballet technique and training system devised by the Russian dancer and pedagogue Agrippina Vaganova (1879–1951).

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Valentin Elizariev

Valentin Nikolayevich Elizariev (Валенти́н Никола́евич Елиза́рьев; born 1947) is a Belarusian Soviet balletmaster, choreographer, and pedagogue.

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Varvara P. Mey

Varvara Pavlovna Mey (Russian: Варвара Павловна Мей, 18 January 1912 in Saint Petersburg – 1995) was a prima ballerina, ballet instructor and author.

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Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; Ва́цлав Фоми́ч Нижи́нский;; Wacław Niżyński; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.

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Veronika Part

Veronika Part (born 21 February 1978 in St Petersburg) is a Russian ballet dancer.

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Viacheslav Samodurov

Viacheslav Samodurov (born 1974) is a former Principal dancer of the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden in London.

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Viktoria Tereshkina

Viktoria Tereshkina (Виктория Терёшкина; born 31 May 1983) is a Russian ballet dancer, currently one of the stars of the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg.

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Vladimir Shklyarov

Vladimir Shklyarov (Владимир Шкляров, born 9 February 1985) is a principal dancer of Mariinsky Ballet and a guest principal with the Bayerische Staatsballett and the Royal Ballet.

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War and Peace (film series)

War and Peace (Война и мир, trans. Voyna i mir) is a 1966–67 Soviet war drama film written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and a film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace.

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Yasmine Naghdi

Yasmine Naghdi (born 25 March 1992) is a Principal ballerina (Etoile. Fr) of The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London.

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Yevgeny Mironov (actor)

Yevgeny Vitalevich Mironov (Russian: Евгений Витальевич Миронов; born 29 November 1966) is a Russian film and stage actor, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation (1996), People's Artist of Russia (2004), State Prize of the Russian Federation laureate - 1995, 2010.

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Yulia Makhalina

Yulia Victorovna Makhalina (Юлия Викторовна Махалина), also Yulia, (born 23 June 1968) is a Russian ballet dancer.

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Yulia Slonimskaya Sazonova

Yulia Slonimskaya Sazonova (Юлия Леонидовна Слонимская Сазонова, 19 September 1884 – 18 November 1957) was a Russian-born writer, theater critic and historian, actress, and puppeteer.

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Yuri Soloviev

Yuri Vladimirovich Soloviev (Юрий Соловьёв) (1940–1977), PAU, was a premier danseur of the Kirov Ballet, born in Leningrad, Russia.

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Yuri Zhukov (dancer)

Yuri Zhukov (born 1964), is a Russian ballet dancer.

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Yury Grigorovich

Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (Ю́рий Никола́евич Григоро́вич; born 2 January 1927 in Leningrad), HSL, PAU, is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years.

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Zaira Cosico

Zaira Cosico is a ballerina from the Philippines.

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1738 in music

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2 Rossi Street

2 Architect Rossi Street (2 Улица Зодчего Росси) is a building in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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