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List of Russian ballet dancers

Index 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. [1]

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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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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Aleksey Yermolayev

Aleksey Nikolayevich Yermolayev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Ермола́ев; 12 December 1975) was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher.

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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 Godunov

Alexander Borisovich Godunov (Russian: Александр Борисович Годунов; November 28, 1949 – May 18, 1995) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor, whose defection caused a diplomatic incident between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Alexandra Danilova

Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova (Russian: Александра Дионисьевна Данилова; November 20, 1903 – July 13, 1997) was a Russian-born prima ballerina, who became an American citizen.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Alicia Alonso

Alicia Alonso (born Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad Martínez del Hoyo; 21 December 1920) is a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer whose company became the Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1955.

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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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Alla Shelest

Alla Jakovlevna Shelest (26 February 1919 – 7 December 1998) was a Russian ballerina, choreographer and dance director, "a star of the Kirov Ballet during the Forties and Fifties".

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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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Ambra Vallo

Ambra Vallo is an Italian classical ballet dancer.

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American Ballet Theatre

American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City.

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Anastasia Abramova

Anastasia Abramova (17 June 190226 June 1985) was a Russian ballerina of the Moscow ballet school.

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Anastasia Nabokina

Anastasia Nabokina (Анастасия Павловна Набокина) is a Russian ballerina born on 14 February 1971 in Moscow, Russia.

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Anastasia Volochkova

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

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Andris Liepa

Andris Liepa (Russian: Андрис Лиепа) (Moscow, USSR, 6 January 1962) is a ballet dancer, director and producer.

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Anna Antonicheva

Anna Antonicheva (Анна Анатольевна Антоничева) is a ballerina and People's Artist of Russia, who was a principal dancer of Bolshoi 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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Artem Ovcharenko

Artem Ovcharenko (Артём Вячеславович Овчаренко, born 31 December 1986) is a Russian ballet dancer and principal with the Bolshoi Theatre and guest artist with the Hamburg Ballet.

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Artistic director

An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, who handles the organization's artistic direction.

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Asaf Messerer

Asaf Mikhailovich Messerer (Russian: Асаф Михайлович Мессерер, November 19, 1903 - March 7, 1992) was a Lithuanian Jewish and Soviet ballet dancer and ballet teacher.

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Askold Makarov

Askold Anatolievich Makarov (Аско́льд Анато́льевич Мака́ров; 3 May 1925 – 25 December 2000) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet professor, leading soloist at the Kirov Ballet during the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Avdotia Istomina

Evdokia or (informally) Avdotia Ilyinichna Istomina (1799–1848) was the most celebrated Imperial Russian ballerina of the 19th century.

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Baby Ballerinas

Baby ballerinas is a term invented by the English writer and dance critic Arnold Haskell to describe three young dancers of Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in the early 1930s: Irina Baronova (1919–2008), Tamara Toumanova (1919–1996), and Tatiana Riabouchinska (1917–2000).

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Ballet dancer

A ballet dancer (ballerina fem., ballerino masc.) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet.

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Ballet master

Ballet Master (also Balletmaster, Ballet Mistress, Premier Maître de ballet or Premier Maître de ballet en Chef) is the term used for an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company.

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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

The company Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (note the plural) was formed in 1932 after the death of Diaghilev and the demise of Ballets Russes.

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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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Bayerisches Staatsballett

The ballet company Bayerisches Staatsballett (Bavarian State Ballet) in Munich, Germany, was founded in 1988 by Konstanze Vernon as an independent company.

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Bolshoi Ballet

The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russian Federation.

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Bolshoi Theatre

The Bolshoi Theatre (p) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and opera performances.

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Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg

The Saint Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre (The Big Stone Theatre of Saint Petersburg, Большой Каменный Театр) was a theatre in Saint Petersburg.

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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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Bullfighter

A bullfighter is a performer in the sport of bullfighting.

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Carla Fracci

Carla Fracci (born 20 August 1936, Milan) is an Italian ballet dancer and actress.

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Catherine Chislova

Catherine Gavrilovna Chislova (Russian: Екатерина Гавриловна Числова) (21 September 1846 – 13 December 1889) was a Russian ballerina.

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Choreography

Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.

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Cinderella

Cinderella (Cenerentola, Cendrillon, Aschenputtel), or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward.

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Cinderella (Prokofiev)

Cinderella (Золушка, Zolushka; French: Cendrillon) Op.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Daniil Simkin

Daniil Simkin (born 12 October 1987 in Novosibirsk) is a Russian ballet dancer and principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.

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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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Days of Glory (1944 film)

Days of Glory is a 1944 American film which tells the story of a group of Soviet guerrillas fighting back during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.

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Deep in My Heart (1954 film)

Deep in My Heart is a 1954 MGM biographical musical film about the life of operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, who wrote the music for The Student Prince, The Desert Song, and The New Moon, among others.

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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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Dmitry Belogolovtsev

Dmitry Vladimirovich Belogolovtsev (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Белоголовцев) (born 26 November 1973) is a Russian ballet dancer, and former principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Dmitry Gudanov

Dmitry Konstantinovich Gudanov (Дмитрий Константинович Гуданов) is an People's Artist of Russia and principal dancer of Bolshoi Ballet.

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Don Quixote (ballet)

Don Quixote is a ballet in four acts and eight scenes, based on episodes taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Dutch National Ballet

The Dutch National Ballet (Het Nationale Ballet) is the official and largest ballet company in the Netherlands.

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Ekaterina Krysanova

Ekaterina Krysanova (Екатерина Валерьевна Крысанова) is a Russian principal dancer of Bolshoi Ballet.

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Ekaterina Maximova

Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova (Екатери́на Серге́евна Макси́мова; 1 February 1939 – 28 April 2009) was a Soviet and Russian ballerina of international renown.

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Elena Andreianova

Elena Ivanovna Andreïanova, sometimes spelt Yelena Andreyanova (Russian Елена Ивановна Андреянова), 13 July 1819 St. Petersburg - 28 October 1857 Paris, was a Russian ballerina.

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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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Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli, KBE Grande Ufficiale OMRI (born 12 February 1923) is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television.

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Fyodor Lopukhov

Fyodor Vasilievich Lopukhov (Russian: Фёдор Васи́льевич Лопухо́в; 20 October 1886, Saint Petersburg – 28 January 1973, Leningrad) was a choreographer in Soviet Russia.

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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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Galina Samsova

Galina Samsova (born 17 March 1937) is a Russian retired ballet dancer and company director.

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Galina Ulanova

Galína Sergéyevna Ulánova (Гали́на Серге́евна Ула́нова, 21 March 1998) was a Russian ballet dancer.

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George Balanchine

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

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Georgian National Opera Theater

The Georgian National Opera and Ballet Theater of Tbilisi (თბილისის ოპერისა და ბალეტის სახელმწიფო აკადემიური თეატრი), formerly known as the Tiflis Imperial Theater, is an opera house situated on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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Georgians

The Georgians or Kartvelians (tr) are a nation and Caucasian ethnic group native to Georgia.

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Giselle

Giselle (French: Giselle, ou les Wilis) is a romantic ballet in two acts.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer.

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Ida Rubinstein

Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (И́да Льво́вна Рубинште́йн; – 20 September 1960) was a Russian dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure.

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Irina Baronova

Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD (13 March 1919 – 28 June 2008) was a Russian ballerina and actress who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s.

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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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Ivan Vasiliev

Ivan Vladimirovitch Vasiliev is a Russian ballet dancer.

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Jewels (ballet)

Jewels is a three-act ballet created for the New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine.

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Kenneth MacMillan

Sir Kenneth MacMillan (11 December 192929 October 1992) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer who was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977, and its principal choreographer from 1977 until his death.

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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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Krasnodar

Krasnodar (p) is a city and the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Kuban River, approximately northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

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L'éventail de Jeanne

L'éventail de Jeanne (Jean's Fan) is a children's ballet choreographed in 1927 by Alice Bourgat and Yvonne Franck.

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La Bayadère

La Bayadère (en. The Temple Dancer) (ru. «Баядерка», Bayaderka) is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus.

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La Scala

La Scala (abbreviation in Italian language for the official name Teatro alla Scala) is an opera house in Milan, Italy.

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La traviata

La traviata (The Fallen Woman)Meadows, p. 582 is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

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Larissa Lezhnina

Larisa Lezhnina (Лариса Лежнина) is a principal dancer with Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam.

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Latvian National Opera

The Latvian National Opera (LNO, Latvijas Nacionālā opera), Riga, is the national opera of Latvia.

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Léonide Massine

Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (Леони́д Фёдорович Мя́син), better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine (15 March 1979), was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer.

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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (ballet)

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme refers to two different ballets by George Balanchine set to Richard Strauss's Concert Suite (1924),Kisselgoff, Anna.

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Le Corsaire

Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a libretto originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges loosely based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron.

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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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Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc.

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Lev Ivanov

Lev Ivanovich Ivanov (Лев Ива́нович Ива́нов; 2 March 1834, Moscow – 24 December 1901, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer and later, Second Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet.

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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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List of Russian composers

An alphabetical list of significant composers who were born in Russia or worked there for a significant time.

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List of Russian opera singers

This a list of opera singers from Russian Federation, Soviet Union and Russian Empire including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities.

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Liudmila Titova (ballerina)

Liudmila Titova (Людмила Титова) is a principal prima ballet dancer.

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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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Lyubov Yegorova (ballerina)

Lubov Yegorova, Princess Nikita Troubetska (8 August 1880 – 18 August 1972) was a Russian ballerina who danced with the Imperial Ballet and the Ballets Russes.

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Manon

Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

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Maria Alexandrova

Maria Alexandrova (Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Алекса́ндрова) is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, People’s Artist of Russia.

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Maria Shirinkina

Maria Shirinkina (Russian: Мария Ширинкина, born 18 April 1987) is a principal ballerina of the Mariinsky Ballet and the Bayerisches Staatsballett.

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Marianna Ryzhkina

Marianna Ryzhkina (Марианна Альбертовна Рыжкина) is a Merited Artist of the Russian Federation and principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Marie Petipa

Marie Mariusovna Petipa (Мари́я Ма́риусовна Петипа́; 17 (29) October 1857, St. Petersburg – 16 January 1930, Paris) was a noted Russian ballerina.

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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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Mathilde Kschessinska

Mathilda-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinskaya (Matylda Maria Krzesińska, Матильда Феликсовна Кшесинская; 6 December 1971; also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya after her marriage) was a Russian ballerina from a family of Polish origin.

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Maya Plisetskaya

Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Ма́йя Миха́йловна Плисе́цкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress, who held in post-Soviet times Spanish and Lithuanian citizenship.

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Māris Liepa

Māris Rūdolfs Liepa (27 July 1936, Riga – 26 March 1989, Moscow) was a Soviet Latvian ballet dancer.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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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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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 Lavrovsky

Mikhail Lavrovsky is a Russian former principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Mikhailovsky Theatre

The Mikhailovsky Theatre (Миха́йловский теа́тр) is one of Russia's oldest opera and ballet houses.

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Moscow State Academy of Choreography

The Moscow State Academy of Choreography (Московская государственная академия хореографии, commonly known as The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of ballet in the world, located in Moscow, Russia. It is the affiliate school of the Bolshoi Ballet. The Bolshoi Ballet receives the majority of its dancers from the Academy, as do most other Moscow ballet companies. Numerous choreographers, instructors and graduates of the academy have become renowned in Russian ballet and internationally, including Olga Lepeshinskaya, Raisa Struchkova, Natalia Bessmertnova, Ekaterina Maximova, Maya Plisetskaya, Nikolai Fadeyechev, Vladimir Vasiliev, Mikhail Lavronsky, Nikolay Tsiskaridze, to be bestowed a People's Artist of the USSR, "prima ballerina assoluta" and "premier dancer", the ultimate title for a ballet performer of the Soviet Union.

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Nadezhda Gracheva

Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Gracheva (Надежда Александровна Грачёва; born 21 December 1969) is a Russian ballerina and ballet teacher who has danced with the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Nadezhda Pavlova

Nadezhda Pavlova (born May 15, 1956) is a Russian Chuvash ballerina of the late 20th century, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the Chuvashia, professor.

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Natalia Bessmertnova

Natalia Igorevna Bessmertnova (Russian: Наталья Игоревна Бессмертнова; –) was a Soviet prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet and a People's Artist of the USSR (1976).

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Natalia Dudinskaya

Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya (in Kharkiv – 29 January 2003 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian prima ballerina who dominated the Kirov Ballet from the 1930s through the 1950s.

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Natalia Osipova

Natalia Petrovna Osipova (Ната́лья Петро́вна О́сипова) (born) is a Russian ballerina, currently performing as a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.

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New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.

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Nijinsky (film)

Nijinsky is a 1980 American biographical film directed by Herbert Ross.

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Nikolai Fadeyechev

Nikolai Fadeyechev (Николай Борисович Фадеечев) is a Russian ballet dancer and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR.

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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 Ananiashvili

Nina Ananiashvili (born: Nino Ananiashvili, ნინო ანანიაშვილი; born March 19, 1963) is a Georgian ballerina and artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia.

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Nina Sorokina

Nina Sorokina (Нина Ивановна Сорокина) (13 May 1942 – 8 October 2011) was a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet and a 1987 People's Artist of the USSR recipient.

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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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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 Lepeshinskaya (dancer)

Olga Vasiliyevna Lepeshinskaya (Ольга Васильевна Лепешинская; article in Krugosvet encyclopedia – December 20, 2008) was a Soviet ballerina.

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Olga Preobrajenska

Olga Iosifovna Preobrajenska born Preobrazhenskaya (О́льга Ио́сифовна Преображе́нская; – 27 December 1962) was a Russian ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet and a ballet instructor.

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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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Paris Opera

The Paris Opera (French) is the primary opera company of France.

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Paris Opera Ballet

The Paris Opera Ballet (French: "Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris") is an integral part of the Paris Opera and the oldest national ballet company.

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Pas de Quatre

Grand Pas de Quatre is a ballet divertissement choreographed by Jules Perrot in 1845, on the suggestion of Benjamin Lumley, Director at Her Majesty's Theatre, to music composed by Cesare Pugni.

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Pavel Gerdt

Pavel Andreyevich Gerdt (Па́вел Андре́евич Ге́рдт), also known as Paul Gerdt (near Saint Petersburg, Russia, 22 November 1844 – Vamaloki, Finland, 12 August 1917), was the Premier Danseur Noble of the Imperial Ballet, the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, and the Mariinsky Theatre for 56 years, making his debut in 1860, and retiring in 1916.

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Pedagogy

Pedagogy is the discipline that deals with the theory and practice of teaching and how these influence student learning.

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People's Artist of Russia

People's Artist of the Russian Federation (Народный артист Российской Федерации, Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an honorary and the highest title awarded to citizens of the Russian Federation, all outstanding in the performing arts, whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). It succeeded both the all-Soviet Union "People's Artist of the USSR" award (Народный артист СССР), and more directly the local republic's "People's Artist of the RSFSR" award (Народный артист РСФСР), after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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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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Prima ballerina assoluta

Prima ballerina assoluta is a title awarded to the most notable of female ballet dancers.

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Principal dancer

A principal dancer (often shortened to principal) is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

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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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Raisa Struchkova

Raisa Stepanovna Struchkova (Раиса Степановна Стручкова) (5 October 19252 May 2005) was a Russian dancer and People's Artist of the USSR.

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Raymonda

Raymonda (Раймонда) is a ballet in three acts, four scenes with an apotheosis, choreographed by Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his opus 57.

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Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)

Romeo and Juliet (Ромео и Джульетта), Op.

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Rostislav Zakharov

Rostislav Vladimirovich Zakharov (Ростислав Владимирович Захаров; 1907–1984) was a Russian choreographer, ballet dancer and opera director.

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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 Academy of Theatre Arts

The Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS (Российский институт театрального искусства — ГИТИС) was founded on 22 September 1878 as the Shestakovsky Music School, became the Musico-Dramatic School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society in 1883, and was elevated to the status of a conservatory in 1886.

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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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Russian culture

Russian culture has a long history.

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Russians

Russians (русские, russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. The majority of Russians inhabit the nation state of Russia, while notable minorities exist in other former Soviet states such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine and the Baltic states. A large Russian diaspora also exists all over the world, with notable numbers in the United States, Germany, Israel, and Canada. Russians are the most numerous ethnic group in Europe. The Russians share many cultural traits with their fellow East Slavic counterparts, specifically Belarusians and Ukrainians. They are predominantly Orthodox Christians by religion. The Russian language is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and also spoken as a secondary language in many former Soviet states.

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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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Serge Lifar

Serge Lifar (Сергій Михайлович Лифар, Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar; Серге́й Миха́йлович Лифа́рь, Sergey Mikhaylovich Lifar) (Kiev, Russian Empire)15 December 1986, Lausanne, Switzerland) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Not only a dancer, Lifar was also a choreographer, director, writer, theoretician about dance, and collector. As ballet master of the Paris Opera from 1930 to 1944, and from 1947 to 1958, he devoted himself to the restoration of the technical level of the Paris Opera Ballet, returning it to its place as one of the best companies in the world.

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Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavɫovʲɪtɕ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

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Sergei Filin

Sergei Yurevitch Filin (Серге́й Ю́рьевич Фи́лин; born October 27, 1970) is a Russian ballet dancer and the former Ballet Director of the Bolshoi Theater from 2011 through 2016.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

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Sofia Golovkina

Sofia Nikolaevna Golovkina (alternate, Sophia; Russian, Головкина, Софья Николаевна; 13 October 1915 - 17 February 2004) was a Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.

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Spartacus (ballet)

Spartacus («Спартак», Spartak) is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978).

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Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre

The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (Московский академический Музыкальный театр имени народных артистов К. С. Станиславского и Вл.) is a music theatre in Moscow.

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Stella Voskovetskaya

Stella Voskovetskaya is a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor.

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Sulamith Messerer

Sulamith Mikhailovna Messerer, OBE (Сулами́фь Миха́йловна Мессере́р, August 27, 1908, MoscowJune 3, 2004, London) was a Russian ballerina and choreographer who laid the foundations for the classical ballet in Japan.

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Svetlana Adyrkhaeva

Svetlana Adyrkhaeva (born May 12, 1938) (italic) is an Ossetian and Soviet ballerina who was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.

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Svetlana Lunkina

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Lunkina (Светлана Александровна Лунькина; born 29 July 1979) is a Russian ballerina who is a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.

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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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Swan Lake

Swan Lake (Лебединое озеро Lebedinoye ozero), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76.

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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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Tamara Toumanova

Tamara Toumanova (Тамара Туманова თამარა თუმანოვა, Թամար Թումանեան; 2 March 1919 – 29 May 1996) was a Russian-born American prima ballerina and actress.

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Tatiana Riabouchinska

Tatiana Mikhailovna Riabouchinska (Татья́на Миха́йловна Рябуши́нская, Tatiana Mikhailovna Ryabushinskaya; 23 May 191724 August 2000) was a Russian American prima ballerina and teacher.

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The Golden Age (Shostakovich)

The Golden Age or The Age of Gold (Золотой век, Zolotoi vek), Op.

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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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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder.

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The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)

The Sleeping Beauty (Спящая красавица / Spyashchaya krasavitsa) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890.

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The Tale of the Stone Flower (Prokofiev)

The Tale of the Stone Flower, Op.

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Theatre director

A theatre director or stage director is an instructor in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production (a play, an opera, a musical, or a devised piece of work) by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production.

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Theatrical producer

A theatrical producer is a person who oversees all aspects of mounting a theatre production.

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Theodore Kosloff

Theodore Kosloff (Фёдор Михайлович Козлов; Fyodor Mikhailovich Kozlov; January 22, 1882 – November 22, 1956) was a Russian-born ballet dancer, choreographer, and film and stage actor.

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Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain is a 1966 American political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.

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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 Academy of Russian Ballet

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

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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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Vakhtang Chabukiani

Vakhtang Mikheilis dze Chabukiani (ვახტანგ ჭაბუკიანი) (February 27, 1910 (julian calendar) / 12/03/1910 (Gregorian calendar) – April 5, 1992), HSL, PAU, was a Georgian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher highly regarded in his native country as well as abroad.

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Valery Panov

Valery Matveevich Panov (Валерий Матвеевич Панов; born 12 March 1938) is an Israeli dancer and choreographer.

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Vasily Tikhomirov

Vasiliy Dmitriyevich Tikhomirov (1876–1956) was a dancer (from 1895) and a choreographer (from 1913) with the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow, Russia.

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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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Vera Karalli

Vera Alexeyevna Karalli (Вера Алексеевна Каралли; 27 July 1889 – 16 November 1972) was a Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and silent film actress during the early years of the 20th century.

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Vienna State Ballet

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_ballet_dancers

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