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George Balanchine
George Balanchine:
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I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina
I Dreamed
I Was a Ballerina
Anna Pavlova


Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky:
A Leap into Madness




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Ballet Dancers & Ballerinas ~

Anna Pavlova
Jules Perrot
Marius Petipa

Maya Plisetskaya
Alexander Pushkin

Ida Rubenstein
Jia Ruskaja


Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova, in Her Role of the Swan in 'The Dying Swan', 1910s
Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova, in Her Role of the Swan in 'The Dying Swan', 1910s,
Giclee Print

Anna Pavlova
b. 1-31-1881; St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 1-23-1931; The Netherlands

Anna Pavlova was a Russian ballet dancer best known for her delicate etheral look that contrasted with the then predominant Russian ideal of strong and muscular dancers, and her showpiece “The Dying Swan” danced to Camille Saint-Saëns' The Swan from Carnival of the Animals.

Because of her highly arched foot Pavlova developed a pointe shoe that served as the model for today's pointe shoe.


Jules Perrot and Carlotta Grisi doing La Polka, Giclee Print
Jules Perrot
with Carlotta Grisi,
Giclee Print

Jules Perrot
b. 8-18-1810; Lyon, France
d. 8-29-1892; France

Jules Perrot was a renowned 19th century danseur (male ballet dancer), choreographer, and Balletmaster of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet. Perrot also choregraphed the divertimento (amusement) Pas de Quatre that brought together the leading ballerinas of the time.

La Classe de Danse - Degas, Giclee Print
La Classe de Danse - Degas, Giclee Print






In 1874 artist Edgar Degas honored Jules Perrot in one of his dance painting by imagining the dance master commanding a practice session in the recently destroyed Paris Opera House.


Portrait of Marius Petipa in Ballet "Dancemania," 1837, Giclee Print
Portrait of Marius Petipa
in Ballet "Dancemania," 1837,
Giclee Print

Marius Petipa
b. 3-11-1818; Marseille, France
d. 7-14-1910; Crimea, Russia

Marius Petipa, a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer, is cited nearly unanimously to be the most influential balletmaster and choreographer that has ever lived.

See Ballets List for curriculum enrichment resources related to Petipa ballets such as Don Quixote (1869); La Bayadère (1877); Le Talisman (1889); The Sleeping Beauty (1890); The Nutcracker (1892), Raymonda (1898), Le Corsaire, Giselle, La Esmeralda, Coppélia, La Fille Mal Gardée (with Lev Ivanov), The Little Humpbacked Horse and Swan Lake (with Lev Ivanov).


Dancer Maya Plisetskaya Silhouette
Maya Plisetskaya
Silhouette

Maya Plisetskaya
b. 11-20-1925; Moscow, Russia

Maya Plisetskaya, considered on of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, was a member of the Bolshoi from 1943 till her 1990 retirement. Her father was executed during the Stalin purges, her mother imprisoned.

I, Maya Plisetskaya


Alexander Pushkin: Master Teacher of Dance
Alexander Pushkin: Master Teacher of Dance

(no commercially available poster)

Alexander Pushkin
b. 1907; Russia
d. 1970

Dancer Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin is legendary as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov's ballet teacher, as were nearly all the leading male dancers of the Kirov Ballet from the 1940s through the 1960s.


Ida Rubinstein as Zobeide in "Sheherezade," circa 1910, Giclee Print
Ida Rubinstein
as Zobeide in “Sheherezade,”
c. 1910,
Giclee Print

Ida Rubinstein
b. 10-5-1885; St Petersburg, Russia
d. 9-20-1960; France

Ballet dancer Ida Rubinstein was considered an icon of the late 19th and early 20th century Belle Epoque of European history.

She danced for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes in the title role of Cléopâtre (1909), and Zobéide in Scherezade with Nijinsky (1910). The ballets were choreographed by Michel Fokine, and designed by Leon Bakst.

Rubinstein was also a patron of the arts and commissioned Maurice Ravel to write the music for a ballet - the result was Boléro.


Portrait of Jia Ruskaja, Prima Ballerina of the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, Photographic Print
Jia Ruskaja,
Prima Ballerina of
the Teatro Alla Scala
in Milan,
Photographic Print

Jia Ruskaja (Evgenija Borisenko)
b. 6-1-1902; Crimea
d. 4-19-1970; Rome

Dancer and choreographer Evgenija Borisenko was known by her stage name Jia Ruskaja in Italy.


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