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George Balanchine
George Balanchine:
American Ballet Master


The Ballet Book, Darcy Bussell
The Ballet Book ~, Darcy Bussell


Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov:
Dance Genius


Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina




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Ballet & Ballerinas Dance Posters & Prints “S...-Z...-”
for performance, language & visual arts, music, social studies classrooms, home schoolers.


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Moira Shearer
Olga Spesivtseva
Naomi Solomon
Maria Taglioni

Maria Tallchief
Tamara Toumanova
Galina Ulanova

Agrippina Vaganova
Ninette de Valois
Vera Zorina

Naomi Solomon Art Print
Naomi Solomon
Art Print


Moira Shearer, Photo
Moira Shearer,
Photo

Moira Shearer
b. 1-17-1926; Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
d. 1-31-2006; Oxford, England

Actress and ballet dancer Moira Shearer is best remembered for her role in the ballet themed movie The Red Shoes.


Olga Spesivtseva, Giclee Print
Olga Spesivtseva,
Giclee Print

Olga Spesivtseva
b. 7-18-1895; Rostov-on-Don, Russia
d. 9-16-1991; Tolstoy Farm, Rockland Co, NY

Ballet dancer Olga Spesivtseva was a classical ballerina whose stage career lasted from 1913-1939. She danced in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1916 tour of the United States, partnered with Nijinski.

Spesivtseva suffered from depression - she was institutionalized from 1943 to 1963, living out her life in a Russian community with the help of friends.


Maria Taglioni, Italian Ballerina, in "La Sylphide, Souvenir D'Adieu," circa 1832, Giclee Print
Maria Taglioni in
"La Sylphide,
c. 1832,
Giclee Print

Maria Taglioni
b. 4-23-1804; Stockholm, Sweden
d. 4-24-1884; Marseilles

Maria Taglioni's father (and teacher) Filippo Taglioni created the ballet La Sylphide to showcase her talent. It was the first ballet where the ballerina danced en pointe for the entirety of the work.


Maria Tallchief in the Nutcracker Ballet, Photographic Print
Maria Tallchief in
the Nutcracker Ballet,
Photographic Print

Maria Tallchief
b. 1-24-1925; Fairfax, OK
d. 4-11-2013; Chicago, IL

Maria Tallchief, whose father was a chief of the Osage tribe, studied ballet with Bronislava Nijinska, the sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. She danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the New York City Ballet. Tallchief was briefly married to George Balanchine and originated the Sugarplum Fairy in his version of The Nutcracker.

Native American posters
The Art of Maria Tallchief, DVD


Dancer Tamara Toumanova, and Actor Danny Kaye Dancing Together, Photographic Print
Dancer Tamara Toumanova, and Actor Danny Kaye,
Photographic Print

Tamara Toumanova
née Tumanishvili
b. 3-2-1919; Tyumen, Siberia
d. 5-29-1996; Santa Monica, CA

Tamara Toumanova was born as her mother searched for her imprisoned father after the Russian Revolution. When the family was reunited they escaped to Shanghai, then were in a Cairo, Egypt refugee camp, finally settling in Paris where Tamara had piano and ballet lessons with Olga Preobrajenska. She was known as one of the “Baby Ballerinas” (along with Baronova and Riabouchinska) and appeared in Hollywood movies.


Soviet Ballerina Galina Ulanova Dancing in Title Roll of Ballet "Giselle" at the Bolshoi Theater, Photographic Print
Galina Ulanova
Photographic Print

Galina Ulanova
b. 1-7-1910; St Petersburg, Russia
d. 3-21-1998

Ulanova was prima ballerina assoluta of the Soviet Union for 16 years.


Ballerinas at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, Photographic Print
Ballerinas at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, Photographic Print

Agrippina Vaganova
b. 7-6-1879; St Petersburg, Russia
d. 11-5-1951; Leningrad

Ballerina Agrippina Vaganova became an outstanding ballet teacher developing the Vaganova techniques from the teaching methods of the Imperial Ballet School into a syllabus on the art of classical ballet.

Basic Principles of Classical Ballet - Agrippina Vaganova


Dame Ninette de Valois, Director of Sadler Wells Ballet and Founder of England's Royal Ballet, Photographic Print, Alfred Eisenstaedt
Dame Ninette de Valois,
Photographic Print

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Dame Ninette de Valois
née Edris Stannus
b. 6-6-1898; Blessington, County Wicklow, Ireland
d. 3-8-2001; London

Ninette de Valois, regarded as one of the most influential persons in ballet history, was a dancer, teacher, choreographer and founder of England's Royal Ballet.

Checkmate, VHS


Vera Zorina, who popularized the ballet on Broadway, and in the Movies, was once minor soloist in Hurok's Ballet. ..... 1944 LIFE Magazine Print
Vera Zorina,
1944 LIFE
Magazine Print

Vera Zorina, née Eva Brigitta Hartwig
b. 1-2-1917; Berlin, Germany
d. 4-9-2003; Santa Fe, NM (cerebral hemorrhage)

Vera Zorina, who popularized ballet on Broadway and in the movies such as On Your Toes, was also the second wife of George Balanchine.

Student Edwina Seaver Trying to Emulate Vera Zorina's Grand Jete, Photographic Print
Student Edwina Seaver Trying to Emulate Vera Zorina's Grand Jete, Photographic Print


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