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Michel Fokine
Bob Fosse

Loie Fuller
Martha Graham

Michel Fokine
b. 4-23-1880; St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 8-22-1942; New York

Michel Fokine is best remembered as a ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher.

Bob Fosse, 1974, Photographic Print

Bob Fosse
b. 6-23-1927; Chicago, IL
d. 9-23-1987; Washington, DC

Dancer, choreographer, and director Bob Fosse, who won eight Tony Awards and was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning for Cabaret, got his start in vaudeville and performing as a ballroom dancer in nightclubs.

The musical All That Jazz is a semi-autobiographical musical based on the life and career Fosse.

Study for Loie Fuller at the Folies Bergeres, 1893, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Giclee Print

Marie Louise “Loie” Fuller
b. 1-15-1862; Hinsdale, IL
d. 1-1-1928; Paris (breast cancer)

Modern dance and theatrical lighting pioneer Loie Fuller (née Marie Louise Fuller) was a regular performer in Paris, and called “La Loie”. She was one of dancers immortalized by Toulouse-Lautrec, and was friends with artists, poets and scientists (like William Butler Yeats, Stephane Mallarme, and Marie Curie), and was said to embody the Art Noveau Movement. Fuller also introduced Isadora Duncan to Europe.

• Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism

Martha Graham Photograph

Martha Graham
b. 5-11-1894; Allegheny, PA
d. 4-1-1991

• Martha Graham Dance on Film

Martha Graham - Lucifer Poster Joan Miro artist

Balletmaster Yuri Grigorovich Poster

Yuri Grigorovich
b. 1-2-1927; Leningrad

Yury Grigorovich, as Director and Chief choreographer of the Bolshoi, dominated Russian ballet for 30 years. He was born into a family connected with the Imperial Russian Ballet and was married to ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova.

• Khatchaturian - Spartacus / Irek Mukhamedov, Natalya Bessmertnova, Maria Bylova, Yuri Grigorovich, Bolshoi Ballet, DVD