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Russian ballet choreographers (23 P) Pages in category "Ballet choreographers" The following 173 pages are in this category, out of 173 total.
This is a list of choreographers: A. Aaliyah; Paula Abdul; Kyle Abraham; Alvin Ailey; Debbie Allen; Richard Alston; Sir Frederick Ashton; ... Dance This page was last ...
Anton Dolin - English ballet dancer and choreographer; Holly Dorger - American ballet dancer; Anthony Dowell - English ballet dancer and choreographer; Jurgita Dronina - Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer; Remo D'Souza - Indian Bollywood choreographer; Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo a.k.a. "Nappytabs" - dance teachers, choreographers, and creative ...
Balanchine was 21 at the time and became the main choreographer for the most famous ballet company. Sergei Diaghilev insisted that Balanchine change his name from Balanchivadze to Balanchine. Diaghilev soon promoted Balanchine to ballet master of the company and encouraged his choreography. Between 1924 and Diaghilev's death in 1929, Balanchine ...
Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015), Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress, who is considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. Since 1960 she was the prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev [a] (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the most preeminent male ballet dancer of his generation as well as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time.
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine [1] and Lincoln Kirstein. [2] Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director.
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...