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George Balanchine (/ ˈbælən (t) ʃiːn, ˌbælənˈ (t) ʃiːn /; [1] born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; [a] January 22, 1904 [O.S. January 9] – April 30, 1983) was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th-century. [2] Styled as the father of American ballet, [3 ...
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. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk ...
Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief (her birth name) was born in Fairfax, Oklahoma, on January 24, 1925, to Alexander Joseph Tall Chief (1890–1959), a member of the Osage Nation, and his wife, Ruth (née Porter), of Scottish-Irish descent. [5][6] Porter had met Alexander Tall Chief, a widower, while visiting her sister, who was his mother's ...
The most common injuries for ballet dancers are snapping hip syndrome and foot and ankle injuries. [14] A dancer's feet and ankles are vulnerable to a wide range of injuries including stress fractures, tendon injuries, sprains and strains. Much of this is due to not only the emphasis of footwork in dance, but also the footwear.
In French, a male ballet dancer is referred to as a danseur and a female as a danseuse. In Italian, a ballerina is a female who typically holds a principal title within a ballet company; the title for equally ranked males is ballerino. In Italian, the common term for a male dancer is danzatore and a female dancer is a danzatrice.
A timeline of the history of ballet: 14th century. Medieval dance. 15th century. 16th century. Renaissance dance. Ballet de cour. Intermedio - Italian court spectaculars with dance. Ballet Comique de la Reine - sometimes called the "first ballet".
She was the oldest of three children of a Japanese father (Shoji Osato, 1885–1955) and a Canadian mother of French-Irish origin (Frances Fitzpatrick, 1897–1954). [2] Her family moved to Chicago in 1925 in order to be closer to Frances' family, and Shoji opened a photography studio there. [1][3] In 1927, when she was eight, Osato's mother ...
Performing arts. Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. Ballet has been influential globally and ...