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La Camargo Dancing
Jean-Georges Noverre
Marie Taglioni
Le Train bleu
Anna Pavlova
George Balanchine and Beryl Grey
Alicia Alonso
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova
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A look at the world of ballet
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Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Igor Youskevitch
American ballet dancer
Auguste Vestris
French dancer
Yvonne Chouteau
American ballerina
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Serge Diaghilev, c. 1916.
Serge Diaghilev
Russian ballet impresario
Karen Kain
Canadian ballet dancer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Bakst, Léon
Léon Bakst
Russian artist