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

Alexandra Danilova in Swan Lake Photograph Print

Alexandra Danilova
b. 11-20-1903; Peterhof, Russia
d. 7-13-1997

Prima ballerina Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova left Russia with George Balanchine in 1924, performing with Sergei Diaghilev eventually becoming a US citizen. She danced in Swan Lake, the 1958 Broadway musical comedy “Oh, Captain!”, and was a teacher at the School of American Ballet.

• Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova

Jacques d'Amboise,
née Joseph Jacques Ahearn
b. 7-28-1934; Dedham, MA

Jacques D'Amboise, a principal dancer with the NYC Ballet and performer in musical films Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Carousel, founded National Dance Institute which has been teaching school children how to dance since 1976. FYI - A documentary film about Jacques d'Amboise and National Dance Institute won an Academy Award.

Fanny Elssler, 1846, Giclee Print

Fanny Elssler, née Franziska
b. 6-23-1810; Vienna
d. 11-27-1884; Vienna

Fanny Elssler was invited, but chose not to participate in the “Pas de Quatre”.

• Fanny Elssler by Ivor Guest

Suzanne Farrell
b. 8-16-1945; Cincinnati, OH

Suzanne Farrell, one of the most noted ballerinas of the 20th century, had a dancing career that spanned 28 years and a repertory of more than 100 ballets.

• A Midsummer Night's Dream posters

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.

Margot Fonteyn
b. 5-18-1919; Reigate, Surrey, England
d. 2-21-1991; Panama

Margot Fonteyn is regarded as one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time.