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Alexander Godunov, Photographic Print

Alexander Godunov
b. 11-28-1949; Sakhalin, Russia
d. 5-18-1995; Hollywood, CA

Ballet dancer and movie actor Alexander Godunov, a member of the Bolshoi Ballet, defected to the United States in 1979. His U.S. movie roles include an Amish farmer in Witness (1985), a symphony conductor, “the maestro”, in The Money Pit (1986), and a terrorist in Die Hard (1988).

• Alexander Godunov

Balletmaster Yuri Grigorovich Poster

Yuri Grigorovich
b. 1-2-1927; Leningrad, Russia

Yuri 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

Carlotta Grisi Giclee Print

Carlotta Grisi, née Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi
b. 6-28-1819; Visinada, Istria (Croatia)
d. 5-20-1899; Geneva, Switzerland

Carlotta Grisi's greatest role was Giselle, a ballet choregraphed by her teacher danseur Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli. She was one of the ballerinas featured in the “Pas de Quatre”.

• Carlotta Grisi by Serge Lifar

Paloma Herrera Art Print

Paloma Herrera
b. 12-21-1975; Buenos Aires, Argentina

Paloma Herrera is a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.

The Joffrey Ballet, Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company

Robert Joffrey
née Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan
b. 12-25-1930; Seattle, WA
d. 3-25-1988

Robert Joffrey is best remembered for his modern ballet creations and the dance company that bears his name. Joffrey also taught at the New York School for the Perfoming Arts.

Ballerina Thamara Karsavina Posing in Costume for the Ballet "Pavilion D'Armide", Photographic Print

Tamara Karsavina
b. 3-10-1885; St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 5-26-1978; England

Tamara Karsavina, noted for her beauty, graduated from the Imperial Bellet School. Karsavina was also a leading ballerina of the Tsar's Imperial Ballet, danced in the Ballet Russe of Sergei Diaghilev and was the ballet teacher of Alicia Markova and Margot Fonteyn.

Gelsey Kirkland
b. 12-29-1952; Bethlehem, PA

Gelsey Kirkland joined the NYC Ballet at the age of fifteen, having been inspired to dance by watching Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. She is perhaps best remembered by the public for her role of Clara in Mikhail Barysnikov's 1977 television production of The Nutcracker.

Serge Lifar
b. 4-2-1905; Kiev, Ukraine
d. 12-15-1986; Switzerland

Serge Lifar, dancer and choreographer, is considered one the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century.

• Lifar on Classical Ballet