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BOOKS ABOUT BALLET DANCERS
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Anna Pavlova
b. 1-31-1881; St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 1-23-1931; The Netherlands
Anna Pavlova was a Russian ballet dancer best known for her delicate etheral look that contrasted with the then predominant Russian ideal of strong and muscular dancers, and her showpiece “The Dying Swan” danced to Camille Saint-Saëns' The Swan from Carnival of the Animals.
Because of her highly arched foot Pavlova developed a pointe shoe that served as the model for today's pointe shoe.
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Jules Perrot
b. 8-18-1810; Lyon, France
d. 8-29-1892; France
Jules Perrot was a renowned 19th century danseur (male ballet dancer), choreographer, and Balletmaster of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet. Perrot also choregraphed the divertimento (amusement) “Pas de Quatre” that brought together the leading ballerinas of the time.
In 1874 artist Edgar Degas honored Jules Perrot in one of his dance painting by imagining the dance master commanding a practice session in the recently destroyed Paris Opera House.
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Marius Petipa
b. 3-11-1818; Marseille, France
d. 7-14-1910; Crimea, Russia
Marius Petipa, a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer, is cited nearly unanimously to be the most influential balletmaster and choreographer that has ever lived.
See Ballets List for curriculum enrichment resources related to Petipa ballets such as Don Quixote (1869); La Bayadère (1877); Le Talisman (1889); The Sleeping Beauty (1890); The Nutcracker (1892), Raymonda (1898), Le Corsaire, Giselle, La Esmeralda, Coppélia, La Fille Mal Gardée (with Lev Ivanov), The Little Humpbacked Horse and Swan Lake (with Lev Ivanov).
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Maya Plisetskaya
b. 11-20-1925; Moscow, Russia
Maya Plisetskaya, considered on of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, was a member of the Bolshoi from 1943 till her 1990 retirement. Her father was executed during the Stalin purges, her mother imprisoned.
• I, Maya Plisetskaya
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Alexander Pushkin
b. 1907; Russia
d. 1970
Dancer Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin is legendary as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov's ballet teacher, as were nearly all the leading male dancers of the Kirov Ballet from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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Ida Rubinstein
b. 10-5-1885; St Petersburg, Russia
d. 9-20-1960; France
Ballet dancer Ida Rubinstein was considered an icon of the late 19th and early 20th century Belle Epoque of European history.
She danced for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes in the title role of Cléopâtre (1909), and Zobéide in Scherezade with Nijinsky (1910). The ballets were choreographed by Michel Fokine, and designed by Leon Bakst.
Rubinstein was also a patron of the arts and commissioned Maurice Ravel to write the music for a ballet - the result was Boléro.
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Jia Ruskaja (Evgenija Borisenko)
b. 6-1-1902; Crimea
d. 4-19-1970; Rome
Dancer and choreographer Evgenija Borisenko was known by her stage name Jia Ruskaja in Italy.
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