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unusual facts about ballerina



Alexis Dupont

She was the sister of another ballerina, Lise Noblet, who danced the title part in Auber's La muette de Portici at its premiere, in which her brother-in-law Dupont also created a singing role.

Ali Cobrin

Growing up, she trained to become a classical ballerina and competed in the Junior Olympics.

Allegra Kent

In 2012, Kent published her first book for children, Ballerina Swan, with Holiday House Books for Young People, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully.

Amanda Jelks

She was given a brief cameo in Scary Movie 5 as a ballerina which was released in theaters April 2013.

Anneliese

Anneliese von Oettingen (1917–2002), ballerina and influential ballet teacher and choreographer

Anthony Thieme

He quickly found work as a stage designer at the Century Theater in New York, designing sets for the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.

Astad Deboo

A turning point in his career came in 1986, when in 1986, when Pierre Cardin commissioned him to choreograph for Maya Plisetskaya, the prime ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater ballet company.

Audrey Penn

Penn, in the 1970s, was a ballerina dancer dancing for the New York City Ballet, Danny Diamond Dance Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet, and the National Ballet.

Aviva method

She learnt everything about movements as a student of Gertrud Kraus, the world famous Israeli ballet dancer, then as a ballerina in the Opera House of Tel Aviv, later as a physiotherapist at the Medical University and in the Hadassah University Clinic.

Cecil Harcourt

One of her daughters by her first marriage was the noted ballerina Diana Gould, who became the second wife of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin.

Chan-hon Goh

In 2002, Goh's autobiography (co-written with Cary Fagan) entitled Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's Life was released by Tundra Books.

Charles Didelot

He became the first choreographer who brought a ballerina posing on the pointe - in 1815 in the ballet Flora and Zephyr (1815, Paris), the main parts: Geneviève Gosselin - Flora, Albert (dancer) - Zephyr, it was not dancing on the pointe, but it was the first release on the pointe (Geneviève Gosselin).

Charles Tyler

Tyler was specially requested by Nelson for the Cadiz blockade in 1805, and thus participated in the battle of Trafalgar, although not before he was forced to travel to Naples where his son was under arrest for desertion from the navy (out of love for a ballerina) and crippling debts.

Christian Johansson

Christian Johansson's daughter, the ballerina Anna Christianovna Johansson (1860-1917), was a celebrated soloist of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet and created roles in nearly every important premiere throughout the late 1880s, until burn injuries forced her to retire in 1895.

David Gayle

Gayle retired from the Yorkshire Ballet Seminars in 2005, handing over the directorship to Marguerite Porter, a former senior principal ballerina and guest artist with the Royal Ballet.

Doris Singleton

Singleton, born in New York City, trained as a classical ballerina, dancing for three seasons in the mid-1930s with the newly formed "Ballet Theatre", later to become the American Ballet Theatre.

Douglas Hopkins

Hopkins and Diamond had initially intended to create a "Valentina" fragrance, named for the ballerina Valentina Kozlova, whom Hopkins had photographed.

Frederick Tansley Munnings

Munnings's daughter Hilda Tansley Munnings became a noted ballerina under the name Lydia Sokolova.

Gabrielle Kurlander

In partnership with the retired prima ballerina Susan Jaffe, Kurlander has also established the ASP’s Artist Committee whose members include the actor Charles S. Dutton, the actor/comedienne Fran Drescher, the choreographer/dancer Bill T. Jones, the dancer/choreographer Desmond Richardson, the theatre director Robert Wilson and the actor/singer Donna Murphy.

Geoffrey Barkas

After the war, Barkas returned to film-making, working for the Rank Organisation making children's films including The Little Ballerina.

Heung Jin Moon

Moon's death came before his planned arranged marriage to ballerina Julia Pak, daughter of Moon's interpreter, Bo Hi Pak.

Jasper Rootham

At the end of the Second World War in 1945, Rootham married Joan McClelland who was a ballerina with Ballet Rambert (later to become the Rambert Dance Company).

Jennifer Leonhardt

The middle of three children born to an economist and a ballerina, Jennifer is a fifth generation Texan and a great-niece of Texas' New Deal governor James Allred.

Johan Kobborg

One of the highlights of his career is his partnership with Romanian ballerina, Alina Cojocaru.

Kleiber

Stanislava Brezovar or Stanislava Kleiber (1937–2003), Slovenian ballerina

Legnani

Pierina Legnani (1863-1923) — an Italian and the first prima ballerina assoluta

Leoni

Anilza Leoni (1933-2009), Brazilian actress, singer, ballerina and painter

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde

In 1984, she became the first Filipina prima ballerina, and first foreign soloist to ever join the Kirov Ballet.

Luigi Luciano

Luigi Luciano (Campobasso, Italy, 7 March 1980), better known as Herbert Ballerina is a radio host and actor, since January 2011, radio show co-host of the Lo Zoo di 105 broadcast by Radio 105 Network.

Lydia Sokolova

She joined Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1913 to become the company's first English ballerina.

Mardee Vosseler

Mardee Vosseler was a European-born ballerina, a protégé of Catherine Littlefield and sister of ballerina Heidi Vosseler.

Pierina Legnani

She was titled prima ballerina for La Scala in 1892, before moving to St Petersburg in 1892, where she reached fame dancing with the Tsar's Imperial Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre until 1901.

Roman Jasinski

After 1954, he and his wife Moscelyne Larkin, a ballerina with the same company, retired from performing.

Romantic ballet

The era is typically considered to have begun with the 1827 début in Paris of the ballerina Marie Taglioni in the ballet La Sylphide, and to have reached its zenith with the premiere of the divertissement Pas de Quatre staged by the Ballet Master Jules Perrot in London in 1845.

Sallie Wilson

She then choreographed two ballets,Pandora's Box and Eve, in Italy for her fellow ballerina and longtime friend Carla Fracci.

Sallie Wilson (1932–2008) was a noted ballerina who appeared with New York City Ballet where she danced opposite Martha Graham in the premiere of Graham and George Balanchine's collaboration at NYCB, Episodes in May, 1959, and subsequently with American Ballet Theatre, where she was associated with several ballets created by Antony Tudor.

Sally Gilpin

She was born as Sally Judd and she became a leading ballerina for the London Festival Ballet who danced in many roles in productions, such as The Nutcracker in 1962.

Salvatore Capezio

In 1910 the celebrated Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova had Capezio make pointe shoes for herself and her whole company during her first tour of the United States.

Stokely Webster

In 1933, he married renowned ballerina and satirical dancer Iva Kitchell.

Teatro Tapia

Other notable performers to have graced its stage include the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.

The Assassination of the Duke of Guise

There were two other features beside The Assassination, each with an original score of its own: Le Secret de Myrto, depicting ballerina Regina Badet dancing to music of Gaston Berardi; and L'Empreinte, with music by Fernand Le Borne contained a series of "picturesque tableaux" using silhouettes of Pierrot and other pantomime figures.

The Dying Swan

Inspired by swans that she had seen in public parks and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Dying Swan", Anna Pavlova (who had just become a ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre) asked Michel Fokine, who had also read the poem, to create a solo ballet for her for a 1905 concert being given by artists from the chorus of the Imperial Mariinsky Opera.

The Glass Ballerina

A young Sun-Hwa Kwon (Sophie Kim) breaks a glass ballerina and blames it on the maid, despite her father, Mr. Paik (Byron Chung), warning her the maid would be fired.

The Wonderful Worlds of Wally McDoogle

Wally does many crazy things such as become a secret agent in My Life as a Screaming Skydiver, become the sewage director for his hometown in My Life as Polluted Pond Scum, scuba dive in My Life as a Torpedo Test Target, dance as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker in My Life as a Blundering Ballerina, travel through time in My Life as a Toasted Time Traveler, and stars in two movies in My Life as Alien Monster Bait and My Life as a Bigfoot Breathmint.

Tony Walton

Daughter Emma Walton's godmother is actress and comedienne Carol Burnett, as well as the prima ballerina, Svetlana Beriosova.

Universal Ballet

Julia Moon herself is a lovely ballerina, a modest and gracious woman of 37, who seems overawed by her dual responsibilities as ballerina-in-chief and general director.

Valery Panov

On Broadway in 1983-84, Galina Panova succceeded Natalia Makarova, also a Russian ballerina who had defected, in the Broadway revival of On Your Toes, for which Makarova had won a Tony Award.

Violette Verdy

Violette Verdy (born Nelly Guillerm in 1 December 1933 in Pont-l'Abbé) is a French ballerina who has worked as a director of dance companies and in other related capacities since her retirement from performing in the late 1970s.

William Nelson Darnborough

His son was the film producer Antony Darnborough (1913–2000) and his daughter, the ballerina Hermione Darnborough (1915–2010), married the distinguished composer and director of film music, Muir Mathieson.


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