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unusual facts about ballet dancer


Luigi Astolfi

He was premier danseur, of both Italian and Portuguese dancers, at the Royal Theatre of Saint John in Lisbon until the season 1839–40, which was a complete failure for Astolfi.


Anastasia Nabokina

She worked with Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev and Nina Timofeeva.

Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu

Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu (born c. 1960) is a Turkish ballet dancer and a former beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1982.


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Adrian Paul

His first role was on the ABC television series, The Colbys as the Russian ex-patriate ballet dancer, Kolya (1987–1988).

Alexia Barlier

Alexia's mother was from New Zealand a ballet dancer and yoga teacher and her father was art dealer in Paris, hence her dual nationality.

And the Spring Comes

She is not dreaming alone: There's a young man who wants to be China's Vincent van Gogh She also meets a gay ballet dancer who is past his prime.

Anna Marly

In her youth Marly had worked as a ballet dancer in Monte Carlo, and been taught by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.

Argentines in Uruguay

Julio Bocca, ballet dancer, current director of SODRE 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.

Bolender

Todd Bolender (1914–2006), American ballet dancer and choreographer

Diana Yukawa

Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan to English ballet dancer Susanne Bayly and Japanese banker Akihisa Yukawa one month after her father died in the 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 disaster.

Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani

Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani (born 2 July 1772, Milan – 19 February 1832, Karlberg Palace) was an Italian ballet dancer.

Icelandic American

Helgi Tómasson is a former ballet dancer and current artistic director for the San Francisco Ballet and its ballet school is originally from Iceland.

Ingrid Bengis

She usually lives in Stonington, Maine, but also teaches twentieth century American literature at the University of St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Russia (where Alexander Pushkin and Vladimir Putin both studied), is married to a Russian ballet dancer and has one daughter and one stepson.

Jay Leyda

Leyda’s wife, Si-lan Chen, a ballet dancer of international reputation, was the daughter of Eugene Chen, a colleague of the Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen.

Jean-Baptiste Brulo

Jean-Baptiste Brulo (29 January 1746, Ghent – ?) was a French ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet master, the son of the French dancers Jean-Baptiste Brulo and Marie-Thérèse Tabary.

Jonathan Phelps

Known locally for his rich voice, he was also a Shakespearean actor and a part-time ballet dancer, having performed some roles with the Atlanta Ballet.

José Carreño

:For the Cuban-American ballet dancer (born 1968), see José Manuel Carreño.

Judith Gautier

Judith Gautier (25 August 1845, Paris – 26 December 1917) was a French poet and historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi.

Leonid Sobinov

They included, among many others, Elisabeth Sadovskaya, the actress, and Vera Karalli, the ballet dancer and silent-cinema star.

Lucette

Lucette Aldous (born 1938), Australian ballet dancer and ballet teacher

Maestro Armando Ortega

Many of his works were performed by the stars of his age: the tenor Raphael J. Sevilla, the first ballet dancer Luis Mauricio Caracas, the singer Betty Fabila, Maestro Ramón Noble, the Baritone Fernando Vivanco Barceló, and performances from the Maestro himself, who had a wonderful voice too.

Marc Albrecht

He is the son of the conductor George Alexander Albrecht and Corinne Albrecht, formerly a ballet dancer who became a physiotherapist.

Marcia Haydée

Marcia Haydée (Marcia Haydée Salaverry Pereira de Silva), is a ballet dancer and choreographer from Brazil who was born in Niterói on April 18, 1937.

Massimiliano Scaglia

Massimiliano is the brother of Valentina Scaglia, a professional ballet dancer based in the Netherlands.

Michel François Hoguet

Michel François Hoguet (b. 17 June 1793 in Paris – d. 5 April 1871 in Berlin) was a French ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer at the Royal Berlin Theater, where he worked from 1817 until 1823 as first solo dancer.

Mlakar

Pino Mlakar (1907–2006), Slovenian ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher

Mona Barrie

Born Mona Barlee Smith in London, she was educated in Australia and made her professional debut as a ballet dancer in Sydney at the age of sixteen.

Natalia Clare

Natalia Clare (September 3, 1919 – April 8, 2007) was an American ballet dancer and instructor who performed (sometimes as Natalia Conlon) with Ballets Russes and opened her own Los Angeles studio in 1956.

Nicholas J. Cifarelli

Cifarelli completed a lifelike sculpture of Rudolf Nureyev, the world-renowned ballet dancer; the head was presented to Nureyev at the Greek Theatre (Los Angeles).

Paris–Le Bourget Airport

On 16 June 1961, the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget Airport.

Peter Speliopoulos

Speliopoulos has also worked as a costume designer for Karole Armitage, a New York ballet dancer who owns her own dance company.

Platon Karsavin

After completing his career of ballet dancer, he became a teacher at the Imperial choreographic school.

Polly Cuninghame

Marie Polly Cuninghame (ca. 1785, Bordeaux - 9 April 1837, De Bilt), known after her marriage as Polly de Heus, was a Dutch ballet dancer.

Rigmor Mydtskov

Among her best-known theatre photographs are the actors Poul Reument and Bodil Kjer (1955) and the ballet dancer Anna Lærkesen (1963).

Robert Hitchcock

These include a series of sculptures of the Russian Ballet Dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

Seduce Me After the Show

In the title story, "Seduce Me After the Show" the story opens with Theo Galland, a ballet dancer prodigy, performing the dual role of the fiery, free spirited Carmen and the doomed and captured Jose in the musical dance Carmen.

Sophie Hagman

Sophie Hagman née Anna Stina Hagman or Anna Sophia Hagman, (31 December 1758 in Eskilstuna, Södermanland, Sweden – 6 May 1826 in Stockholm, Sweden), was a Swedish ballet dancer.

Spohr

Arnold Spohr (1923-2010), Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of German descent

Tener Brown

Tener Brown (or Carolyn Tener Brown, born 1960) is an American ballet coach of New Jersey Ballet, a former ballet dancer of American Ballet Theatre, and a former actress.

Tessa Earl

Tessa Earl is a ballet dancer who has performed as company dancer for many Christian dance companies including Ballet Rejoice and the United States' most well-known Christian dance company, Ballet Magnificat!.

Van Goethem

Marie van Goethem (1865–?), French ballet dancer and artist's model

Van Le Ngoc

From 1996 - 1998, he followed his study to become a ballet dancer at National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon (CNSM).

Villella

Edward Villella (born 1936), American ballet dancer and choreographer