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unusual facts about prima ballerina



Filippo Taglioni

The triumphant première of La Sylphide on March 12, 1832, made her the most acclaimed prima ballerina of the Romantic period and him the most renowned choreographer of the day.

Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic

Notwithstanding his marriage in 1865 with Joséphine Scévole de Barral, the mother of these daughters, Lepic was later to take the prima ballerina Marie Sanlaville as his mistress and designed dresses for the ballets in which she danced, including the Harlequin costume for Les Jumeaux de Bergame.

Tatiana Mamaki

On 5 March 1940 the Greek National Opera had its first official opening with the inaugurating Johann Strauss operetta, Die Fledermaus, in which Mamaki was Prima ballerina.


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Ara Gevorgyan

Gevorgyan also composed the music for Russian prima ballerina Anastasia Volochkova's "Golden cage" ballet dedicated to the Bolshoi Theater.

Dance in Israel

From its inception until 1979, the prima ballerina of Batsheva was Rina Schenfeld; she and Rena Gluck were the company's principal dancers for many years.

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.

Legnani

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

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde

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

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.

Tamara Toumanova

In 1953 she played Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova in Tonight We Sing, and in 1954 she appeared in the biographical musical, Deep in My Heart, as the French dancer Gaby Deslys.

Tony Walton

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