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Biographical essays on significant figures in ballet history, including stories from personal experiences with many of these figures.

Alicia Alonso (1921 - 2019)

Yelena Andreianova (1819 - 1857)

Helene Antonova (1898-1974)

Jean Aumer (1774-1833)

George Balanchine (Balanchivadze) (1904-1983)

Jean Balon (1676-1739)

Irina Baronova (1919 - 2008)

Pierre Beauchamp (1636-1705)

Carlo Blasis (1797-1878)

Nicole Blondy (Blondi) (1677-1747)

Adolph Bolm (1884-1951)

Ruthanna Boris (1918 - 2007)

Anatole Bourman (1888-1962)

Antoine Bournonville (1760-1843)

Marie Camargo (1710-1770)

Edward Caton (1900-1981)

Enrico Cecchetti (1850-1928)

Fanny Cerrito (1817-1909)

Jean Coralli (1779-1854)

Coulon Family

Margaret Craske (1892-1990)

Leon Danielian (1920-1997)

Alexandra (Choura) Danilova (1904-1997)

Jean Dauberval (1742-1806)

Catherine de' Medici (1519 - 1589)

Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)

Ninette de Valois (1898-2001)

Sergei Denham (1897 - 1970)

Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929)

Charles-Louis Didelot (1767-1837)

Vladimir Dokoudovsky (1919 - 1998)

Anton Dolin (1904-1983)

Felia Doubrovska (1896-1981)

Louis Dupre (1697-1774)

Nicholas (Kola) Efimov

Andre Eglevsky (1917 - 1977)

Lubov Egorova (1880-1972)

Fanny Elssler (1810-1884)

Sophie Fedorova (1879-1963)

Mikhail Fokine (1880-1942)

Frederic Franklin (1914-2013)

The Gardel Brothers

Yekaterina Geltzer (1876-1962)

Tamara Geva (1908-1997)

Nana Gollner (1920-1980)

Alexander Gorsky (1870-1924)

Lucile Grahn (1819-1907)

Cynthia Gregory (b. 1946)

Serge Leonovich Grigoriev (1883 - 1968)

Carlotta Grisi (1819-1899)

Marie-Madeleine Guimard (1743-1816)

Melissa Hayden (1923 - 2006)

Solomon Hurok (Gurkov) (1888-1974)

Lev Ivanov

Marie-Jeanne (1920 - 2008)

Christian Johansson (1817 - 1903)

Louis Johnson (b. 1931)

Vera Karalli (1888-1972)

Maria Karnilova (1920 - 2001)

Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (1885-1978)

Nora Kaye (1920-1987)

Michael Kidd (1919 - 2007)

Nathalie Krassovska (1918 - 2005)

John Kriza (1919-1975)

Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971)

Jean Baptiste Lande

Charles le Picq (1744-1806)

Nicolai Legat (1869-1937)

Pierina Legnani (1863 - 1923)

Giovanni Lepri (1850-1860)

David Lichine (1910-1972)

Serge Lifar (1903-1986)

Robert Lindgren (1923 - 2013)

Catherine Littlefield (1905 - 1951)

Emma Livry (1842 - 1863)

Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)

Nicholas Magallanes (1922 - 1977)

Alicia Markova (Lillian Alicia Marks) (1910 - 2004)

Leonide Massine (1895 - 1979)

Augusta Maywood (1825 - 1876)

Mikhail Mordkin (1880-1944)

Mary Ellen Moylan (1926 - 2020)

Vera Nemtchinova (1899-1984)

Bronislava Fominitshna Nijinska (1891 - 1972)

Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (1888-1950)

Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810)

Laurent Novikoff (1888-1956)

Anatole Obouhkoff (1895-1962)

Nicholas Orloff (1914 - 2001)

Sono Osato (b. 1919)

Ruth Page (1905-1991)

Robert Pagent (1913 - 2001)

Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)

Louis Pecourt (1655-1729)

Jules Perrot (1810-1892)

The Petipa Dynasty

Paul Petroff (1906-1981)

Olga Preobrajenska (1870-1962)

Francoise Prevost (1680-1741)

Marie Rambert (1888-1982)

Pierre Rameau (1674-1748)

Janet Reed (1916 - 2000)

Tatiana Riabouchinska (1917-2000)

Jerome Robbins (1918-1999)

Carolina Rosati (1826-1905)

Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960)

Marie Salle, (1707-1756)

Ludmila Schollar (1888-1978)

Mia Slavenska (1914-2002)

Vivian Smith

Lydia Sokolova (1896 - 1974)

Olga Spessivtseva (1895-1991)

Marie Theresa Subligny (1666-1735)

Taglioni Family

Maria Tallchief (1925 - 2013)

Glen Tetley (1926 - 2007)

Tamara Toumanova (1919-1996)

Vera Trefilova (1875-1943)

Anthony Tudor (1908-1987)

Sonja Tyven (b. 1928)

Galina Ulanova (1910-1998)

Agrippa Vaganova (1879 - 1951)

The Vestris Dynasty

Salvatore Vigano (1769-1821)

Pierre Vladimirov (1893-1970)

Alexandre Volinine (1882-1955)

Patricia Wilde (b. 1928)

Raven Wilkinson (1935 - 2018)

Leon Woizikowski (1899-1975)

Sonia Wojcikowska (b. 1919)

Igor Youskevitch (1912-1994)

Virginia Zucchi (1847-1930)

Nicholas Zverev (1897 - 1965)