Ballerinas Ballerinas Agnes George de Mille ( September 18, 1905 – October 7 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. She was born in Harlem into a well-connected family of theater professionals (her uncle was Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille, and Agnes de Mille was also the granddaughter of economist Henry George). ...more on Wikipedia about "Agnes de Mille"
Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova ( July 6, 1879 - November 5, 1951) was an outstanding Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method. Her Fundamentals of the Classic Dance (1934) remains a standard textbook for ballet technique. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agrippina Vaganova"
Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova ( November 20, 1903- July 13, 1997) was a Russian-born prima ballerina assoluta who became a United States citizen. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexandra Danilova"
Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martinez Hoya (born December 21, 1920), simply known as Alicia Alonso, is a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer. She is considered a legend and is most famous for her portrayals of Giselle and Carmen. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Alicia Alonso"
Dame Alicia Markova, DBE ( December 1 1910 – December 2 2004) was an British prima ballerina. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alicia Markova"
Alina Cojocaru(born May 27, 1981) is a female principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London. She was born in Bucharest, Romania. She joined the Royal Ballet in 1999 and became a principal dancer in 2001. She has played such classic roles as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Odette and Odile in Swan Lake, and Aurora in Sleeping Beauty. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alina Cojocaru"
Alla Sizova is a twentieth-century ballet dancer, best known for her work with the Kirov Ballet. She was the preferred dance partner of Rudolph Nureyev before his defection, and Nureyev is rumoured to have said in his later years that Sizova was the only thing that could conceivably entice him back to the Soviet Union. Amongst other roles, Sizova received great acclaim as Princess Aurora in the 1964 Kirov production Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty opposite Yuri Solovyov. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alla Sizova"
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Anastasia Volochkova ( Russian: Анастасия Волочкова) is a Soviet ballerina and a member of the Bolshoi Ballet. She was born in Leningrad in 1976 and was trained in the Vaganova Ballet Academy. She then danced with the Kirov Ballet. In 1998 she moved to the Boshoi Ballet. In 2004 she left the Bolshoi and become the prima ballerina for the Ballet Grigorovich in the city of Krasnodar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anastasia Volochkova"
Anik Bissonnette (born February 9, 1962, Montreal) is a Canadian ballet dancer and principal dancer, since 1990, with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anik Bissonnette"
Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (Анна Павловна Павлова) ( January 31, 1881 ( Old Style)/ February 12, 1881 ( New Style) - January 23, 1931) was a famous ballet dancer of the early 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anna Pavlova"
Dame Antoinette Sibley is a British prima ballerina who was born in 1939 in Bromley, Kent. In 1956, she joined the Royal Ballet and later partnered Anthony Dowell. Like Margot Fonteyn and Darcey Bussell, she was its prima ballerina. Her major ballet roles for which she was famous included Swan Lake and Giselle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antoinette Sibley"
Audrey Hepburn ( 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was an Anglo-Dutch actress, fashion model and humanitarian. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels, Belgium, she was the only child of Joseph Anthony Ruston, an Anglo- Irish banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings. Her father later appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston. She had two half-brothers, Alexander and Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman. ...more on Wikipedia about "Audrey Hepburn"
Avdotia Ilyinichna Istomina ( 1799- 1848) was the most celebrated Russian ballerina of the 19th century. She debuted in the Mariinsky Ballet in 1815 to immediate acclaim. Several people were killed duelling for her heart, and her honour was defended in the fourfold duel (1817): Count Zavadovsky killed Count Sheremetev, while the Decembrist Yakubovich shot through a palm of the playwright Alexander Griboedov. Her dancing is the subject of a brilliant stanza in Eugene Onegin, which was described by Vladimir Nabokov as the most mellifluous lines in the whole of Russian poetry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avdotia Istomina"
Beryl Goldwyn (born 1930) is a British ballet dancer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beryl Goldwyn"
Bronislava Nijinska ( January 8, 1891 - February 21, 1972) was a Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Polish descent, ...more on Wikipedia about "Bronislava Nijinska"
Carlotta Grisi, real name Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi ( June 28, 1819 - May 20, 1899), was an Italian ballet dancer. She studied under Jules Perrot. Notable roles include the title role in famous ballet Giselle( 1841) and a part in Pas de Quatre( 1845). These roles were created just for her. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carlotta Grisi"
Cynthia Gregory is an American ballerina who Nureyev called America's prima ballerina. She was born in 1946 in Los Angeles. She become a soloist of the American Ballet Theater in New York in 1966, and later its prima ballerina. She danced roles in all the major ballets, and was especially noted for her dancing in Giselle, and works chereographed by Antony Tudor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cynthia Gregory"
Darcey Bussell (born London; April 27 1969) is an English ballerina, one of the most famous exponents of the art in recent decades. ...more on Wikipedia about "Darcey Bussell"
Darci Kistler (born June 4, 1964) was one of the more noted American ballerinas of the 20th century, and was the last lead dancer for the legendary choreographer George Balanchine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Darci Kistler"
Daria Klimentová ( 1971 in Prague) is a Czech Prima Ballerina and photographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daria Klimentová"
Deirdre Hawkins is a ballet dancer, choreographer, studio owner, and artistic director of the Folsom Lake Civic Ballet which is the official ballet company of Folsom, California, USA. Her studio, Hawkins School of Performing Arts is located in Folsom and is the official ballet school for the Folsom Lake Civic Ballet and offers dance instruction for ballet, jazz, hip hop, tap, and many other forms of dance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deirdre Hawkins"
Delia Scala, born September 25, 1929 - died January 15, 2004, was an Italian ballerina and actress. ...more on Wikipedia about "Delia Scala"
Elizaveta Pavlovna Gerdt ( ; , 1975) was a Russian dancer and teacher whose career links the Russian imperial and Soviet schools of classical dance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elizaveta Gerdt"
Emma Livry ( 1842 – 1863) was one of the last ballerinas of the Romantic ballet era, and a protégée of Marie Taglioni. She perished from burn injuries when her costume caught fire during a performance rehearsal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emma Livry"
Evelyn Anne Hart C.C. (born April 4, 1956) is a Canadian ballerina and principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Evelyn Hart"
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