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Born January 12, 1901 • Wasseralfingen • Germany
Died May 22, 1979 (aged 78) • Heilbronn • Germany
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Jooss in The Green Table, c. 1935
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Martha Graham
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Twyla Tharp
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Antony Tudor
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Dame Ninette de Valois
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Frederick Ashton (left) and Robert Helpmann rehearsing their roles as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella, 1965.
Sir Frederick Ashton
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Sir Kenneth MacMillan
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Kreutzberg in Drei Irre Gestalten
Harald Kreutzberg
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Wigman, Mary
Mary Wigman
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Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
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George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
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Karen Kain
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Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
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Medusa
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Isadora Duncan dancing in an amphitheatre in Athens, photograph by Raymond Duncan, 1903.
Isadora Duncan
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Nijinsky in Paris
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