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Born November 29, 1919 • Port of Spain • Trinidad and Tobago
Died October 29, 1994 (aged 74) • New Rochelle • New York
Awards And Honors National Medal of Arts (1991)

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George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
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Charles Weidman
American dancer
Helen Tamiris.
Helen Tamiris
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Albertina Rasch
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Jacques d'Amboise
Jacques d’Amboise
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Maurice BĂŠjart.
Maurice BĂŠjart
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Irene Castle
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Vernon Castle
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Gower Champion
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Michael Kidd
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Busby Berkeley
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Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
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Bob Fosse with a beard and open-collared shirt, looking to the side in a black and white publicity still from the film All That Jazz.
Bob Fosse
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American film and dance director
Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street.
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Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Easter Parade
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