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Roland Petit: Quick Facts

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Born January 13, 1924 • France
Died July 10, 2011 (aged 87) • Geneva • Switzerland
Founder Ballets de Paris de Roland Petit
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Maurice Béjart.
Maurice Béjart
French dancer
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
Rasch, Albertina
Albertina Rasch
American dancer
Jules Perrot and Carlotta Grisi
Jules Perrot
French dancer and choreographer
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Arthur Saint-Léon
French dancer and musician
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Benjamin Millepied
French dancer and choreographer
Jean Coralli, engraving by Charles Vogt, c. 1852.
Jean Coralli
French dancer
Swan Lake
Sylvie Guillem
French dancer
Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar
Ukrainian-French dancer and choreographer
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Suzanne Théodore Vaillande Douvillier
American dancer
Marie Sallé, engraving after Nicolas Lancret.
Marie Sallé
French dancer
Dauberval, with Mlle Allard, in Sylvie, 1766; wood engraving by Jules Huyot, 19th century, after a contemporary work by an unknown artist
Jean Dauberval
French dancer
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Pierre Beauchamp
French ballet dancer
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Charles Didelot
French dancer
Jean-Georges Noverre
Jean-Georges Noverre
French choreographer and dancer
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Raoul-Auger Feuillet
French dancer
Overhead view of a Busby Berkeley dance sequence from Footlight Parade, showing dancers arranged in a precise, symmetrical circular formation with outstretched arms and legs.
Busby Berkeley
American director
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer