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Born January 30, 1920 • Ardmore • Oklahoma
Died November 3, 2008 or November 4, 2008 • Cannes • France
Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor
American dancer
Violette Verdy
Violette Verdy
French ballerina
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Glen Tetley
American dancer
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Lincoln Kirstein
American dance patron, writer, and businessman
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Eliot Feld
American dancer
Joffrey, Robert; Arpino, Gerald
Robert Joffrey
American choreographer and director
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Marjorie Tallchief
American dancer
Rudolf Nureyev performing in Flower Festival at Genzano.
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet-born dancer
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Dame Marie Rambert
ballet producer, director, and teacher
Dolin in Bluebeard, 1942
Sir Anton Dolin
British dancer
Ida Rubinstein
Ida Rubinstein
Russian dancer
Alicia Markova, 1954.
Dame Alicia Markova
British ballerina
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Kirsten Ralov
Danish dancer
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Soviet-born American actor and ballet dancer
Judith Jamison
Judith Jamison
American dancer
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William Schuman
American composer
André Eglevsky in Apollo, 1944.
André Eglevsky
American dancer
Rasch, Albertina
Albertina Rasch
American dancer