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Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer and choreographer Ballet to music by John Field: Pas des Déesses; Cleopatra, last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt Anton Arensky et al.: Cleopatra; Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman general and politician Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus; Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist Marius Constant: Cyrano de Bergerac
Individuals who dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. Those with a one-word stage name are listed in a separate article. In many cases, performers have legally changed their name to their stage name. [1] Note: Many cultures have their own naming customs and systems, some rather intricate.
Ted Shawn - ballet dancer often in collaboration with his influential partner Ruth St. Denis; they were the creators of Denishawn; Moira Shearer - Scottish ballet dancer and actress in The Red Shoes; Fang-Yi Sheu - Taiwanese dancer; Ingrid Silva - Brazilian ballet dancer; Daniil Simkin - ballet dancer; Mary Skeaping - British ballerina
He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s. He subsequently became a noted dance director. [3] Born in Riga, Latvian SSR, into a Russian family, Baryshnikov had a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad before defecting to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in Western dance.
In French, a male ballet dancer is referred to as a danseur and a female as a danseuse. In Italian, a ballerina is a female who typically holds a principal title within a ballet company; the title for equally ranked males is ballerino. In Italian, the common term for a male dancer is danzatore and a female dancer is a danzatrice.
M. Julian MacKay; Nicholas Magallanes; Donald Mahler; Bruce Marks (dancer) Lorca Massine; Nicholas Masson; Jared Matthews; Michael Maule; Kevin McKenzie (dancer)
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Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev [a] (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the most preeminent male ballet dancer of his generation as well as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time.