* He married 1908, Cleope Teresa Magliano ( 1888 – 1926 ), a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo.

From 1980 to 1995, the Ballet was run by dancer and choreographer Todd Bolender.

Karen Alexandria Kain, CC ( born March 28, 1951 in Hamilton, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ballet dancer, and currently the Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada.

He was married twice, remaining with his second wife, Clementina Stuart, a Royal Ballet dancer, for over fifty years.

* Lydia Wellington, New York City Ballet dancer

* June 16 – Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in France while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet.

* June 6 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London ( d. 2001 )

It is best known in the form of late Romantic ballet or Ballet Blanc, which preoccupies itself with the female dancer to the exclusion of almost all else, focusing on pointe work, flowing, precise acrobatic movements, and often presenting the dancers in the conventional short white French tutu.

One dancer who danced briefly for Balanchine was Mikhail Baryshnikov, an exemplar of Kirov Ballet training.

August was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the nephew of Julie Alix de la Fay, née Bournonville, of the Royal Swedish Ballet.

He studied under the Italian choreographer Vincenzo Galeotti at the Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen, and in Paris, France, under French dancer Auguste Vestris.

Following studies in Paris as a young man, August became solo dancer at the Royal Ballet in Copenhagen.

Bournonville danced from 1820 to 1828 with the noted dancer Marie Taglioni and the Paris Opera Ballet.

* Sterling Hyltin, New York City Ballet principal dancer

* Abi Stafford, New York City Ballet principal dancer and sister of Jonathan

* Jonathan Stafford, New York City Ballet principal dancer and brother of Abi

* Arron Scott – dancer, member of the American Ballet Theatre corps de ballet

His niece Maina Gielgud is a dancer and one time artistic director of the Australian Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet.

* December 28-Vaslav Nijinsky, Ballet dancer ( d. 1950 )

* Katherine Dunham-African-American dancer, and anthropologist, originally a ballet dancer she founded her first company Ballet Negre in 1936 and later the Katherine Dunham Dance Company based in Chicago, Illinois.

He criticized the Paris Opera Ballet ' use of the mask because it restricted the dancer from showing facial expressions that could bear meaning on their characters.

Alicia Markova was very young when she joined the Ballet Russes and would later say that she had called Diaghilev " Sergypops " and he'd said he would take care of her like a daughter.

Emanuel was encouraged by his mother to take ballet lessons as a boy and is a graduate of the Evanston School of Ballet, as well as a student of The Joel Hall Dance Center, where his children also took dance lessons.

Hilary is offered a spot with the San Francisco Ballet and, to take it, has an abortion.

In 1827 Taglioni left the Ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre to take up a three-year contract in Saint Petersburg with the Imperial Ballet ( known today as the Kirov / Mariinsky Ballet ).

She retired from The Royal Ballet in August 2001 to take up a new position at the Royal Opera House in January 2002, as Creative Director, ROH2, developing a range of small scale and experimental artistic initiatives and overseeing the programme in the theatre ’ s alternative performance spaces.

In 2011, the National Ballet of Canada premiered a new choreography of Romeo and Juliet by Alexei Ratmansky in Toronto, with plans to take it on tour in Western Canada in early 2012.

After Gorsky departed St. Petersburg in 1900 to take up the post of Balletmaster to the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre, the project was taken over by Nicholas Sergeyev, former Danseur of the Imperial Ballet ( and later régisseur in 1903 ) with his team of notators-Alexander Chekrygin joined the project in 1903, and Victor Rakhmanov in 1904.

To commemorate the occasion, their 400th Anniversary Committee, headed by Old Owenian Gary Kemp ( Spandau Ballet performed their first gig in the dining room in Potters Bar ), have already set up significant events for the whole school community to take part.

Stretton's success with the Australian Ballet led to an offer to take over as artistic director at the Royal Ballet with the intention of bringing new works to the company.

Later the same year she took and passed the entrance exam for the school and a few months later was chosen ( with 8 other Romanian students ) by the director of the Kiev Ballet school to take part in a student exchange .< ref >

The first group of students included twelve boys and twelve girls, who later went on to form what would become the predecessor of today's Mariinsky Ballet.

Shortly after his immigration, Balanchine formed what is now known as the New York City Ballet and chose to have his company's first performance at the Wadsworth in 1934.

It is owed absolutely to the idealism which fired Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois ’ who was the founder of what became The Royal Ballet.

He studied at the Sadler's Wells Ballet School, joined the opera ballet there and then took part in the inaugural performance of The Sadler's Wells Ballet Company — what is now Birmingham Royal Ballet.

By the time Marius was six years old his family had settled in Brussels, in what was then the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, where his father was appointed Maître de Ballet and Premier danseur to the Théâtre de la Monnaie.

It was through these revivals by Sergeyev in London with aid of these notations that the ballets of Petipa where first staged in the west, forming the nucleus of what is now known as the Classical Ballet reperotry for not only the ballet of England but for the world.

This led Richardson to organise a meeting of eminent dance professionals at the former Trocadero Restaurant in Piccadilly, with Genée as one of the special guests representing what were, at the time, recognised as the leading methods of Classical Ballet training.

At an after-ballet party, arranged by her aunt as a surreptitious audition, she meets Boris Lermontov ( Anton Walbrook ), the ruthless but charismatic impresario of the Ballet Lermontov, who questions her: Lermontov: Why do you want to dance? Vicky: Why do you want to live? Lermontov: Well, I don't know exactly why, but ...

fifteen overtures, the most celebrated that you have not at present, such as Pamorze, Psyche, Ballet de Paris, etc, de Telemaque, la Caravanne, etc.

Dancers, such as Karen Kain, a member of the National Ballet of Canada, remember Tetley as a choreographer who had a " ferocious demand for total artistic commitment ", while David Allan recalls that Tetley " fired up your imagination and made you look at yourself differently ".