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Ivor Guest
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Ballet historian. Author of The Ballet of the Enlightenment, Ballet in Leicester Square, Jules Perrot, The Romantic Ballet in Paris and others.

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Lucile Grahn in La Cracovienne, lithograph by Pierre-Emile Desmaisons, 1844
Lucile Grahn was a ballerina, ballet mistress, and choreographer who was the first Danish ballerina to attain international renown. Grahn received her training at the Royal Danish Theatre School in Copenhagen, where her principal teacher was the ballet master August Bournonville. She made her…
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