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Also Known As Dorothea Sydney Moses
Born April 22, 1904 • Atlanta • Georgia
Died November 17, 1986 (aged 82) • Atlanta • Georgia
Founder Atlanta Ballet
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Medusa
Michel Fokine
Russian dancer and choreographer
Justin Peck
Justin Peck
American choreographer and dancer
Mark Morris
American dancer and choreographer
Glen Tetley
American dancer
William Forsythe
William Forsythe
American choreographer
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp
American dancer and choreographer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American dancer
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Pillar of Fire
Antony Tudor
American dancer
Eliot Feld
American dancer
Jacques d'Amboise
Jacques d’Amboise
American dancer
Suzanne Théodore Vaillande Douvillier
American dancer
Joffrey, Robert; Arpino, Gerald
Robert Joffrey
American choreographer and director
Ruth Page (left) and Harald Kreutzberg in Bacchanale, Chicago, c. 1934.
Ruth Page
American dancer and choreographer
Collins, Janet
Janet Collins
American dancer