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Born January 12, 1901 • Wasseralfingen • Germany
Died May 22, 1979 (aged 78) • Heilbronn • Germany
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Jooss in The Green Table, c. 1935
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Irish-born British dancer
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American dancer
Mark Morris
American dancer and choreographer
Twyla Tharp
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American dancer and choreographer
Katherine Dunham
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American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
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British-born dancer and choreographer
Matthew Bourne
British choreographer and dancer
Pillar of Fire
Antony Tudor
American dancer
Frederick Ashton (left) and Robert Helpmann rehearsing their roles as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella, 1965.
Sir Frederick Ashton
British choreographer
Hanya Holm
American choreographer
Sir Kenneth MacMillan
British choreographer
Kreutzberg in Drei Irre Gestalten
Harald Kreutzberg
German dancer
Wigman, Mary
Mary Wigman
German dancer
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
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George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Nijinsky in Paris
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Russian dancer
Karen Kain
Canadian ballet dancer
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Medusa
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