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Also Known As Yuri Nikolayevich Grigorovich
Born January 2, 1927 (age 97) • St. Petersburg • Russia

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Alexei Ratmansky
Russian dancer and choreographer
Rudolf Nureyev performing in Flower Festival at Genzano.
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet-born dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American dancer
Leonid Lavrovsky
Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher
Rostislav Zakharov
Russian dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director
Aleksandr Gorsky
Russian dancer and choreographer
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Glen Tetley
American dancer
Matthew Bourne
British choreographer and dancer
Sir Robert Helpmann
Australian dancer
Bournonville, oil on canvas by Louis Aumont, 1828; in the Theatre Museum, Copenhagen
August Bournonville
Danish dancer
Dolin in Bluebeard, 1942
Sir Anton Dolin
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Pillar of Fire
Antony Tudor
American dancer
Eliot Feld
American dancer
Dame Ninette de Valois
Irish-born British dancer
Frederick Ashton (left) and Robert Helpmann rehearsing their roles as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella, 1965.
Sir Frederick Ashton
British choreographer
Maurice Béjart.
Maurice Béjart
French dancer
Joffrey, Robert; Arpino, Gerald
Robert Joffrey
American choreographer and director
Martins, Peter
Peter Martins
Danish dancer