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Alicia Alonso
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev
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Raven Wilkinson
American dancer
Igor Youskevitch
American ballet dancer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Serge Diaghilev, c. 1916.
Serge Diaghilev
Russian ballet impresario
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Isadora Duncan dancing in an amphitheatre in Athens, photograph by Raymond Duncan, 1903.
Isadora Duncan
American dancer
Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova
Russian ballerina
Bakst, Léon
Léon Bakst
Russian artist
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Karen Kain
Canadian ballet dancer