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Igor Youskevitch
American ballet dancer
Raven Wilkinson
American dancer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova
Russian ballerina
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
Bakst, Léon
Léon Bakst
Russian artist
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Medusa
Michel Fokine
Russian dancer and choreographer