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Also Known As Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez y del
Born December 21, 1920 • Havana • Cuba
Died October 17, 2019 (aged 98) • Havana • Cuba

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American ballerina
Sylvie Guillem
Sylvie Guillem
French dancer
Léonide Massine
Russian dancer
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
Roland Petit
French dancer and choreographer
Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief
American dancer
André Eglevsky in Apollo, 1944.
André Eglevsky
American dancer
Benois, Alexandre: illustration of a set design
Alexandre Benois
Russian artist
Boris Kochno
French writer
Marjorie Tallchief
American dancer
Lawrence Rhodes
American ballet director
Leonid Lavrovsky
Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher
Igor Youskevitch
American ballet dancer
Auguste Vestris
French dancer
Pina Bausch
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Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer