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Also Known As Solomon Isaievich Hurok
Born April 9, 1888 • Russia
Died March 5, 1974 (aged 85) • New York City • New York
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Medusa
Michel Fokine
Russian dancer and choreographer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American dancer
André Eglevsky in Apollo, 1944.
André Eglevsky
American dancer
Yvonne Chouteau
American ballerina
Igor Youskevitch
American ballet dancer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Serge Diaghilev, c. 1916.
Serge Diaghilev
Russian ballet impresario
Nijinsky in Paris
Vaslav Nijinsky
Russian dancer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Bakst, Léon
Léon Bakst
Russian artist
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Isadora Duncan dancing in an amphitheatre in Athens, photograph by Raymond Duncan, 1903.
Isadora Duncan
American dancer
Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova
Russian ballerina
Amar Ramasar
Amar Ramasar
American dancer