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Born February 23, 1965 (age 60) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Praemium Imperiale (2015)

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Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar
Ukrainian-French dancer and choreographer
Maurice Béjart.
Maurice Béjart
French dancer
Christopher Wheeldon
British-born dancer and choreographer
Rudolf Nureyev performing in Flower Festival at Genzano.
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet-born 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
Sir Kenneth MacMillan
British choreographer
Leonid Lavrovsky
Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American dancer
Jules Perrot and Carlotta Grisi
Jules Perrot
French dancer and choreographer
Arthur Saint-Léon
French dancer and musician
Benjamin Millepied
French dancer and choreographer
Jean Coralli, engraving by Charles Vogt, c. 1852.
Jean Coralli
French dancer
Roland Petit
French dancer and choreographer
Suzanne Théodore Vaillande Douvillier
American dancer
Violette Verdy
Violette Verdy
French ballerina
Marie Sallé, engraving after Nicolas Lancret.
Marie Sallé
French dancer
Dauberval, with Mlle Allard, in Sylvie, 1766; wood engraving by Jules Huyot, 19th century, after a contemporary work by an unknown artist
Jean Dauberval
French dancer
Pierre Beauchamp
French ballet dancer
Charles Didelot
French dancer