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Also Known As Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan
Born December 24, 1930 • Seattle • Washington
Died March 25, 1988 (aged 57) • New York City • New York
Founder Joffrey Ballet

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Glen Tetley
American dancer
Pillar of Fire
Antony Tudor
American dancer
Eliot Feld
American dancer
Dolin in Bluebeard, 1942
Sir Anton Dolin
British dancer
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Lincoln Kirstein
American dance patron, writer, and businessman
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American dancer
Rosella Hightower
American ballerina
Rudolf Nureyev performing in Flower Festival at Genzano.
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet-born dancer
Matthew Bourne
British choreographer and dancer
Sir Robert Helpmann
Australian dancer
Bournonville, oil on canvas by Louis Aumont, 1828; in the Theatre Museum, Copenhagen
August Bournonville
Danish dancer
Violette Verdy
Violette Verdy
French ballerina
Dame Ninette de Valois
Irish-born British dancer
Ida Rubinstein
Ida Rubinstein
Russian dancer
Frederick Ashton (left) and Robert Helpmann rehearsing their roles as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella, 1965.
Sir Frederick Ashton
British choreographer
Maurice Béjart.
Maurice Béjart
French dancer
Alicia Markova, 1954.
Dame Alicia Markova
British ballerina
Martins, Peter
Peter Martins
Danish dancer