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Born January 13, 1924 • France
Died July 10, 2011 (aged 87) • Geneva • Switzerland
Founder Ballets de Paris de Roland Petit
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Maurice Béjart.
Maurice Béjart
French dancer
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
Rasch, Albertina
Albertina Rasch
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
Sylvie Guillem
Sylvie Guillem
French dancer
Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar
Ukrainian-French dancer and choreographer
Suzanne Théodore Vaillande Douvillier
American dancer
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
Jean-Georges Noverre
Jean-Georges Noverre
French choreographer and dancer
Raoul-Auger Feuillet
French dancer
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
scene from Footlight Parade
Busby Berkeley
American director