Ballet Teachers - August Bournonville, George Balanchine, Tamaz Vashakidze, Mathilde Kschessinska, Marc Bogaerts, Enrico Cecchetti, Mari (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: August Bournonville, George Balanchine, Tamaz Vashakidze, Mathilde Kschessinska, Marc Bogaerts, Enrico Cecchetti, Marie Rambert, Todd Bolender, Fabio Grossi, Alexander Plisetski, Tatiana Stepanova, Alfredo Corvino, Tamara Karsavina, Suki Schorer, Agrippina Vaganova, Moscelyne Larkin, Lillian Covillo, Anna Plisetskaya, Celia Franca, Marie Taglioni, Igor Youskevitch, Alexandra Zaharias, Gamar Almaszadeh, Francois Perron, Aleksey Yermolayev, Jock Soto, Stanley Williams, Eliot Feld, Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, Serge Lifar, Alexandra Danilova, Yvonne Cartier, Anna Grabka, Mary Goodhew, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Douglas Boulivar, Senia Russakoff, Rebecca Wright, Olga Preobrajenska, Vera Volkova, Sulamith Messerer, Tatiana Semenova, Leyla Vakilova, Jean Gedeon, Pavel Gerdt, Allegra Kent, Mikhail Mordkin, Felia Doubrovska, Pierre Vladimiroff, Asaf Messerer, Charles Lisner, Eileen Keegan, Diana Adams, Elizaveta Gerdt, Vera Shvetsova, Maria Perini, Pino Mlakar, Varvara P. Mey, Lucette Aldous, Jean-Francois Coulon, Serafina Astafieva, Nikolai Fadeyechev, Azita Sahebjam, Attilio Labis, Askold Makarov, Edward Kelland-Espinosa, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux. Excerpt: George Balanchine (January 22, 1904 - April 30, 1983), born Giorgi Balanchivadze (Georgian: ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet. He was a choreographer known for his musicality; he expressed music with dance and worked extensively with Igor Stravinsky. Thirty-nine of his 400 ballets were choreographed to music by Stravinsky. Balanchine's family was composed largely of composers and soldiers. His father was the noted Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze (1862-1937), was one of the...