biography
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| lived:
| (1869–1937)
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| biography:
| Dancer, ballet master, and choreographer, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. He trained at the Imperial Ballet School (1888), joined the Mariinsky Theatre, where he was a principal for 20 years, and became director there in 1905. His pupils included Nijinsky. In 1923 he moved to Paris to become ballet master of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company, and finally settled in London (1926), where he established his own school and taught, among others, Margot Fonteyn. |
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