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Trained at the Bolshoi, she became a star of the Cairo Ballet and played a key role in making ballet accessible to people of all classes. Magda Saleh, a Bolshoi-trained [...]

Trained at the Bolshoi, she became a star of the Cairo Ballet and played a key role in making ballet accessible to people of all classes. Magda Saleh, a Bolshoi-trained [...]

Like her mother, she became a Graham dancer, and then oversaw acclaimed productions of the choreographer's works as well as Jerome Robbins' musical. Susan Kikuchi, a former dancer in Martha [...]

Like her mother, she became a Graham dancer, and then oversaw acclaimed productions of the choreographer’s works as well as Jerome Robbins’ musical. Susan Kikuchi, a former dancer in Martha [...]

A choreographer and dancer, she was associated with Graham for more than 50 years, and founded and directed the Martha Graham Ensemble, a student company. Yuriko Kikuchi, who under the [...]

After dancing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and other companies, he became its director. He was also well known for his staging of works by Antony Tudor. Donald Mahler, a [...]

A versatile artist who performed with the Paris Opera Ballet, she was the younger sister of the famed dancer Maria Tallchief. Marjorie Tallchief, an American ballerina who became an acclaimed [...]

Byline: Anna Kisselgoff When his career was ended by a bad knee, he and his wife and fellow dancer opened what became one of the most prestigious ballet academies in [...]

When his career was ended by a bad knee, he and his wife and fellow dancer opened what became one of the most prestigious ballet academies in America. Oleg Briansky, [...]

Byline: Anna Kisselgoff Celebrated for her strong technique and natural grandeur, she was a star soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet before finding a new audience in London. Violetta Elvin, who [...]

Celebrated for her strong technique and natural grandeur, she was a star soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet before finding a new audience in London. Violetta Elvin, who as a young [...]

She could be combative in one duet, a picture of stillness in another and witty in still another role. On Broadway, she danced in ''West Side Story.'' Charlene Gehm, a [...]

She founded the Pennsylvania Ballet, with George Balanchine as an adviser, and turned it into a nationally acclaimed company. Barbara Weisberger, who founded the Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia with a [...]

Byline: Anna Kisselgoff A powerful dancer, he and his first wife, the ballerina Nora Kovach, were among the first highly-publicized defectors from the Soviet Bloc. Istvan Rabovsky, a leading Hungarian [...]

A powerful dancer, he and his first wife, the ballerina Nora Kovach, were among the first highly-publicized defectors from the Soviet Bloc. Istvan Rabovsky, a leading Hungarian ballet dancer who [...]

Acclaimed for his noble style, he was also praised as a ''self-deprecating'' partner who showed off his ballerinas and did not compete with them. Nikolai Fadeyechev, one of the Bolshoi [...]

She was known as a fierce and powerful dancer. Her teaching style was similarly demanding. Helen McGehee, a powerful dancer in Martha Graham's company since the 1940s and a prominent [...]

In his reviews in The New York Times, he championed experimental choreographers emerging in the 1960s and '70s. Don McDonagh, a fervent supporter of experimental choreographers as a dance critic [...]

Brunilda Ruiz, an American ballerina of depth and passion who from the 1950s to the '70s excelled in a broad range of 20th-century choreography as a founding member of both [...]

Ruth Ann Koesun, a principal dancer in American Ballet Theater who epitomized the company's early eclectic profile by excelling in roles that ranged from Billy the Kid's Mexican sweetheart to [...]

Ruth Ann Koesun, a principal dancer in American Ballet Theater who epitomized the company's early eclectic profile by excelling in roles that ranged from Billy the Kid's Mexican sweetheart to [...]

Ruth Ann Koesun, a principal dancer in American Ballet Theater who epitomized the company's early eclectic profile by excelling in roles that ranged from Billy the Kid's Mexican sweetheart to [...]

Karin von Aroldingen, one of New York City Ballet's most distinctive ballerinas, who left an enduring impact on landmark experimental roles that George Balanchine choreographed for her, died on Friday [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSergei Vikharev, a Russian ballet master and former dancer in the Mariinsky Ballet who sparked a continuing debate over how to stage 19th-century works when he stunned international audiences [...]