Marius Petipa

Marius Petipa

male
le corsaire, "Father of Classical Ballet", The Sleeping Beauty Ballet, Marius Ivanovich Petipa, The Awakening of Flora, The Pharaoh's Daughter…The Calvary Halt, The Talisman, TheSleepingBeauty, The Nutcracker
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa on 11 March, 1818 in Marseille, France - died in Gurzuf in the Crimea, Russian Empire,...
Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault

male, deceased (1703)
Le Petit Chaperon rouge, Barbe Bleue, Peau d'Âne, Cendrillon, Les Fées, les souhaits ridicules…TheSleepingBeauty, The Ridiculous Wishes, Ricky of the Tuft, The Walt Disney Company, sleeping beauty
Charles Perrault was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, and whose best known tales include "Le Petit...
Peter Martins

Peter Martins

male, 63 years old
dancer, TheSleepingBeauty, The Nutcracker, Royal Danish Ballet, swan lake, Danish…School of the Royal Danish
Peter Martins (October 27, 1946 -) is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. He danced with the Royal Danish Ballet and the New York City...
Alina Cojocaru

Alina Cojocaru

female, 28 years old
TheSleepingBeauty, Ballerina, From Bucharest, Royal Ballet, Sir Frederick Ashton, The Nutcracker…sleeping beauty
Alina Cojocaru (born May 27, 1981) is a female principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London. She was born in Bucharest, Romania. She was...
Ben Stevenson

Ben Stevenson

male
La Esmeralda Pas de Deux, ballet dancer, National Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater, Arts Educational School, John F. Kennedy Center…TheSleepingBeauty, director of the Houston Ballet
Ben Stevenson, O.B.E., is a native of Portsmouth, England, along with being a former ballet dancer with Britain's Royal Ballet and English National...
Michael Somes

Michael Somes

male, deceased (1994)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire, horsley, ballet dancer, Danseur, ballet, the ed sullivan show…Commander of the British Empire, The Nutcracker, TheSleepingBeauty, The Little Ballerina actor
Michael George Somes (born 28 September 1917, Horsley, Gloucestershire, England; died 18 November 1994, London) was a leading English ballet...
Enrico Cecchetti

Enrico Cecchetti

male, deceased (1928)
dancer, Italian, Russian ballet, choreography, ballet, Ballet teacher…TheSleepingBeauty, The Sleeping Beauty Ballet
Enrico Cecchetti was an Italian ballet dancer, founder of the Cecchetti method. The son of two dancers, he was born in the costuming room of the...
Cynthia Gregory

Cynthia Gregory

female, 63 years old
Prima ballerina assoluta, ballet dancer, The Eternal Idol, Coppélia, En pointe, assoluta…TheSleepingBeauty
Cynthia Gregory is an American ballerina whom Rudolph Nureyev called America's "prima ballerina assoluta". She was born in 1946 in Los Angeles.
Beryl Grey

Beryl Grey

female, 82 years old
ballet dancer, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, TheSleepingBeauty, DLitt, Ed.D, London Festival Ballet…The Three-cornered Hat
Dame Beryl Elizabeth Grey, née Groom, DBE, DMus, DLitt, Ed.D, FRSA is a British ballet dancer and ballerina. She began dance classes while a...
Irina Dvorovenko

Irina Dvorovenko

female
American Ballet Theatre dancer, From Kiev, American Ballet Theatre, The Nutcracker, Giselle, TheSleepingBeauty…The Snow Maiden, the taming of the shrew, the merry widow
Irina Dvorovenko is a classical ballet dancer. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She began her ballet training at the age of 10 at the Kiev Ballet...