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Ballerina (1966 film)


Ballerina also known as The Copenhagen Ballet is the story of a young girl Mette Sorensen (played by Mette Hønningen) who aspires to be a dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, against the wishes of her mother but with the support of her musician father and her mentor, the famous ballerina Kirsten Holm (played by Kirsten Simone). The story opens with Mette greeting Kirsten at the airport following the latter's return from a successful dance tour. They ride into the city together where Kirsten notices that Mette is slightly down-
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Ballerina skirt


Ballerina skirt is a full skirt that reaches to mid-calf or just above the ankles, worn as a costume in a ballet performance. It is often made up of multiple layers of fabric. It was a popular casual skirt style during the 1950s. Ballerina skirts have been a consistently popular length for formal dresses, especially for young women.The most persistent image of a ballerina skirt is that worn by the most famous ballerina Anna Pavlova. Early ballerina skirts were heavy, bulky and unwieldy, severely restricting the dancer's
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La Sylphide


stayed on in Paris to teach the girl, who reminded her of herself as a young woman. In 1892, Marius Petipa mounted a revival of Taglioni's original "La Sylphide" for the Imperial Ballet, with additional music by Riccardo Drigo. A variation Drigo composed for the ballerina Varvara Nikitina in Petipa's version is today the traditional solo danced by the lead ballerina of the famous "Paquita" Grand Pas Classique. In 1972, a new version of "La Sylphide," based on the Taglioni version, was choreographed
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August Albo


works from the old school of painting, he started painting with more realism. He was a very versatile artist, and could paint any given subject with incredible detail. He painted all over the world, particularly in cities with renowned ballets, such as Paris, Moscow, and Berlin. His most famous work was "Free as the Wind", a painting depicting running horses. There are believed to be only 5 of these original "Free as the Wind" paintings in existence. He is also known for his ballerina
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Blood Bath


in the person of an avant-garde ballerina. In Venice, California, student Daisy leaves a club alone after having an argument with her beatnik boyfriend Max. Walking through the deserted streets, she stops to admire some gruesome paintings in a gallery window painted by artist Antonio Sordi, who coincidentally also comes by to look in on his "lost children." After a friendly conversation, Sordi convinces the young woman to pose nude for him that night. At his bell-tower studio, Sordi is possessed by the spirit
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Gary Burne


job. When renowned French ballerina Yvette Chauviré came to Johannesburg as guest artist, Burne danced as Albrecht to her famous interpretation of Giselle in April 1963. He also formed a fortuitous partnership with ballerina Phyllis Spira, as they seemed ideally suited to each other. With this new, young company they danced leading roles in "Swan Lake, Sylvia," and "Casse Noisette" ("The Nutcracker"). Their stay in Johannesburg was brief, however, as an unfortunate salary dispute led to their defection to the company
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Alicia Markova "The Dying Swan"


Alicia Markova "The Dying Swan" (also known as The Dying Swan, but not to be confused with another painting with the same title by the same artist started in 1949 and completed in 1951) is a painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff painted in 1949. In this portrait fantasy, Tretchikoff has identified the prima ballerina Alicia Markova in her most famous role - "The Dying Swan" - from which, as did Anna Pavlova, she has become inseparable in the minds of all lovers of the ballet; it is for this
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Hanan Tork


She started her career as a ballerina and completed her studies at the Cairo Ballet Institute in 1993. She then became a member of the Cairo Ballet Group and soon after moved to the Classical Ballet Group. She began her acting career when the famous director, Khairy Beshara saw her, and offered her the chance to act alongside Nadia Al-Gindi in the 1991 movie "Raghba Motawahesha". After that the young ballerina was thirsty for more and received her next role in the television series "Be’r Saba’" with the
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Theatro da Paz


de Alencar e Gonçalves Dias, who introduced the indianismo in Brazil. In the noble hall, next to a giant-sized crystal mirror, remain the busts of maestros Carlos Gomes and Henrique Gurjão. In Theatro da Paz, Carlos Gomes ran his most famous opera, "O Guarani", and Russian ballerina Ana Pavlova also touched its stage with her ballet shoes. Decoration was planned by Italian Domenico de Angelis who also decorated Teatro Amazonas in Manaus. He also painted the theater's panel in its spectacle room's roof,
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Hilton Cheong-Leen


1979. The couple had two sons and two daughters, Reginald (born in 1951), Susan (born in 1953), Franklin (born in 1958) and Flora (born in 1959). Their fourth child, Flora Cheong-Leen is a famous ballerina and designer who was married to actor Russell Wong. He married his second wife, Nancy Gan Wan Geok, in 1988 but later divorced. Gan was a classical pianist and porcelain painter educated at Trinity College London and had held exhibitions of her porcelain paintings in
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American Beauty/American Psycho (song)


ballerina and a peculiar child named Jake Karlen (who is on the cover for the album with the same title). The boy has the American flag painted on his face in black. Filmed with a gritty, shaky cinematography, the ballerina represents the "American Beauty" but is really the "American Psycho" and the boy represents the "Psycho" but is really the "Beauty". In the beginning, the boy tries to destroy a music box with a ballerina in it with a sledgehammer, but he is
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Little Dancer (musical)


for the 5th Avenue Theatre production includes Tiler Peck (Marie), Terrence Mann (Degas), Louise Pitre (Adult Marie), Dee Hoty (Mary Cassat) and Karen Ziemba (Martine Van Goethem), with direction and choreography by Stroman. The musical is inspired by the story of Marie van Goethem, a young ballerina who posed for Edgar Degas. Marie became, inadvertently, the most famous dancer in the world. Torn by her family's poverty, her debt to the artist, and the lure of wealthy
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Gerda Wegener


where people found her work controversial. She held exhibitions of her work at popular art studios around Europe. In 1925, she won a prize for her artwork in competition at the 1925 World Fair in Paris. She was known for her illustrations created for advertisements and was also a sought-after portrait painter. She befriended Ulla Poulsen (1905-2001), a famous Danish ballerina, who became a frequent model for her paintings. She and her spouse were also close friends with artist Rudolph Tegner and his wife Elna.
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Eduardo Vernazza


. At the beginning of the 1940s, he was introduced to Daisy Massioti, a ballerina who presented her own choreographies at Theater Solís. He created a sketch of her entitled "Winged Ballerina", which appeared in "El Día". They were married on 11 November 1944. Eduardo dedicated all his exhibitions to her. He also incorporated her likeness into many of his ballet paintings. He sketched at the theater at night and painted in his studio until dawn. During these years, he consolidated his career as a drawer
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Jeff Koons


high chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating and live flowering plants. At the center of each scene in the "Antiquity" paintings (2009–2013) is a famous ancient or classical sculpture, meticulously rendered in oil paint and scaled to the same size as the sculptures. The equally detailed backdrops include an Arcadian vision. In "Ballerinas" (2010–2014), Koons depicts figurines of dancers, derived from decorative porcelain, at the imposing scale of classical sculpture. For the season 2007/2008 in the Vienna State Opera Jeff Koons designed the
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The Band Wagon


other. Eventually, it all proves too much for Tony, and he walks out. Gaby follows, to meet him privately. In his hotel room, she comments that the paintings by famous artists on the wall are better reproductions than usual in a hotel; he says they are his own property, and are originals. She recognizes a painting of ballerinas as an early Degas. Tony and Gaby put their troubles aside, go for a horse-drawn carriage ride, dance together, and realize they can work together after
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Alfred Young Man


was his painting teacher for two years (1966–68). The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts retains a considerable number of Young Man's paintings in its collection from the five years he spent there. Young Man went on to study painting, film history and photography at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London in London, England for four years (1968–72) where he met many famous and influential artists and musicians, amongst these were Pop artist's Richard Hamilton and David Hockney who were visiting artists and who stopped
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Giovanna Baccelli


Giovanna Baccelli, real name Giovanna Francesca Antonia Giuseppe Zanerini, (1753–1801) was a Venetian ballerina who was the principal ballerina at the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Giovanna Baccelli was born Giovanna Francesca Antonia Giuseppe Zanerini in Venice in 1753. She took her mother's name of Baccelli as her stage name. She was the principal ballerina at the King's Theatre, Haymarket. She was the mistress of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset. Dorset commissioned a painting of her (above) in 1780–81 from Thomas Gainsborough, which
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Lubo Kristek


dynamic aspect and the carrier of the change. She represents the same form of dynamism in his painting as well as happenings. Kristek's ballerina evolves in time and reflects the development of postmodern society. In the painting "Billiards for Life and the Ballerina" from 1987, she personifies the vitality in the world of constant metamorphosis. However in the 2010s, the meaning of the symbol shifts and the ballerina is often the last witness of the destruction. In the happening "The Way of the Cross" (2014),
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The Loves of Mars and Venus


influential than many realise. It may well have been seen by the young French ballerina Marie Sallé, who would herself later experiment with narrative and expressive dancing. Sallé, of course, influenced the choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre when he came to create his "ballets d’action". They led to the story ballets of the romantic period and onwards to the narrative dance works for which English ballet became famous in the 20th century. The Weaver Dance Company, now The Weaver Ensemble, was founded in 2016, initially to produce a
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Mabel Esther Allan


children: the Wood Street Gang from Liverpool and the boys and girls of Almond House flats who attend Pine Street School. The Drina Books are a series of novels about a young girl who wishes to be a ballerina. Drina lost both her parents at a very young age and lives with her grandparents. Her mother was a prima ballerina, but Drina's grandmother blames ballet for the death of her daughter and hence dissuades Drina from dancing. However, in the second book Drina gets her wish and goes to the fictional Dominick
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43rd Chess Olympiad


Mikeladze State Symphony Orchestra, ballerina Nina Ananiashvili choreographed a ballet performance, and Sukhieshvili ensemble presented a new dance. Among others who made appearance on the stage were famous Georgian singers Nino Katamadze, Liza Bagrationi and Giorgi Ushikishvili, baritone Lado Ataneli, violist Giorgi Tsagareli, the indie rock band Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz, the folklore ensemble Lashari and the Batumi cappella. The last part of the ceremony was marked with the drawing of colours and was assisted by the batumi Chess Olympiad Goodwill Ambassador Vishwanathan Anand and Georgian chess player Nana
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Rachel Messerer


sister Sulamith Messerer (ballerina) and brother Asaf Messerer (ballet dancer, choreographer) became famous and started a dynasty of outstanding ballet dancers and ballet masters. She married well-known Russian diplomat Mikhail Plisetski (1899–1938) and they had three children: famous ballerina Maya Plisetskaya (1925-2015), talented balletmaster Alexander Plisetski (1931–1985) and principal dancer Azari Plisetski (1937). And granddaughter (1971-) Anna Plisetskaya, another ballerina. Rachel Messerer graduated from Institute of Cinematography in 1925 (class of Lev Kuleshov)
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Rukmini Devi Arundale


and also forging friendships with the educator Maria Montessori, and the poet James Cousins. In 1923, she became the President of the All-India Federation of Young Theosophists, and the President of the World Federation of Young Theosophists in 1925. In 1928, the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova visited Bombay and the Arundale couple went to her performance, and later happened to travel on the same ship as her, to Australia where she was to perform next; over the course of the journey their friendship grew, and soon Rukmini
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The Shepherd of the Hills


by Young Matt and Sammy, and discovers that The Shepherd's prediction had come true – the railroad was blasting away nearby mountains, but he had died while the surveyors were in the area before construction had started (and was buried at Dewey Bald). It was then that, as requested by The Shepherd, the veiled painting is revealed to the young artist, who then becomes excited, knowing it immediately as Mad Howard's famous lost painting (though not revealed in the story it is implied that it is the painting
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Dušanka Sifnios


slavne balerine" in 2013 ("Notes of a famous ballerina") even though she stated in an interview that she doesn’t think of her as a ballerina but as a “woman who dances”. She received an award for life achievement, the highest accolade of the “Association of the ballet artists of Serbia” in 1998 and was a recipient of the “Special recognition for artistic contribution to the national culture of Serbia“, colloquially styled "national pension" in 2007. Madlenianum Opera has named one of its
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Angelina Ballerina (TV series)


Angelina Ballerina is a British animated children's television series, based on the "Angelina Ballerina" series of children's books by author Katharine Holabird and illustrator Helen Craig. The series is about Angelina Mouseling, a young mouse who loves to dance ballet, and her family and classmates. Finty Williams performed the voice of Angelina, and her real-life mother Judi Dench performed the voice of Miss Lilly, her ballet teacher. The show had 40 15-minute-long episodes, as well as 3 longer specials, which first aired
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List of Sanrio characters


sometimes included in ballerina products. The duet are composed of two little twin sister bunnies: Ballet-Usa and Prima-Usa, who are ballerina-geniuses, and through the ballet room mirror, they bring their graceful dance for all of us in the human world. The are a group of animal characters created in 2008 as a joint-venture between Sanrio and Sega Toys. There are 42 characters in the franchise and each of the animals are named after famous Birthstones, Minerals and Jewels. They each have a different
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Pierina Legnani


Pierina Legnani (September 30, 1868 – November 15, 1930) was an Italian ballerina considered one of the greatest ballerinas of all time. Legnani was born on September 30, 1863, in Milan and originally studied with famous ballet dancer Caterina Beretta at La Scala, where she developed her technical expertise. Her professional career took off when she appeared as prima ballerina in the Casati ballet, Salandra, at Alhambra Theatre in London. She was titled prima ballerina for La Scala in 1892, before moving to St Petersburg in 1892
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Alexander Plisetski


rehabilitated on 3 March 1956. His mother, Rachel Messerer (1902–1993, also known as "Ra Messerer"), was a silent film actress. Shortly after her husband was arrested, she was sent to a labour camp in Kazakhstan named the “”. During her imprisonment, Alexander stayed with the family of her brother, Asaf Messerer, while his elder sister, Maya Plisetskaya, who later became a famous ballerina, was placed in the custody of Sulamith Messerer. In 1969 Alexander married a ballerina, Marianna Sedova.
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Alan Carter (dancer)


Who Loved Redheads" (1955), again starring Moira Shearer. Following that, he was ballet master for two Hollywood films. "Invitation to the Dance" (1956) is an anthology of three stories, each featuring Gene Kelly. Other dancers in the cast include Tamara Toumanova, Igor Youskevitch, Diana Adams, Tommy Rall, and Carol Haney. "Ballerina" (also 1956), directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, stars Elisabeth Muller as a famous ballerina stricken with polio and worried that her understudy will usurp her
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Su Muy Key


Especialista en señoras"(1951). As a vedette and burlesque performer, she worked in numerous theaters and cabarets of the time. Her famous night show consisted of painting her body with silver paint and remaining immobile as a statue, and then dancing oriental dances. In 1949 it was rumored that she would be the star of a film titled "Poor butterfly", which never was concretized. Possibly in this year Armando Herrera, the "photographer of the stars" and who had become famous for portraying Agustín Lara and the young "
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Semen Zhivago


Semen Afanasyevich Zhivago (, 1807–1863) was a Russian historical painter. The son of a merchant from Ryazan, he taught himself how to paint from a young age. In 1826, he presented his work to Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, who accepted the young man under her patronage and entered him into the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. After obtaining two silver medals, Zhivago finished his formation and soon left for his own calculation, into Italy, where he painted copies of famous Italian paintings for a living.
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The Young Bull


Potter, who was born in November 1625, was only 22 when he completed it; he died in 1654, before he reached 30. The painting was highly admired in the 18th and 19th centuries; in the 1870s the French artist and critic Eugène Fromentin asserted confidently that it, Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" and his "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" (also in the Mauritshuis) were the three most famous paintings in the Netherlands. The painting was enlarged by Potter, who added extra strips of
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Wang Yani


included a painting done when she was three entitled "Kitty." By the time she was sixteen, six different books had been written about Wang Yani. They told the story of an innocent girl who loved to paint monkeys, baboons, and cats, and who grew into a world-famous young teen who painted as curators of the Smithsonian watched her create beautiful birds and flowers with her dancing brush. Wang Yani also exhibited in Germany and grew to love that country in her middle teen years. Studying the German language
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John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset


Prime Minister and his mistress Anne Parsons had the influence, if not the position, of a First Lady in her country. The Duke divorced his wife on the 23 March 1769. Parsons may have become the First Minister's wife had he not discovered that Parsons was having an affair with Sackville. Sackville's best-known and most enduring mistress was the Venetian ballerina Giovanna Zanerini, who was the principal ballerina at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, and used the stage name Giovanna Baccelli. Dorset commissioned a painting of her
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Marius Petipa


the dances in his older works. In 1904 Petipa coached the great Anna Pavlova for her performance in "Giselle" and her début in "Paquita". For the performance, Petipa created a new variation for the ballerina to Drigo's music that is still danced today by the lead Ballerina in the famous "Paquita Grand Pas Classique". According to the Ballerina Olga Preobrajenska, "" ... by the time I entered [the Imperial Ballet] in 1889, (Petipa) was a true master. I have always found
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Nana (painting)


Nana is a painting by French painter Édouard Manet. It was completed in 1877 and was refused at the Salon of Paris the same year. Manet decided to show his painting it in the window of a shop on the Boulevard des Capucines, one of Paris’s main street. The painting gathered attention and crowds during its exhibition, Manet being very famous in Paris. The work is now at the Kunsthalle Hamburg art museum in Germany. The painting shows a young and beautiful woman who stands before a mirror with two extinguished candles
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Maniya Barredo


multiple times with the famous Mikhail Baryshnikov, toured with the Stars of the World Ballet upon special invitation, and performed the role of Giselle at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Competition in 1978. After this performance, Barredo was honored with the Gawad CCP Para Sining Award of Excellence given to her by the Philippine President. Because of this, the renowned ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn, gave Barredo the distinction of Prima Ballerina. Barredo then continued to dance as the Philippine Ballet Theater's Prima Ballerina. After this career, Barredo
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Little Dancer of Fourteen Years


the Little Dancer". In 2014, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. premiered the stage musical, "Little Dancer", inspired by the story of the young ballerina immortalized by Edgar Degas in his famous sculpture. In March of 2019 a reworked version of the musical, now called "Marie, Dancing Still" premiered at the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle. On September 12, 2016, Dr. Gregory Hedberg presented a paper entitled "Unraveling the Mysteries of Degas’ "Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen
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Violet (Hole song)


featured in a tutu on the ballet stage with the girls. These scenes are integrated with footage of the band performing the song. The juxtaposition of the young ballerinas onstage illustrates the dynamic between dancing as an art form and dancing for the sake of others' visual and sexual gratification. The ballerinas featured in the video are also possibly referential to Love herself, who took ballet classes for a great portion of her childhood (she remarks she insisted on it), and later ended up working as a stripper in her teenage and
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Giants Are Small


Ross. The show included two works by Igor Stravinsky, "The Fairy's Kiss" (original title: "Le baiser de la fée") and "Petrushka", as well as one excerpt of Louis Durey's "Neige". New York City Ballet's Sara Mearns was the star ballerina, representing various characters throughout the show, in a choreography by Karole Armitage. The production featured a mix of music, live filmmaking and puppetry, and ballet; it illustrated the journey of a young ballerina who gets caught
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Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula


this ancestor who sang and stamped out songs from his creation of that storm, which Warangkula learned as a young man. The famous Honey Ant murals being painted on a school at Papunya in 1971 is considered the founding moment of the contemporary Western Desert art movement. Warangkula was involved in this painting, which opened a door to another arena for the other seven men who took part, namely Yuendumu Men's Museum, which opened in July 1971. In 1974 these murals were painted over at the order of a local bureaucrat.
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A Ballerina's Tale


. Maya Chung for NBCnews.com wrote: ""A Ballerina's Tale" is one film that is making that impact. The documentary gives an in-depth picture of Copeland's struggles with being black in a predominantly white Ballet world and it chronicles her experience recovering from a leg fracture - one that could've stopped her dream of becoming a principal dancer." Amy Brady from "The Village Voice" commented: "In "A Ballerina's Tale", director Nelson George paints a moving portrait of Copeland that underscores her
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Betty Price (arts advisor)


state agency to go online with the coming of the technological age due to Price's staff, which allowed the public a greater chance to get involved with the arts. Price was made responsible for commissioning artwork and murals that improved the bare Capitol walls. Price aided in the commissioning of Mike Larsen to paint "Flight of the Spirit," a mural painted on the rotunda that honored all five of Oklahoma's American Indian world-class ballerinas. Five years later, the ballerinas were brought back to the Capitol to be named
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Tatiana Riabouchinska


" and "The Romantic Adventures of an Italian Ballerina and a Marquis". In Paris, she was seen by choreographer and ballet master George Balanchine, who quickly signed her for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, then being organized by Colonel Wassily de Basil and his associates. She joined that company after the American tour of La Chauve-Souris. She and two other young dancers in the company became known as the Baby Ballerinas. In 1932, in her first season with the de Basil company, Riabouchinska created the role
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Evelyn Cisneros


Evelyn Cisneros (born November 18, 1958, in Long Beach, California) is an American ballerina. Cisneros, who is Mexican American, is the first prima ballerina in the United States of Hispanic heritage. As a young child her mother had her take ballet classes in an attempt to overcome her penchant for shyness. She began to study ballet at eight years of age. Cisneros received a scholarship for the summer in 1974 to the School of American Ballet. She did an internship with the San Francisco Ballet in 1976.
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Robert Ginzler


Ginzler was invited by Sid Ramin to arrange for TV on the phenomenally-successful "The Milton Berle Show", where the two found steady, lucrative work under the musical direction of Alan Roth and Victor Young until June 1956. This was the foundation of a long-standing productive and artistic partnership between the two orchestrators. Ginzler's first lead orchestrator credit was for 1958's "Oh, Captain!" featuring Tony Randall in a famous extended dance sequence with the ballerina Alexandra Danilova. When Ramin moved to the record label
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Pas de Quatre (Perrot)


Marie Taglioni. (The fifth great Romantic ballerina of the time, Fanny Elssler, had been invited to take part but declined to do so; she was replaced by the young Lucile Grahn who accepted without hesitation.) "Pas de Quatre" captured the essence of the Romantic style as the ballerinas danced with demure lightness, delicacy, and poise. The steps demand that each area of classical ballet technique is executed. These areas include adagio movements, petite allegro, grand allegro, fast footwork, graceful changes of position,
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Valentina Kozlova


Valentina Kozlova (born August 26, 1957) is a Soviet-born Russian American ballerina and founder of Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition. In 1979, while on tour as a young principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, Kozlova defected to the United States, where she became a principal dancer with New York City Ballet and later, opened her own ballet school. Perhaps best known as a lyrical and expressive ballerina, Kozlova is also renowned as a private coach, producing students who have gone on to garner prestigious prizes and positions
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Visionary Heads


Who Built the Pyramids", "The Portrait of a Man who instructed Mr Blake in Painting &c in his Dreams", etc. The most famous of that series is Blake's painting of "The Ghost of a Flea", made after the "Visionary Head of The Ghost of a Flea". William Blake claimed to have seen visions from his young age throughout his life, and in these visions he was visited by many spirits of people from the remote past as well as by his deceased friends from whom
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Sofya Skya


Sofya Skya (born Sofya Andreyevna Arzhakovskaya in 1987) is a Russian ballerina and actress/directress. Sofya Arzhakovskaya was born on August 12, 1987 in Leningrad, Soviet Russia. Her grandmother, Emma Shchetinina was a famous harpist and teacher while her father was a dental technician. Arzhakovskaya began attending dance classes at a young age and when she turned nine, she got enrolled into the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. However, her experience with the ballet didn't last long and a year later she got dropped out. Following
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Thomas Cole


attention of John Trumbull, Asher B. Durand, and William Dunlap. Among the paintings was a landscape called "View of Fort Ticonderoga from Gelyna". Trumbull was especially impressed with the work of the young artist and sought him out, bought one of his paintings, and put him into contact with a number of his wealthy friends including Robert Gilmor of Baltimore and Daniel Wadsworth of Hartford, who became important patrons of the artist. Cole was primarily a painter of landscapes, but he also painted allegorical works. The most famous
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Giorgio Matteo Aicardi


his young scholar the taste for a more personalised style of painting. While studying at the Accademia, he attended the studio of Giuseppe Pennasilico, a most famous Neapolitan painter of the time, who appreciated and encouraged his pupil to paint "en plein air." In 1906 Aicardi, aged 15, painted his first "fresco" of Santa Teresa (his sister Ernesta was his model), which still can be seen in the dome of "San Biagio Basilica" in his native Finalborgo (Savona). Before his 20th
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The Shepherd of the Hills


's common history (which only The Shepherd knows at the outset) involves Old Matt's daughter, who died while giving birth to her son (and Old Matt's grandson), Pete Howard: unbeknownst to the Matthews, Mad Howard is Pete's father, and thus The Shepherd is Pete's grandfather. Years earlier, Mad Howard returned home after spending time painting in the mountains, and one of his paintings became famous, as did he. That painting was of a young girl, pretty, standing beside a creek
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Le Corsaire


to late 19th century. The ballet has many celebrated passages which are often excerpted from the full-length work and performed independently: the scene "Le Jardin animé", the "Pas d’esclave", the "Pas de trois des odalisques", and the so-called "Le Corsaire pas de deux", which is among classical ballet's most famous and performed excerpts. "Le Corsaire" was created primarily for the talents of the famous Italian ballerina Carolina Rosati, who was then the Opéra's reigning "Prima
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Frits Thaulow


artists to paint in Skagen in the north of Jutland, soon to become famous for its Skagen Painters. He arrived there in 1879 with his friend Christian Krohg who persuaded him to spend the summer and autumn there. They arrived from Norway in Thaulow's little boat. Thaulow, who had specialized in marine painting turned to Skagen's favourite subjects, the fishermen and the boats on the shore. After his stay in Skagen, Thaulow returned to Norway in 1880. He became one of the leading young figures in the Norwegian art
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V.


Stencil commit a robbery in perilous circumstances, and then, in late September, they embark for Malta with Paola on board the "Susanna Squaducci". In this chapter V. is entranced by a young ballerina, Mélanie l'Heuremaudit. The story centers on a riotous ballet performance, almost certainly modeled in part on the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring". The performance centers on a virgin sacrifice by impalement. The young ballerina fails to wear her protective equipment and actually dies by impalement in the course of the
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Nino Cesarini


more than thirty pipes a day. According to Peyrefitte he had built a special smoking room in Villa Lysis, called the China Room. Will H. L. Ogrinc supposes in his work that as Nino grew up, the Baron d'Adelswärd-Fersen sought relationships with other young boys. As proof of this he uses Plüschow's famous photograph in which a naked young man is seen lying on a sofa in the interior of Villa Lysis, on one of whose walls the famous painting that Höcker painted to exalt the beauty of Nino can be
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Rolando Sarabia


so famous among young people in Cuba, that according to Sarah Kaufman of "The Washington Post" his fans "glued him the suffix of endearment, -ita, onto his name like a kiss." In 2003, Sarabia left Cuba, after Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso refused to allow him to join the Boston Ballet where his younger brother Daniel Sarabia was dancing as a corps member. He has performed with renowned dancers as Maya Plisetskaya, Patrick Dupont, Farouk Ruzimatov, Alicia Alonso, Tamara Rojo among many others. Prix Benois
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Nikolai Timkov


of Arts. He studied with Mikhail Bernshtein, Arcady Rylov, Alexander Lubimov, and Vladimir Serov. In 1939 Nikolai Timkov graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Isaak Brodsky workshop with the rank of artist of painting. His degree work was a painting titled "The Day off in suburb". In one year with Timkov Institute graduates Piotr Belousov, Mikhail Kozell, Lev Orekhov, Aleksei Gritsai, Elena Skuin, Gleb Verner, Lia Ostrova, Boris Sherbakov, and other young artists who later became famous Soviet
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Yekaterina Geltzer


Yekaterina Vasilyevna Geltzer (November 2, 1876 - December 12, 1962) was a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet who danced in the theatre from 1898 to 1935. She is the daughter of the famous Russian dancer Vasily Geltzer. She worked with Marius Petipa, Sergei Diaghilev, and Reinhold Glière. After the 1917 Russian Revolution, she helped to preserve the art of ballet in Russia. She was the first ballet dancer to receive the title of "People's Artist of Russia" (1925). Her most famous post
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Salome (opera)


who have tackled the role in the last half-century. Each of these singers has brought her own interpretation to the title character. Perhaps the two most famous recordings of the opera are Herbert von Karajan's EMI recording with Hildegard Behrens and Sir Georg Solti's Decca recording with Birgit Nilsson as Salome. In addition to the vocal and physical demands, the role also calls for the agility and gracefulness of a prima ballerina when performing the opera's famous "Dance of the Seven Veils". Finding one individual with all of
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Ninette de Valois


company for three years, performing around Europe and being promoted to the rank of "Soloist", and creating roles in some of the company's most famous ballets, including "Les biches" and "Le Train Bleu". During this time, she was also mentor to Alicia Markova who was only a child at the time, but would eventually be recognised as a Prima Ballerina Assoluta and one of the most famous English dancers of all time. Later in her life, Valois said that everything she knew about how to
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Maung Maung Gyi


Paul’s, he became an agricultural officer for the colonial government, which offered him the chance to tour the country, painting its scenes in his free time. As a youth who had traveled to England in such a daring way, Maung Maung Gyi became famous in Burma, as a model to young Burmese youth who were so provincial and timid that they often feared leaving their villages. He became notorious in other respects. Although he developed a passion for Western-style painting, he had a great resentment of his colonial
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Alfred Young Man


by his painting studio on random occasions. While at the Slade, Young Man was tutored and mentored for two years (1970–1972) by Bernard Cohen; another tutor was landscape painter William Townsend (1909–1973). The director of the Slade during Young Man's time at the school was Sir William Coldstream, founder of the Euston Road School. While in London, Young Man met Jimi Hendrix just a month before the famous rock musician died in September 1970, introduced to Hendrix by Steven Stills of CSN&Y who was cutting what Stills
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She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina


She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina is the seventh album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 1971. Her previous album "Illuminations" having sold so poorly as to lose Vanguard a considerable sum of money, the label placed considerable pressure on Sainte-Marie to come up with something that would sell in larger numbers. To this effect, "She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina" was recorded with guitar from Ry Cooder and Neil Young and assistance from the latter's backing band Crazy Horse. There was also a
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Sophie Matisse


. In these paintings, Sophie would reproduce the recognizable settings of famous paintings, always omitting the figures; as if the models had "stepped out for the moment". Famous works of Vermeer also figured prominently in other early entries to the series; "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher", "The Art of Painting", and "Girl with a Pearl Earring" were all reinterpreted by Sophie in the late 1990s, minus the figures portrayed by Vermeer. Although she had previously participated in group exhibitions in New York
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Abram Zaborov


of his artistic career. In 1935 he became the father of the future famous artist . Among Zaborov's pre-WWII paintings are "New people, new city" and "Chapaev". The latter was demonstrated at the Young Painters of the Soviet Union Exhibition dedicated to 20 years of Komsomol and took place in 1939. This painting made him famous in the Soviet Union. In 1940 at the Exhibition "10 days of Belarusian Art", Abram Zaborov presented the painting "Where is my Son?". The reproduction
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La Scala Theatre Ballet School


Regia Accademia di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala" (Royal Imperial Dance Academy of the Teatro alla Scala). For many years after its foundation the school offered two courses, of the total duration of eight years; the first consisted in apprenticeship, the second of specialization studies. The classes were accompanied by a violinist. Many famous dancers have been directors of the school. Among them, the famous Carlo Blasis, who joined the school in 1838 and directed it for 15 years, and the Italian "ballerina" Caterina Beretta
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James Hayllar


he was a member. He first became known as a portrait painter but later turned his brush to genre art, often featuring pretty young girls (see illustration); his work became very popular. With George Dunlop Leslie (who also lived in Wallingford at the same time), he painted a large portrait of Queen Victoria to celebrate her Golden Jubilee in 1887 - the painting now hangs in Wallingford Town Hall. He married Edith Phoebe Cavell (1827–1899), the aunt of Edith Cavell - the famous British nurse who was
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Cholla (horse)


Cholla (born May 20, 1985 – died March 22, 2013 in Nevada, United States) was a mustang-Quarter Horse mix known as the painting horse for his very special ability. Because of his wild temper, the cowboys named him after the cholla cactus. After being tamed by cowboys with the sacking out method, at the age of 5 the horse was bought by Renee Chambers, a trained ballerina, who succeeded in gaining his trust. Many years later, in 2004, his ability to paint was discovered
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Stephen Flaherty


show premiered at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater in October 2014. The cast included Rebecca Luker, Boyd Gaines and Tiler Peck. The musical is inspired by true events and focuses on the relationship between a young ballerina and 19th century French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas. Much of the action is set in the Paris Opera Ballet. A re-working of the show, now titled "Marie, Dancing Still" (after the name of the young ballerina),had its west coast premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre in March 2019
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William Pitt Union


young upstart for the remainder of the tour. The ballerina was so distraught that she took her own life that night, ashamed and humiliated that she would be replaced by the young understudy. It is now said if one were to ever take a nap or fall asleep for whatever reason in the Tansky Family Lounge, also known as the Red Room, they will always wake up just in time for whatever exam, class, meeting, appointment, etc. they may have missed. The Prima Ballerina haunts the room to make
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Lucy Boynton


day of [her] life". In 2007, she was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actress, for "Miss Potter". She went on to play Posy Fossil in 2007, one of three main characters, in the BBC film "Ballet Shoes". Posy is a young, ambitious ballerina who is taken under the wing of a prestigious dance academy. She did not dance in "Ballet Shoes", instead a body double was used for her character
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Baby Ballerinas


Baby ballerinas is a term invented by the English writer and dance critic Arnold Haskell to describe three young dancers of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in the early 1930s: Irina Baronova (1919–2008), Tamara Toumanova (1919–1996), and Tatiana Riabouchinska (1917–2000). Children of the Russian exile community in Paris, established after the revolution of 1917, the three girls were discovered by George Balanchine in 1931 in the studios of two former ballerinas of the Russian Imperial Ballet. Baronova and Toumanova were pupils of Olga Preobrajenska;
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The Source (Ingres)


he is chiefly known". Kenneth Clark in his book "Feminine Beauty" observed how "The Source" has been described as "the most beautiful figure in French painting." Walter Friedländer in "David to Delacroix" referred to "The Source" simply as the most famous of Ingres' paintings. The model for the painting was the young daughter of Ingres' concierge. In his "Confessions of a Young Man", Irish novelist George Moore wrote, with relation to the morality of artistic production, "What
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The Lady of Shalott (painting)


public by Sir Henry Tate in 1894 and is usually on display in Tate Britain, London, in room 1840. "The Lady of Shalott" is one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works, an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting of a scene from Tennyson's poem in which the poet describes the plight of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an undisclosed curse in a tower
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Kandahar


Nadirabad. Kandahar Museum is located at the western end of the third block of buildings lining the main road east of "Eidgah Durwaza" (gate). It has many paintings by the now famous Ghiyassuddin, painted while he was a young teacher in Kandahar. He is acknowledged among Afghanistan's leading artists. Just to the north of the city, off its northeast corner at the end of "buria" (matting) bazaar, there is a shrine dedicated to a saint who lived in Kandahar more than 300 years ago
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Prima ballerina assoluta


Prima ballerina assoluta is a title awarded to the most notable of female ballet dancers. To be recognised as a "prima ballerina assoluta" is a rare honour, traditionally reserved only for the most exceptional dancers of their generation. Originally inspired by the Italian ballet masters of the early Romantic ballet, and literally meaning "absolute first ballerina", the title was bestowed on a prima ballerina who was considered to be exceptionally talented, above the standard of other leading ballerinas. The title is very rarely used today and recent uses have
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The Walls Around Us


The Walls Around Us is a 2015 number one New York Times best selling young adult novel by Nova Ren Suma. It was first published on March 24, 2015, through Algonquin Young Readers and centers upon three young women, two of which are held in a prison and accused of separate murders, and a third that is tied to both accused murderers. A paperback edition of the book was released on March 22, 2016. The book is told through the alternating viewpoints of the ballerina Violet and Amber, who is accused
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Modern Indian painting


distinct spiritual qualities, as opposed to the "materialism" of the West. His best-known painting, "Bharat Mata" (Mother India), depicted a young woman, portrayed with four arms in the manner of Hindu deities, holding objects symbolic of India's national aspirations. The other prominent figures of the Bengal school of art were Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath's elder brother, Jamini Roy, Mukul Dey, Manishi Dey and Ram Kinker Baij, who is more famous as the pioneer of Modern Indian Sculpture. Another
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Fedot Sychkov


portraits of peasants. One of the famous works of this period is the picture "Founding of Arapovo Station" (1892), made for Ivan Arapov, general from St. Petersburg who lived on his estate near Kochelaevo. With his help, young artist Sychkov was sent to St. Petersburg to continue his artistic education in 1892. In the Drawing School of St. Petersburg he continued to improve his skills and create paintings. One of the best paintings of the period is "Portrait of the Artist's Younger Sister, Yekaterina Sychkova"
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Menashe Kadishman


Menashe Kadishman (Hebrew: מנשה קדישמן; August 21, 1932 - May 8, 2015) was an Israeli sculptor and painter. Kadishman artworks are presented in central locations in Israel, such as Habima Square and his paintings can be found in many different galleries in Israel. He is most famous for his metallic sculptures and colorful sheep paintings. Kadishman was born in the British Mandate Palestine in 1932. His father, who was a pioneer, died when Kadishman was 15 years old. The young Menashe left school to help his
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Juan Francisco González


painting materials to achieve, for example, a transparency in oil paint that made it look similar to watercolor. His skillful execution and sensitivity to atmosphere placed him alongside the community of young artists who revolutionized visual arts in 19th century Paris. His favorite subjects included peasants, adobe houses and flowers, handling with skill the movement and color of flowers, and his youthful spirit always kept him current. His most famous quotations include: “Grace is not in truth itself, but in the personal expression of it. To draw is
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Ligovo


It was included into Kirovsky District. In April 1973, it was transferred to Krasnoselsky District. In the 1960s-1970s, all the territory of Ligovo has been anew planned and built up by modern many-storeyed houses. Now the territory of Ligovo is a part of Uritsk Municipal Okrug Mathilde Kschessinska was the first Russian "prima ballerina assoluta" in the world. She was born in Ligovo on . The famous Russian ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century Anna Pavlova was born in Ligovo. Obelisk in memory of defenders
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Lubo Kristek


the triune ballerina in the form of flames consumes all that is left after the destruction (the scene is followed by another Kristek motif, the rebirth). In the painting "Peculiar Pole Vault" (2016), the ballerina appears as Death. She is cleansing the world of the emptied society of waste. Another lifelong symbol of Lubo Kristek is the tree with two apples. The tree is naked like the hope that grows from the ashes of society's wasted efforts. It can be found, for example, in
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Minerva Teichert


. Teichert submitted many pieces of artwork to the church; however, during her lifetime, many of them were rejected. So, she gave several paintings to Brigham Young University to pay tuition for members of her family. Her works are also prolifically displayed around the campus of Brigham Young University. Several of her paintings can be seen in the Joseph Smith Building, the Wilkinson Student Center, and the Museum of Art. One of Teichert's most famous exhibits, "Pageants in Paint", has been on display in the
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy


yellow border on a red background. The artwork follows along the apparent theme of the album, as well as West's music film "Runaway". This is one of five covers; all of them were included with its purchase. A second cover, with a painting of a ballerina by Condo, was posted on the Amazon.com pre-order page. It was intended to be the original artwork for "Runaway", but West used a photograph of a ballerina instead. George Condo and Kanye West met for several hours
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Three Stations


, the young chess hustler who is a sometime ward of Arkady Renko, the police investigator. Meanwhile, Arkady tries to prove that the overdose death of a young prostitute in the station is nothing of the sort, and is suspended for his trouble. A billionaire casino owner with financial troubles offers to hire Arkady, but the latter can trust no-one. Thugs, dwarves, ballerinas, Central Asians and a gang of homeless tweens complicate matters still further. “It was not easy to be arrested for drunkenness. It
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Watercolor painting


expeditions stimulated the demand for topographical painters, who churned out memento paintings of famous sites (and sights) along the Grand Tour to Italy that was undertaken by every fashionable young man of the time. In the late 18th century, the English cleric William Gilpin wrote a series of hugely popular books describing his picturesque journeys throughout rural England, and illustrated them with self-made sentimentalized monochrome watercolors of river valleys, ancient castles, and abandoned churches. This example popularized watercolors as a form of personal tourist journal. The confluence of
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Durdy Bayramov


professional painter. His first art teacher was Gennadiy Brusentsov, a Russian artist who taught at the Shota Rustaveli Turkmen Art College in Ashgabat. Bayramov and Brusentsov developed a lifelong friendship, with Brusentsov acting as Bayramov’s mentor over the years. Brusentsov’s portrait of a young Bayramov, titled "Young Soccer Player", is in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Bayramov painted three significant portraits of his teacher, with the most famous one being "Portrait of My First Teacher", created in 1997-98
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes


winning series "Sherlock", credited "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" as a source of inspiration for their show. The film is divided into two separate, unequal stories. In the shorter of the two, Holmes is approached by a famous Russian ballerina, Madame Petrova (Tamara Toumanova), who proposes that they conceive a child together, one who she hopes will inherit her physique and his intellect. Holmes manages to extricate himself by claiming that Watson is his lover, much to the doctor's embarrassment. Back
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Tamara Karsavina


the small income Karsavina would receive as a dancer with the corps de ballet. After graduating from the Imperial Ballet School, Karsavina enjoyed a meteoric rise through the ranks, quickly becoming a leading ballerina with the Imperial Ballet. She danced the whole of the Petipa repertory. Her most famous roles were Lise in "La Fille Mal Gardée", Medora in "Le Corsaire", and the Tsar Maiden in "The Little Humpbacked Horse". She was the first ballerina to dance in the so-called "Le Corsaire Pas
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Mia Slavenska


and dance award. She left Zagreb for Vienna, where she danced under L. Dubois, G. Krauss and L. von Weiden; and Paris under Lubov Egorova, Mathilde Kschessinska and Olga Preobrajenska. For many years she was the leading ballerina of the famous Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and with whom she moved to U.S. in the outset of the World War II. In France she started working on film. After appearing in Jean Benoit-Levy's film "Ballerina" (1937) and promoting it in the U.S., she remained
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Anna Pavlova


her energetic double "pique turns" led her to lose her balance, and she ended up falling into the prompter's box. Her weak ankles led to difficulty while performing as the fairy Candide in Petipa's "The Sleeping Beauty", leading the ballerina to revise the fairy's jumps "en pointe", much to the surprise of the Ballet Master. She tried desperately to imitate the renowned Pierina Legnani, "Prima ballerina assoluta" of the Imperial Theaters. Once during class she attempted Legnani's famous fouettés, causing
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Tatiana Riabouchinska


Tatiana Mikhailovna Riabouchinska (, 23 May 191724 August 2000) was a Russian American prima ballerina and teacher. Famous at age 14 as one of the three "Baby Ballerinas" of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the 1930s, she matured into an artist whom critics called "the most unusual dancer of her generation." She was born in Moscow a few months before the October Revolution in 1917. Because her father was a banker to the Tsar Nicholas II, the whole family was put under house arrest by revolutionaries.
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Olga Lepeshinskaya (dancer)


by the second stage of the theater. In 1935 she performed the main role in the "Three Fat Men" ballet by Yury Olesha. The ballet became very popular and the 18-year-old ballerina became famous. Lepeshinskaya performed in private concerts at the Moscow Kremlin from the age of 17. She was very close to Polina Zhemchuzhina, wife of Vyacheslav Molotov. It was a great shock for her when Zhemchuzhina was imprisoned in a Gulag. Lepeshinskaya was known as the favourite ballerina of Joseph Stalin and even rumoured to be his
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The Painted Garden


to get over his writer's block. In California, Jane meets a movie producer who realises that her disposition makes her perfect to play Mary in a film version of "The Secret Garden". The novel shows the process of filmmaking from a child actor's perspective. The novel also involves Jane's siblings: Rachel the budding ballerina and Tim the promising pianist, who have their own adventures in California. But the plain and unnoticed Jane is the one who makes it to fame. Noel Streatfeild visited America in 1947,
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Rabbits and hares in art


and thinness of the hare's body is often exaggerated. Probably one of the most famous depictions of an animal in the history of European art is the painting "Young Hare" by Albrecht Dürer, completed in 1502 and now preserved in the Albertina in Vienna. Dürer's watercolor is seen in the context of his other nature studies, such as his almost equally famous "Meadow" or his "Bird Wings". He chose to paint these in watercolor or gouache, striving for the highest possible precision and "realistic"
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