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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Ivan Novikoff, August Bournonville, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Tamaz Vashakidze, Jean-Georges Noverre, Enrico Cecchetti, Todd Bolender, Fabio Grossi, Lew Christensen, John Clifford, Ballet master, Filippo Taglioni, Arthur Saint-Leon, Julius Reisinger, John Taras, Christian Johansson, Jean-Antoine Petipa, Louis Deland, Pyotr Gusev, Jules Perrot, Peter Martins, Nikolaj Hubbe, Poul Gnatt, Jean-Baptiste Pitrot, Jean-Pierre Aumer, Niels Bjorn Larsen, Lev Ivanov, Mansur Kamaletdinov, Antoine Bournonville, Anders Selinder, Louis Gallodier, Pierre Gardel, Joseph Hansen, Peter Boal, Brian Macdonald, Jean-Baptiste Lande, Louis Duport, Maximilien Gardel, Albert, Jean-Baptiste Brulo, Nikolai Legat, Jean-Baptiste Blache, Jocelyn Alizart, Sean Lavery, Louis Milon, Louis Dupre, Henning Kronstam, Vera Shvetsova, Piotr Zajlich, Antoine de Beaulieu, Lucien Petipa, Per Erik Wallqvist, Basil Thompson, Patrick Delcroix, Pedro Romeiras, Antoine Pitrot, Joseph Mazilier, Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani, Lisa Steier, Mary Skeaping, Gunhild Rosen, Jean-Baptiste Hus, Aleksandr Alekseievich Gorsky. 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 initiators of the Georgian Opera. George's brother, ...
