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Ballet Theatre

(Encyclopedia)Ballet Theatre: see American Ballet Theatre. ...

Royal Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Royal Ballet, the principal British ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. It is noted for lavish dramatic productions, a superbly disciplined corps de ballet, and bril...

American Ballet Theatre

(Encyclopedia)American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th and 21st cents. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 ...

Paris Opéra Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Paris Opéra Ballet: see Opéra.

Vic-Wells Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Vic-Wells Ballet: see Royal Ballet. ...

Sadler's Wells Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Sadler's Wells Ballet: see Royal Ballet. ...

Royal Danish Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Royal Danish Ballet, one of the oldest major ballet companies, established at the opening of Denmark's Royal Theater in Copenhagen in 1748. Its ballet school, which trains the group's dancers, has als...

San Francisco Ballet

(Encyclopedia)San Francisco Ballet, America's first classical ballet company, est. 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet by the dancer Adolph Bolm. Based at the War ...

Robert Joffrey Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Robert Joffrey Ballet: see Joffrey Ballet. ...

Plisetskaya, Maya

(Encyclopedia)Plisetskaya, Maya mäˈyä plēsĕtsˈkäyä [key], 1925–2015, Russian dancer. Pliesetskaya became a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on graduating from its school in 1943. She soon gained...