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Carina Ari biography: 1897 - Born on the 14th of April. 1920 - Carina Ari studied at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and with Fokine in Copenhagen.1923 - Carina Ari was ballerina with Les Ballets Suédois. 1938 - Carina Ari then embarked on a solo career but also choreographed several works for the Paris Opé ...
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Josephine Freda Mac Donald Baker biography: 1906 - Born on the 3rd of June in St. Louis, Missouri.1917 - Josephine Freda Mac Donald Baker survived in the riots in East St. Louis, Illinois.1919 - Began dancing in vaudeville and on Broadway.1925 - Went to Paris where, after the jazz revue La Revue Nègre failed, her comic ability and jazz ...
Mikhail Baryshnikov biography: 1948 - Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov was born 28th of January in Riga, Latvia. 1963 - Mikhail Baryshnikov applied to the famous Vaganova Ballet Academy. 1966 - Joined Leningrad's Kirov Ballet. - Won the very prestigious gold medal at t ...
Erik Belton Evers Bruhn biography: 1928 - Born on October 3rd at Copenhagen, Denmark. Danish ballet dancer noted for his outstanding classical technique, who appeared mainly as a guest artist with North American and European companies.1937 - Bruhn entered the training school for the Royal Danish Ballet.1947-1949 - Erik Belton Evers B ...
Fernando Bujones biography: 1955 - Born in Miami, Florida on the 9th of March.1967 - Fernando Bujones won a scholarship to the School of American Ballet, the official school of the New York City Ballet Company.1972 - Fernando Bujones joined the American Ballet Theatre, one of the world's preeminent dance companies. 1974 - Fern ...
John William Sublett biography: 1902 - Born on the 19th of February in Louiseville, Kentucky.1920 - John William Sublett gave lessons in tap dancing to Fred Astaire who considered Sublett the finest tap dancer of his generation. 1930 - The ten-year-old performed with Ford L. Buck in "Buck and Bubbles", with Buck pl ...
Benoit de Sainte Maure biography: French troubadour ...
Cetshwayo biography: 1826 - Cetshwayo was born a son of Zulu king Mpande, who was a half-brother of Zulu king Shaka.1856 - Cetshwayo defeated and killed in battle his younger brother Mbuyazi, Mpande's favorite, and became the effective ruler of Zulu tribe.1861 - Umtonga fled to the Boers' side of the border and Cetshway ...
John William Colenso biography: South African (English-born) bishop ...
Gregory Nunzio Corso biography: US Beat poet ...