America's first major prima ballerina worked for which ballet company?
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Nicholas Magallanes Nicholas Magallanes (1922–1977) was a first-generation principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. Along with Jerome Robbins, Francisco Moncion and Maria Tallchief, Magallanes was among the core group of dancers with which George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein formed the New York City Ballet (formerly "Ballet Society") in 1948. Magallanes created the title rôle in Balanchine's "Orpheus" to music by Stravinsky, the ballet that marked the debut of the new company.
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Maria Tallchief Elizabeth Marie "Betty" Tall Chief (Osage family name: "Ki He Kah Stah Tsa"; January 24, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American ballerina. She was considered America's first major prima ballerina, and was the first Native American to hold the rank.
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Liudmila Titova (ballerina) Liudmila Titova (Russian: Людмила Титова ) is a principal prima ballet dancer.
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Carrie Lee Riggins Carrie Lee Riggins is a ballerina dancing with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company; she formerly danced for New York City Ballet having trained at their affiliated School of American Ballet.
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Moscow Ballet (United States) Moscow Ballet has toured the United States and Canada during the holiday season since 1993 and is exclusively represented by Talmi Entertainment Inc for these tours. There are 70 to 80 Russian-trained classical dancers on the annual N.A. tour who fly in from the former republic of Russia. Stanislav Vlasov, a former principal artist of the Bolshoi Ballet, was the first artistic director on the North American tour in 1993. Vlasov's debut in the United States was at Carnegie Hall in 1957.
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Susan Jaffe Susan Jaffe (born 1962) is an American former ballerina and is a ballet mistress at American Ballet Theatre.
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Megan Fairchild Megan Fairchild (born 1984) is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet.
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Heidi Vosseler Heide Vosseler (1918–1992) was a European-born ballerina and member of George Balanchine's first American ballet company, American Ballet, from 1935 to 1938. She performed in his first American ballet, "Serenade", in his "Alma Mater", in two productions he choreographed for the Metropolitan Opera, and was featured in two Broadway musicals he choreographed, "The Boys from Syracuse" and "Louisiana Purchase" in which she understudied and appeared for Vera Zorina. Her sister Mardee was also a ballerina.
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Ballet Magnificat! Ballet Magnificat! is a professional Christian ballet company founded in Mississippi in 1986 and located in the state capital, Jackson. It has been described as the premiere Christian dance company in the United States. Their professional touring companies have performed both nationally and internationally. In 1989 Ballet Magnificat began offering classes to local dancers through their School of the Arts. They also began a Summer Dance Intensive in that same year that now attracts hundreds of dancers from around the world every year.
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Antoinette Sibley Dame Antoinette Sibley, DBE (born 27 February 1939) is a British prima ballerina. She joined the Royal Ballet from the Royal Ballet School in 1956 and became a soloist in 1960. She was celebrated for her partnership with Anthony Dowell. After her retirement from dancing in 1989 she became President of the Royal Academy of Dance in 1991, and guest coach at the Royal Ballet (1991) and Governor, Royal Ballet Board (2000).
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Sacramento Ballet The Sacramento Ballet was founded in 1954 by Barbara Crockett and Deane Crockett. During Ms. Crockett’s tenure as Company Director, The Sacramento Ballet gained national recognition as one of the finest regional arts companies. Through community support, the formation of the Ballet Guild, and grants from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, California Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ballet was able to grow and begin to hire a resident company of professional dancers. In 1986, having accomplished her goal of making The Sacramento Ballet a professional company, Ms. Crockett retired as the Company Director.
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Xiomara Reyes Xiomara Reyes is a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Born in Cuba, Reyes trained at the Cuban National Ballet School. After graduation, she danced as a soloist with "La Joven Guardia", an offshoot of Cuba's National Ballet. After two years, she was invited to perform with the Royal Ballet of Flanders in Belgium and danced with that company for seven years, rising to the rank of first soloist.
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Royal Winnipeg Ballet The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is one of the world's premier dance companies. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, it is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.
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Mia Slavenska Mia Slavenska (February 20, 1916 in Slavonski Brod – October 5, 2002 in Los Angeles), birth name Mia Čorak, was a Croatian-born American prima ballerina. She formed the "Slavenska Ballette Variante" and, later, the "Theatre Ballette". In 1954, she became the prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
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Kansas City Ballet The Kansas City Ballet is a 30-member professional ballet company in Kansas City, Kansas founded in 1957. It performs at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and rehearses in the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity. The professional company as well as the Kansas City Ballet Second Company (comprising KCB II and trainees) and the Kansas City Ballet School all operate on a day-to-day basis within this rehearsal and performance complex. The current Artistic Director is Devon Carney and Executive Director is Jeffrey J. Bentley.
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Brooklyn Mack Brooklyn Mack is an American professional ballet dancer who performs with The Washington Ballet. He previously danced with the Orlando Ballet and Pavlovich Ballet School.
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Robert Weiss (choreographer) Robert Weiss is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Carolina Ballet. He began his professional career at age 17 joining the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine, eventually becoming a Principal Dancer. Balanchine created several roles for him, including Ballo della Regina. Weiss remained with the New York City Ballet for 16 years. He later served as Artistic Director of the Pennsylvania Ballet from 1982 to 1990. Weiss then became the founding Artistic Director of Carolina Ballet in 1997 where he has remained to this day.
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Alicia Markova Dame Alicia Markova DBE (1 December 1910 – 2 December 2004) was an English ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the twentieth century. She was the first British dancer to become the principal dancer of a ballet company and, with Dame Margot Fonteyn, is one of only two English dancers to be recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta. Markova was a founder dancer of the Rambert Dance Company, The Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and was co-founder and director of the English National Ballet.
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Carla Fracci Carla Fracci (] ; born 20 August 1936, Milan) is an Italian ballet dancer and actress. Thanks to her extensive career and her acclaimed interpretation of several classical romantic ballets such as "La Sylphide", Fracci became one of the most experienced and recognized interpreters of Romantic ballets. “As Erik Bruhn once said, [Fracci] gave the world a new idea of the ballerina in 19th-century Romantic ballets.” Her career highlights include "Nijinsky", "Giselle" (American Ballet Theatre), Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances: Erik Bruhn 1961-1967.
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Elaine Kudo Elaine Kudo is a ballet dancer and choreographer. She is the ballet master at the Washington Ballet and was formerly a ballet mistress at the American Repertory Ballet. She danced formerly with the American Ballet Theatre as a soloist, "excelling" in Twyla Tharp's choreography.
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Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is an American professional ballet company based in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Marie Taglioni Marie Taglioni (23 April 1804 – 22 April 1884) was a ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance. She was one of the most celebrated ballerinas of the romantic ballet, which was cultivated primarily at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, and at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique of the Paris Opera Ballet. She is credited with (though not confirmed) being the first ballerina to truly dance en pointe.