Michel Fokine(born April 23 [April 11, old style], 1880,St. Petersburg, Russia—died Aug. 22, 1942, New York City) was a dancer and choreographer who profoundly influenced the 20th-centuryclassical balletrepertoire. In 1905 he composed the soloThe Dying Swanfor the Russian ballerina Anna Pa...
Nureyev is regarded by some as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation.Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union to a Bashkir-tatar family. He began his early career with the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg. He defected from the Soviet ...