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1. Bob Fosse

trained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmascame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicagoaccepted to the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age nine, eventually becoming a teacher there, choreographed a four-minute ballet for Anna Pavlova called The Dying Swan, set to 'The Swan' from The Carnival of the Animals (the title comes from a Tennyson poem entitled 'The Dying Swan'), mentored Vaslav Nijinsky and featured him in early works like Les Sylphides, a ballet based on the music of Frédéric Chopinmade her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeus

2. George Balanchine

accepted to the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age nine, eventually becoming a teacher there, choreographed a four-minute ballet for Anna Pavlova called The Dying Swan, set to 'The Swan' from The Carnival of the Animals (the title comes from a Tennyson poem entitled 'The Dying Swan'), mentored Vaslav Nijinsky and featured him in early works like Les Sylphides, a ballet based on the music of Frédéric Chopinmade her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeustrained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmascame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicago

3. Twyla Tharp

made her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeustrained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmasaccepted to the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age nine, eventually becoming a teacher there, choreographed a four-minute ballet for Anna Pavlova called The Dying Swan, set to 'The Swan' from The Carnival of the Animals (the title comes from a Tennyson poem entitled 'The Dying Swan'), mentored Vaslav Nijinsky and featured him in early works like Les Sylphides, a ballet based on the music of Frédéric Chopincame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicago

4. Michel Fokine

accepted to the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age nine, eventually becoming a teacher there, choreographed a four-minute ballet for Anna Pavlova called The Dying Swan, set to 'The Swan' from The Carnival of the Animals (the title comes from a Tennyson poem entitled 'The Dying Swan'), mentored Vaslav Nijinsky and featured him in early works like Les Sylphides, a ballet based on the music of Frédéric Chopinmade her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeuscame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicagotrained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmas

5. Jerome Robbins

best known for his work with Leonard Bernstein, broke through as a choreographer with an experimental ballet about three sailors on leave in New York City, Fancy Free, which he then helped rework into the hit 1944 musical On the Town, known for being temperamental and difficult to work with, he conceived, choreographed, and directed the 1957 original production of West Side Story and won an Oscar for co-directing the 1961 film versionmade her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeustrained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmascame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicago

6. Martha Graham

trained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmasthe first dancer invited to perform at the White House, developed the 'Graham technique' that creates dramatic tension through 'contraction' and 'release' of major muscles, first major success was her 1958 concert-length ballet Clytemnestra, one of four collaborations with composer Halim Ed-Dabh,made her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeuscame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicago

7. Pierre Beauchamp

trained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmastaught dance to French King Louis XIV at Versailles for over two decades. An early director of the Western world's first dance institution, the Académie Royale de Danse, he collaborated extensively with Molière's acting company and the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. He is often credited with codifying the five basic feet positions in ballet, his system of dance notation, later revised by Raoul-Auger Feuillet and Pierre Rameau and today known as 'Beauchamp-Feuillet notation,' was used until the late 1700smade her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeuscame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicago

8. Alvin Ailey

made her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeustrained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmascame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicagowas a pioneering African-American choreographer, originally danced in the Horton Dance Company run by his mentor Lester Horton, formed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City, his best-known work, Revelations, was based on his upbringing in Texas and is divided into three parts, titled 'Pilgrim of Sorrow,' 'Take Me to the Water,' and 'Move Members, Move.' 'Move Members, Move' emphasizes gospel music, including the traditional spiritual 'Sinner Man,' and concludes with the number 'Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham,' which recreates a joyous church service

9. Agnes de Mille

trained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmascame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicagomade her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeusniece of the film director Cecil B. DeMille and granddaughter of the economist Henry George, worked extensively with American Ballet Theater, but the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo commissioned her most famous work, Rodeo, details a love rectangle between characters known as American Cowgirl, Champion Roper, Head Wrangler, and Rancher's Daughter. found success in musical theater, creating a revolutionary 'dream ballet' for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!.

10. Vaslav Nijinsky

was known as the greatest male dancer of his era, but what he really wanted to do was choreograph, his boss at the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev, gave him the opportunity in 1912 with The Afternoon of a Faun, set to the music of Claude Debussy, and a year later a riot broke out at the premiere of another ballet he choreographed, his choreography of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, he never danced again in public, and spent much of the rest of his life in various asylums and institutionsmade her mark in the mid-1970s with the 'crossover ballets' Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove, both marked by a fusion of diverse musical and dance styles. She found success on Broadway with the 'jukebox musical' Movin' Out, set to the catalog of Billy Joel; she subsequently built musicals around the songs of Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She created the children's ballet The Princess and the Goblin and collaborated with director Milos Forman on the Hollywood films Hair, Ragtime, and Amadeuscame to prominence in the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Fosse choreographed for them in the number 'From This Moment On' launched Fosse's career, Fosse's unique style, featuring turned-in knees, rolled shoulders, sideways movement, and 'jazz hands,' found its greatest expression on Broadway, where he choreographed the musicals The Pajama Game, Redhead, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicagotrained in his native Georgia (the country) and Russia and briefly worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes in Paris before being invited by impresario Lincoln Kirstein to the United States, where the two co-founded the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and its associated School of American Ballet, Balanchine began the tradition of annually staging The Nutcracker at Christmas

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