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Ailey, Alvin, Jr. allemande Alonso, Alicia American Ballet Theatre Angiolini, Gasparo Ashton, Sir Frederick (William Mallandaine) Astaire, Fred Béjart, Maurice Balanchine, George ballet ballet position Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Ballets Russes ballroom dance Baryshnikov, Mikhail (Nikolayevich) Beaujoyeulx, Balthazar de Benois, Alexandre (Nikolayevich) Blasis, Carlo Bolshoi Ballet Bournonville, August
Bruhn, Erik bugaku Camargo, Marie (-Anne de Cupis de) Castle, Vernon and Irene Cerrito, Fanny Charleston choreography Coralli, Jean country dance courante Cunningham, Merce d'Amboise, Jacques dance dance notation Danilova, Alexandra (Dionisyevna) de Mille, Agnes (George) de Valois, Dame Ninette Diaghilev, Sergey (Pavlovich) Dolin, Sir Anton Duncan, Isadora
Dunham, Katherine Eglevsky, André Elssler, Fanny Farrell, Suzanne Fokine, Michel folk dance Fonteyn, Dame Margot Fosse, Bob Fuller, Loie gavotte Geltzer, Yekaterina (Vasilyevna) Genée, Dame Adeline gigue Gorsky, Aleksandr (Alexeyevich) Graham, Martha Grahn, Lucile Grisi, Carlotta Hawkins, Erick Helpmann, Sir Robert (Murray) Holm, Hanya
hula Humphrey, Doris Ivanov, Lev (Ivanovich) Jamison, Judith jitterbug Joffrey, Robert Johansson, (Per) Christian Jones, Bill T. Jooss, Kurt Karsavina, Tamara (Platonovna) Kelly, Gene Kirstein, Lincoln (Edward) Ländler Laban, Rudolf (von) Lavrovsky, Leonid (Mikhaylovich) Lifar, Serge Limón, José (Arcadio) MacMillan, Sir Kenneth Makarova, Natalia (Romanovna) Mariinsky Theatre
Markova, Dame Alicia Martins, Peter Massine, Léonide mazurka merengue minuet Mitchell, Arthur modern dance Moiseyev, Igor (Aleksandrovich) Montez, Lola Morris dance Morris, Mark New York City Ballet Nicholas Brothers Nijinska, Bronislava Nijinsky, Vaslav Nikolais, Alwin Noverre, Jean-Georges Nureyev, Rudolf (Hametovich) pas de deux
pavane Pavlova, Anna (Pavlovna) Perrot, Jules (-Joseph) Petipa, Marius Petit, Roland Plisetskaya, Maya (Mikhaylovna) polka polonaise Preobrajenska, Olga Primus, Pearl quadrille Rambert, Dame Marie Robbins, Jerome Robinson, Bill Royal Ballet Saint-Léon, (Charles-Victor-) Arthur (-Michel) Sallé, Marie samba sarabande Shawn, Ted
Sokolow, Anna square dance St. Denis, Ruth swing dance sword dance Taglioni, Marie Tallchief, Maria Tamiris, Helen tango tap dance Taylor, Paul (Belville) Tetley (Jr.), Glen(ford Andrew) Tharp, Twyla Tikhomirov, Vasily (Dmitrievich) Tudor, Antony Ulanova, Galina (Sergeyevna) Vaganova, Agrippina (Yakovlevna) Vestris, (Marie-Jean-) Auguste Vestris, Gaétan Viganò, Salvatore
Villella, Edward waltz Weaver, John Weidman, Charles Wigman, Mary
