Before going into the movies, the former ballet dancer won the Miss Malaysia crown in 1983.
"She'd compare a step to a flower, or take off her necklace and say how all the beads have to be perfectly put together to form the whole (dance) variation, " said Lola Cooper, a Carolina Ballet dancer who studied with Kostritzky at the School of American Ballet.
He floats off the trampoline like a gazelle, twisting in the air with the fluidity of a ballet dancer.
In Mr. Gomes's showcase, Jorma Elo's awkwardly titled "Still of King, " the dancer looked ballet-classical in uncredited costuming of cream tights and crepe-de-chine "Romantic" shirt, but the classic costume design turned out to be a gag for the choreographer.
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There, she was taught by the choreographer Bronislava Nijinska, the sister of the legendary dancer Nijinsky, and learned ballet in the style of the Russian school.
Despite making comebacks after the birth of both of her children, in 2006 she announced her retirement as a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet because of injuries to her body and physical stress.
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He became principal dancer with the Ballet Russe and created many ballets for Diaghilev.
In 1927, Isadora Duncan, the U.S. ballet dancer, was killed in a car in Nice, France.
The subtext: it's probably better to deal with protesters whose symbolic image is a ballet dancer pirouetting on top of the Wall Street bull statue, than some other, less politically endearing iconography.
Young Irene is the ballet's central force, and Atlanta Ballet dancer Alessa Rogers's impressively long, arched and pliant feet make the 24-year-old's presence in the role extra vivid.
Deborah Bull - Principal Dancer at the Royal Ballet since 1992.
Now based in Russia, Polunin returned to the Royal Ballet in February as a guest dancer to rave reviews in Frederick Ashton's Marguerite and Armand.
Mr Hampson is a former professional dancer who trained at the Royal Ballet School.
Whether the dancer would leave the rigors of ballet to have children, and whether she would then return to dance, are questions that ballet devotees had long pondered.
Enter into that a South Dakota-born dancer who exemplifies the prince in classical ballet.
The English National Ballet's artistic director has said missing Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin is "in Moscow and is OK", following his sudden departure from a London show.
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Last week, another former City Ballet dancer, Benjamin Millepied, was tapped to run the Paris Opera Ballet.
Lin's awakening to dance came with the 1948 classic The Red Shoes - the tale of an aspiring dancer's struggle to join a famous ballet company.
Another dancer, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, loudly criticized Filin for going over budget in the ballet's multimillion dollar renovation.
In 1973, a 33-year-old dancer named Pina Bausch was invited to take over the directorship of Wuppertal's ballet.
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