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Competitions	Directories	French ballet
Russian ballet	Stravinsky	Tchaikovsky
Blogs and journals	Ballet terms	History of ballet

See also: Dance Theatre Music

American ballet

American Ballet Theatre. America's national ballet company.
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Ballet companises in the U.S.A. The Open Directory Project
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Ballet companies on the web.
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Boston Ballet Company
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Houston Ballet
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New York City Ballet
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San Francisco Ballet Company

American Ballet Theatre
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Australian Ballet
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Ballerinas; famous ballerinas

Ballerinas. Great ballerinas, a directory from Dancer.com.
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Ballerina Gallery. Photographs of famous ballerinas.
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Ballerinas, a list from Wikipedia.

Famous ballerinas

Alicia Markova
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Alina Somova

Alina Somova. Facebook

Anna Pavlova, Wikipedia entry.

Anna Pavlova. Photographs.

Margot Fonteyn, Wikipedia entry.

Margot Fonteyn. Biography, background.

Galina Mezentseva
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Irina Kolesnikova
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Maria Tallchief
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Nina Ananiashvili, The Complete Ballerina.
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Svetlana Zakharova
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Sylvie Guillem

Ballet companies See below

Ballet Companies.com. A gateway to ballet and dance companies present on the internet.

Ballet dancers

Famous ballet dancers. Wikipedia entry.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail. Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Vaslav Nijinsky. Vaslav Nijinsky. Ballets, choreographies.
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Nureyev, Rudolph. Rudolph Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev Foundation
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Rudolf Nureyev. Timeline.

Ballet shoes

Wikipedia entry on Pointe shoes.

Ballet web directories

Ballet Russe. Scenery Collection, Butler University.
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Ballet web directory from JY Ballet.
A comprehensive directory of ballet websites and articles on ballet.
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Ballet Notes. Background information on ballets, their creators and their history.
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Ballet resources.
Links to ballet websites, international ballet resources.

Ballets

Ballets. A short background history. Ballet.co.uk
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A list of famous ballets.

La Bayadère
Cinderella
Don Quixote
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu)
Giselle. Artslynx Notes on Giselle

Giselle Notes from BalletMet
ABT's Giselle Resources Page
Giselle. Reviews of recorded peformances.

Nutcracker

Bruce Marriott's Nutcracker Resources
The Mining Company's History of The Nutcracker
Ballet Met's notes on Nutcracker
Ballet Minnesota's Nutcracker Timeline

Petrushka

The Making of a Love Triangle

Romeo and Juliet
A Sleeping Beauty Timeline

Ballet Met's notes on Sleeping Beauty
ABT's Sleeping Beauty Resources

Swan Lake

Ballet Met Notes on Swan Lake
ABT's Rep notes on Swan Lake

La Sylphide
Syphides

Ballet Russe

Ballet Russe Scenery Collection, Butler University.
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Ballets Russes,Wikipedia entry.
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Ballets Russes Project.
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The Bolshoi Ballet
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Diaghilev, Serge. Serge Diaghilev, Wikipedia entry.
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Kirov-Marinsky Ballet
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Nijinsky, Vaslav. Vaslav Nijinsky, Wikipedia entry.
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Ballet Russe. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
List of ballets and choreographers.

Balinchine, George
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Bronislava Nijinska
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Fokine, Michel
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Massine, Leonide

Baryshnikov, Mikhail Barisknikov. White Oak Troupe
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Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich, Germany.
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Benesh Institute. The International Centre for Benesh Movement Notation Benesh Movement
is a concise, accurate and versatile system for recording all forms of human movement. Movements are described by plotting the body's changing positions along a five-lined stave in a consecutive series of notated 'frames'.
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Blogs and journals

The Ballet Blog
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Voice of Dance
An extensive communications hub for dancers, dance fans, choreographers and critics.
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Dancer Universe
News and articles for ballet dancers, parents of dancers, and ballet enthusiasts.
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Dance Magazine
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j-Pointe
Joffrey Ballet
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Pointe Magazine
A bimonthly publication devoted to ballet news, reviews and features.
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Lindsay Live
Lindsay Dreyer, Dancer Magazine's editor.
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Laura Diffenderfer
The Editor of Dancer Magazine

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Britain . British ballet

Ballet.co.uk. British ballet magazine.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet
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English National Ballet. England's touring ballet company
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Contemporary dance in the UK from The Place,
The Richard Alston Dance Company.
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English National Ballet
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Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
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Legends of British ballet.
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London ballet performanes.
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London. West End ballet performances.
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The Rambert Dance Company
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Royal Academy of Ballet, UK (RAD).
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The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London.
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The Royal Ballet School, Britain.
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The Scottish Ballet.

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Choreographers, Ballet Choreography

Choreographers and composers. Artslynz
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Choreographers of The Paris Opera Ballet
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Hampson, Christopher. Christopher Hampson, a contemporary U.K. choreographer.
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U.K choreographers directory. Dance U.K.
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Wikipedia list of choreographers.

Famous choreographers

Balanchine, Georges
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Fokine, Michel
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Massine. Leonide
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Nijinsky, Vaslaw

Cinderella, Serge Prokofiev. Performance history.
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Classical ballet, Wikipedia entry.
Wikipedia
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Companies

Ballet companies on the web.
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Leading Ballet Companies in USA, UK, Russia and Europe,

The Australian Ballet
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Boston Ballet Company
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American Ballet Theatre, New York, NY
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Atlanta Ballet
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Bejart Ballet Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.
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Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, WA
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Royal Ballet, London.
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English National Ballet, London.
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Houston Ballet - Houston, TX
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Kirov Ballet, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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National Ballet of Canada, Toronto.
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Miami City Ballet - Miami, FL
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Netherlands Dance Theater, The Hague.
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New York City Ballet, New York, NY.
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San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, CA.
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St Petersburg Ballet Theatre
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Opera National de Paris Ballet
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New York City Ballet
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Royal NZ Ballet
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Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Competitions

Genee International Ballet Competition
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Helsinki International Ballet Competition
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Japan International Ballet Competition
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International Ballet Competition, Luxembourg
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Maya International Ballet Competition
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New York International Ballet Competition
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Prix de Lausanne
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USA-International Ballet Competition
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Varna International Ballet Competition

Composers

Composers. Ballet composers and choreographers.

Coppelia timeline.
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Criticaldance.com. A forum for dancers.

Dance resources on the internet, a comprehensive directory from Artslynx.
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Dancing Online. An internet ballet magazine.
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Dictionaries, encyclopedias

Dictionary of Ballet Terms
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Ballet dictionary. Theatre Dance.com
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Wikipedia entry on ballet.

European ballet companies

European ballet companies. The Open Directory Project

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Fokine, Michel

List of ballets by Michel Fokine.
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Michel Fokine. Papers in the Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library.

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Forum for dancers. Criticaldance.com
A forum for dancers, with reviews, articles and interviews.

French ballet

Ballet dancers. Wikipedia entries on French ballet dancers.
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Ballet Preljocaj
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Centre Choregraphique National/Ballet Biarritz
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French ballet companies.
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Opéra national de Paris
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Wikipedia entry on French ballet.

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Giselle

Giselle timeline.
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Giselle. Reviews of recorded peformances.
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Wikipedia entry on Giselle.

Hamburg Ballett / Hamburg Ballet
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History of ballet

Andros on Ballet
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Dancing Online, History of Ballet
How ballet evolved from the courts of Renaissance Italy to the revival of interest in the 1960s.
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The History of Ballet
Dance4it
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The history of ballet.
Wikipedia
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The History of Ballet
Ballet.com

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