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- Balanchine’s First Famous Ballerina: Tamara Geva. Tamara Geva was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, to a free-thinking family of artists. Geva’s father came from a Muslim family, and as a consequence, Geva had less access to opportunities than her Christian peers; but, as soon as the Mariinsky Ballet opened to non-christian students after the Russian Revolution, she enrolled as a night student, where she met Balanchine.
- The Grandmother of Ballet: Alexandra Danilova. Alexandra Danilova, also a Russian artist, trained at the Imperial School of Ballet alongside Balanchine.
- The Bridge Between High Art & Popular Media: Vera Zorina. Vera Zorina, born Eva Brigitta Hartwig, was a Norwegian ballerina, actress, and choreographer.
- The First American Prima Ballerina: Maria Tallchief. Maria Tallchief is perhaps one of the most famous ballerinas of all time and is credited for her performances worldwide.
Balanchine with his wife, Tamara Geva, and several other dancers (Alexandra Danilova, Nicholas Efimov) went to Germany, but all performances in Berlin were met coldly. The Young Ballet had to perform in small cities of the Rhine Province such as Wiesbaden , Bad Ems , and Moselle .
- April 30, 1983 (aged 79), New York City, U.S.
- 1929–1983
- Dancer, choreographer, director
- Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze, January 22, 1904, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Feb 15, 2012 · A great ballerina, she was George Balanchine’s fifth (and last) wife, who was stricken with polio at 27, on the New York City Ballet’s 1956 European tour.
- Holly Brubach
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Apr 2, 2014 · In 1922, Balanchine married a 15-year-old ballet student named Tamara Gevergeyeva. This was the first of four marriages to dancers, and for each of his wives, Balanchine would make a ballet....
February 4, 2019. George Balanchine famously wrote, that ballet “is a woman.” Four of his most celebrated women—Allegra Kent, Gloria Govrin, Kay Mazzo and Merrill Ashley—appeared onstage at Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institute Monday evening to celebrate his legacy.
Tanaquil Le Clercq was the fourth and last wife (1952–1969) of George Balanchine, the pioneer of American ballet. He obtained a quick divorce from her to woo Suzanne Farrell (who refused Balanchine's marriage proposal and went on to marry another Balanchine dancer, Paul Mejia ).
Jul 22, 2006 · On her 15th birthday, this ballet-crazy Cincinnati girl auditioned in New York for Balanchine, the world-famous choreographer-director 41 years her senior. He fell in love with her, making her a legend of the century's stage, and divorced his crippled ex-ballerina wife in the hope of making his young muse the fifth Mrs B.
