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Valen Hsu	She further broadened her acting career in 2003 by performing on stage with Zuni Icosahedron, an independent cultural collective concentrating on alternative theater and multi-media performances.
Solomon Mikhoels	Mikhoels, who showed outstanding talent, was the company's leading actor and, as of 1928, its director.
Roger Michell	In 1985, Michell joined the Royal Shakespeare Company where, over six years, he was an assistant director and then a resident director.
Kenneth King (dancer)	By 1966, he was working with renowned dancers Merce Cunningham and Carolyn Brown.
Stella Adler	Eventually she returned to New York to act, direct and teach, the latter first at Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research, New York City, before founding Stella Adler Studio of Acting in 1949.
Roger L. Stevens	Stevens was the General Administrator of the Actors Studio as well as one of the producers of the Playwrights Company, a member of the board of the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), and one of the members of a Broadway producing company he founded in 1953 with Robert Whitehead, and Robert Dowling.
Leonid Kozlov	On March 1, 1991, Kozlov performed in Moscow again for the first time after his defection as part of Stars of American Ballet by American choreographers and dancers from New York City Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, and Paul Taylor Dance Company in the 6,000-seat theater at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.
Naima Wifstrand	Wifstrand never trained acting but learned the art thoroughly when she in 1905 joined the Anna Lundberg Theatre Company, a well reputed and respected theatre company in Sweden at the time.
Tatsumi Hijikata	In 1962, he and his partner Motofuji Akiko established a dance studio, Asbestos Hall, in the Meguro district of Tokyo, which would be the base for his choreographic work for the rest of his life ; a shifting company of young dancers gathered around him there.
Steve Paxton	He was a founding member of the experimental group Grand Union and in 1972 named and began to develop the dance form known as Contact Improvisation, a form of dance that utilizes the physical laws of friction, momentum, gravity, and inertia to explore the relationship between dancers.
Roma Egan	In late 1972, Egan went to the London Dance Centre to secure a contract with an international ballet company.
Paul Alexander (American writer)	In 2008, Alexander founded The Artists Theatre Group, a not-for-profit theatre company, based in New York, whose mission is'' to nurture the voice of the artist -- the actor, the writer, the director, the choreographer, the designer -- while at the same time attempting to develop an ongoing audience who wants to be challenged and moved by the theatre''.
Raphael Xavier	He started choreographing dance with the Brandywine School of Ballet in 1995.
Ian Spink	After graduating in 1968, he danced and choreographed for The Australian Ballet, Australian Dance Theatre and the Dance Company of New South Wales.
Declan Donnellan	In 2000 he formed a company of actors in Moscow, under the auspices of The Chekhov Festival, whose productions include Boris Godunov, Twelfth Night and Three Sisters.
Kimmo Pohjonen	Pohjonen also collaborated in Paris in June 2006 with dancers / choreographers Tero Saarinen and Carolyn Carlson.
Andr? Prokovsky	He then danced in ballet troupes directed by Jeanine Charrat, Jean Babilee, and Roland Petit before joining the London Festival Ballet as a soloist in 1957.
Gillian Murphy	Gillian Murphy (born April 11, 1979) is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Sharon Kinney	Consequently, when Taylor later left Martha Graham's company, Kinney was invited to become a member of his new company in 1962.
Benjamin Harkarvy	Harkarvy's first post with a dance company came in 1957 with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
Alexander Goldstein	In 2006, during the first production of Kings of the Dance with classical ballet performances by Ethan Stiefel and Angel Corella of American Ballet Theatre, Nikolay Tsiskaridze of the Bolshoi Ballet and Johan Kobborg of the Royal Danish Ballet -- arguably the four strongest male principals dancers at that time, Alexander created a film about the dancers, which opened the performances at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (CA) and the New York City's City Center.
Katherine Dunham	Carl Van Vechten In 1928, while still an undergraduate, Dunham began to study ballet with Ludmilla Speranzeva, a Russian dancer who had settled in Chicago, having come to the United States with the Franco-Russian vaudeville troupe Le Théâtre de la Chauve-Souris directed by impresario Nikita Balieff.
Sergei Diaghilev	Diaghilev was soon responsible for the production of the Annual of the Imperial Theaters in 1900, and promptly offered assignments to his close friends : Léon Bakst would design costumes for the French play Le Coeur de la Marquise, while Benois was given the opportunity to produce Sergei Taneyev's opera Cupid's Revenge.
John Antill	A new version of the ballet, performed in 1954, was choreographed by American-born dancer, choreographer and writer Beth Dean who, with her Australian husband Victor Carell, spent eight months in parts of central and northern Australia to capture a more authentic understanding.
Roman Wilhelmi	In 1958, he graduated from the National Theatre School of Warsaw and started his career in various Warsaw-based theatre.
Bruce Marks (ballet)	Marks danced principal roles at the Royal Danish Ballet in : Marks has danced as guest artist with : By 1976, Marks became Co-Artistic Director of Ballet West at the invitation of its founder, Willam Christensen.
Nina Sorokina	Nina Sorokina () was a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet and a 1987 People's Artist of the USSR recipient.
Solomon Mikhoels	Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (-- 13 January 1948) was a Soviet Jew ish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater.
Francisco Negrin	In 2002, Francisco Negrin was a member of the board for London-based contemporary dance company Walker Dance.
Catherine Ringer	In 1976, she met the Argentine dancer and choreographer Marcia Moretto with whom she studied and also performed in various venues in Paris.
Gerome Ragni	Ragni had been involved with The Open Theater and its experimental techniques since it was originally part of the Living Theatre in 1962.
Dove Bradshaw	As Artistic Advisor to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company since 1984, she designed decor and lighting for a decade of the company's stage and television productions.
Nikolay Olyalin	After graduating at 1964, he joined the Krasnoyarsk Children's Theater, where - in spite of having tense relations with the director - he was considered the best comical actor among the cast.
Peter Malberg	In 1913, Malberg began working in the Copenhagen theaters, including the Alexandra Theatre, Frederiksberg Theatre and Betty Nansen Theatre.
Kiril Gospodinov	After graduating as an actor in The National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in 1966, he started working with the Varna Theater where he has stayed for five years.
Uzra Butt	She was born as Uzra Mumtaz She entered Uday Shankar's ballet troupe as a dancer and also taught dance before joining the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in 1944 as an actress.
Ole Bull	In 1850, he co-founded the first theater in which the actors spoke the Norwegian language, rather than Danish, namely Det Norske Theater in Bergen, which later became Den Nationale Scene.
Mikhail Mordkin	He joined Diaghilev's ballet in 1909 as a leading dancer.
Kevin Stea	A year after his first dance job, he was hired by Madonna as a dance captain, dancer and assistant choreographer on her 1990 Blond Ambition Tour.
Gabrielle Robinne	In 1904 she entered the company of Sarah Bernhardt and for a year she joined the Theatre Michel in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Susan Stroman	In 2004, Stroman was the first woman to choreograph a full-length ballet for New York City Ballet.
Peter Ustinov	After training as an actor in his late teens, along with early attempts at playwriting, he made his stage début in 1938 at the Players' Theatre, becoming quickly established.
Lesley Collier	She went on to perform in all of the important classical ballets, and in 1972 became a principal dancer.
John Craxton	In 1951 Craxton was a ballet designer for the Royal Ballet's production of Daphnis and Chloë, at a time when ballet stage design provided a haven for the neo-Romantic arts.
Darcey Bussell	A year later, in December 1989 when aged 20, she was promoted to principal dancer, at the time the youngest principal of the Royal Ballet.
Christopher Wheeldon	In 1993, at the age of 19, Wheeldon moved to New York City to join the New York City Ballet.
Jeraldyne Blunden	In 1963, Blunden chartered her own dance school named Jeraldyne's School of Dance, beginning a new era of opportunity.
Frank Chin	He founded the Asian American Theatre Workshop, which became the Asian American Theater Company in 1973.
Jeffrey Golladay	After joining the San Francisco Ballet, Jeffrey danced with the company until the 2001 season.
Anik Bissonnette	In 1989, Bissonnete joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montréal and was named principal dancer the following year, thus gaining access to roles that showcased the full range of her enormous talent.
Camille Everardi	He eventually moved to Saint Petersburg during the late 1850s where he appeared at the Mariinsky Imperial Theatre until 1873, when he retired from the stage.
Judith Jamison	In 1964, after seeing Jamison in a master class, Agnes DeMille invited her to come to New York to perform in a new work that she was choreographing for American Ballet Theatre, The Four Marys.
Semyon Mandel	In 1952, he became the resident designer of the `` Leningrad Thearte Lencom'' ; in parallel he worked with Arkadyi Raikin, with whom he created 3 programs for `` Theatre of Miniatures''.
Katina Paxinou	In 1932, she became the star of Athens's Theatre Royal, where she worked for nine years.
Alexander Scourby	In 1933, Scourby and other Civic Repertory apprentices joined together to form the Apprentice Theatre, which presented plays at the New School for Social Research in New York City during the 1933-34 season.
Lamara Chkonia	Her uncle Akaki Chkonia, a known writer and a director of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, was executed in 1937 during Greate Purge.
Paul Baker (teacher)	Those relationships allowed him to bring a group of Baylor acting students to Paris in 1952 for an intensive theatre study program and to produce and stage a production of Green Grow the Lilacs at Theatre Babylone.
John Forsythe	In 1947, Forsythe joined the initial class of the soon-to-be prestigious Actors Studio, where he met other promising young actors including Marlon Brando and Julie Harris.
Kenneth MacMillan	Later he won a scholarship to the Sadler's Wells Ballet School, where he studied for a year before, in 1946, joining Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, now known as Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Michel Fokine	Mikhail Fokine (a French transliteration Michel Fokine ; English transliteration Mikhail Fokin ;, Mikhaíl Mikháylovich Fokín) (-- 22 August 1942) was a groundbreaking Russia n choreographer and dance r. Fokine was born in Saint Petersburg, as son of a prosperous, middle-class merchant and at the age of 9, he was accepted into the Saint Petersburg Imperial Ballet School (Vaganova Ballet Academy).
Mark Howett	Mark Howett, born 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, is a director for theatre, dance, opera and film, having started his career initially as a lighting designer.
Jonathan Pryce	After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime girlfriend English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s.
David Lichine	Progressing quickly, he made his professional debut at age eighteen with Ida Rubenstein's company in 1928 and then went on to dance with companies headed by Anna Pavlova, Nijinska, and others.
Johan Kobborg	Despite media speculation that Kobborg would retire from the stage to replace Dame Monica Mason as Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet in 2012, it was later announced that Kevin O'Hare would be her successor.
Ivan Putrov	He spent 18 months at the Royal Ballet School and on graduation in 1998 Ivan Putrov was invited by the Royal Ballet's director, Sir Anthony Dowell, to join the company itself.
Josephine Hutchinson	In 1926, she met the actress Eva Le Gallienne and became a member of Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre company.
Ross Stretton	In 1978, he became a principal dancer with the Australian ballet.
Judith Jamison	However, she immediately returned to Alvin Ailey Dance Theater when the company re-formed in 1967.
Sarah Jayne Dunn	with Ali Bastian (Becca Dean) and Jodi Albert (Debbie Dean) In September 2007, it was announced that, along with her former Hollyoaks colleague Helen Noble and theatre actor Graham Tudor she would be teaching students at a new acting school in Liverpool.
Maria Andreyeva	Already by 1914, she was active in attempts to promote classical theatre to the masses.
David Hines	He returned to the Rambert School in 1969 and the same year he became a member of the London Ballet Company.
Julio Bocca	In 1985, aged just 18, he won the Gold Medal at the International Ballet Competition in Moscow and was invited to join the American Ballet Theatre by Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Armen Ohanian	After a short stint at the Tbilisi Opera in 1909, where she appeared for the first time as Armen Ohanian, she traveled again to Iran, where she performed as a dancer and actress during the last period of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.
Grigol Robakidze	His famous play Lamara was staged by the leading Georgian director Sandro Akhmeteli in 1930, a performance which became a prize-winner at the 1930 Moscow Drama Olympiad.
Shin Kishida	In 1961 Kishida joined a drama study group attached to the Bungakuza theater troupe.
Patricia McBride	McBride joined the New York City Ballet in 1959.
Lucas Hoving	Hoving first met José Limón in 1946 in a New York ballet class.
Barbara (singer)	In 1986 she went to New York City to perform on piano at the Metropolitan Opera with Mikhail Baryshnikov in a song and dance ballet presentation.
Christopher Wheeldon	Wheeldon completed his tenure as Resident Choreographer of New York City Ballet in February 2008.
Rick McNair	Although successful as a teacher and basketball coach, he was smitten by the theatre and in 1977 headed west and joined Theatre Calgary as the director of Caravan, which was a touring theatre troupe that traveled to schools throughout Alberta.
Lar Lubovitch	Lubovitch danced in numerous modern, ballet, jazz and ethnic companies before forming the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968.
Robert Adams (actor)	He was the founder and director of the Negro Repertory Arts Theatre, one of the first professional black theatre companies in Britain, and became Britain's first black television actor when he appear in Theatre Parade : Scenes From Hassan on BBC TV in 1937.
Fredrik Lilljekvist	He became involved in the project for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1901.
Cheryl Crawford	In 1946, she and Eva Le Gallienne founded the American Repertory Theatre.
Atsushi Takenouchi	Since 2002, he has been mainly based in Europe, working on Butoh dance collaboration project with dancers and actors in France, Poland, U. S.
Arlene Phillips	In Britain, Phillips first became a household name as the director and choreographer of Hot Gossip, a British dance troupe which she formed in 1974 using students she was teaching at the time.
Sophie Fedorova	She danced with the Diaghilev Ballet from its beginning in 1909, dancing major roles throughout the entire history of the Diaghilev Ballet.
Ji-Young Kim	In 1999, Kim resigned from the Korea National Ballet and applied to and auditioned for several ballet companies in Europe.
Joan Littlewood	In 1945, after the end of World War II, Littlewood, her husband, and other Theatre Union members formed Theatre Workshop, touring for the next eight years.
Liviu Ciulei	Soon after, he joined the theater company known as Teatrul Municipal din Bucureşti, later renamed Teatrul Bulandra, and directed his first stage production in 1957 -- The Rainmaker.
Richard Alston (choreographer)	Alston's own company was launched in 1994 to great critical acclaim and is now one of the UK's most celebrated contemporary dance companies.
Noralma Vera Arrata	Vera founded 1978 her own ballet company and academy in her home city.
Andr? Prokovsky	One especially fortuitous invitation came in 1966 from PACT/TRUK Ballet in Johannesburg, South Africa, which wanted him for Prince Charming in a new production of Cinderella.
Eugene Loring	With savings from his job as a hardware-store manager, Loring went to New York City near the depth of the Great Depression in 1934, and was taken into George Balanchine's and Lincoln Kirstein's newly formed School of American Ballet.
Amelia Jae	During this time, Amelia was introduced to Opera singer and teacher extraordinaire Jonathon Welch, who was also the founder of The Choir of Hard Knocks and went on to study full-time for a year at Australia's prestigious NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts), graduating from the' Singer Dancer Actor' course in 2004.
Sascha Radetsky	In September 2008, Radetsky joined the Dutch National Ballet as a principal dancer, where his repertoire included Albrecht in Giselle and Masetto in Don Giovanni.
Aubert Vanderlinden	After starting ballet with Piotr Nardelli in Brussels, Aubert Vanderlinden continued his classes at the Paris Opera Ballet school and later on, joined the prestigious ballet company in 2003.
Pearl Primus	In 1979, she and her husband founded the Pearl Primus'' Dance Language Institute'' in New Rochelle, New York, where they offered classes that blended African-American, Caribbean, and African dance forms with modern dance and ballet techniques.
David Lichine	In 1947 he was also working at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as choreographer and principal dancer.
Tilly Losch	She became a member of the corps de ballet on 1 March 1918 and a coryphee three years later.