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Women in Dance

Women dancers: ballet, modern and other genres. Choreographers and performers are included.
Fanny Elssler
Profile of Fanny Fanny Elssler, ballerina.
Biographies: Women of Dance
A list of biographies of women dancers and choreographers, many on this site.
Josephine Baker
She began dancing in vaudeville and jazz revues in the 1920s. Her exotic dancing took her to France. Later in life, financial difficulties and continuing racism plagued her, though she had a successful comeback just before her death.
Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan brought modern dance to the world, living (and dying) with personal tragedy.
Isadora Duncan Quotes
Quotes by Isadora Duncan - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Fanny Elssler
Austrian ballerina of international renown.
Martha Graham
Dancer and choreographer best known as a leader of the modern dance (expressionist) movement, expressing emotion through dance. A biography and links for more information on the Net.
Jill Johnston Quotes
Quotes by Jill Johnston - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Anna Pavlova
A delicate Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova's classical style won acclaim worldwide.
Anna Pavlova Quotes
Quotes by Anna Pavlova - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief, a Native American ballet dancer, achieved a number of firsts as an American ballerina.

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