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Notable Dancers and Choreographers

Alvin Ailey, Jr. See also African-American Visual and Performing Artist Hispanic-American Film, Television, and Theater Personalities Women Musicians and Dancers People in the News…

Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich

(Encyclopedia) Diaghilev, Sergei PavlovichDiaghilev, Sergei Pavlovichsyĭrgāˈ pävˈləvĭch dyäˈgĭlyĭf [key], 1872–1929, Russian ballet impresario and art critic, grad. St. Petersburg Conservatory of…

Biedermeier

(Encyclopedia) BiedermeierBiedermeierbēˈdərmīər [key], name applied, at first in a joking spirit, to a period of European culture and a style of furniture, decoration, and art originating in Germany…

Rushdie, Sir Salman

(Encyclopedia) Rushdie, Sir SalmanRushdie, Sir Salmansälmänˈ r&oomacr;shˈdē [key], 1947–, British novelist, b. Bombay (now Mumbai, India). He is known for the allusive richness of his language…

Bulgarian literature

(Encyclopedia) Bulgarian literature. For early ecclesiastical writings, see Church Slavonic. Modern Bulgarian literature stems from the work of Father Paisi, who in 1762 began his history of the Slav…

Brno

(Encyclopedia) Brno Brno bûrˈnô [key], Ger. Brünn, city, SE Czech Republic, at the confluence…

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

(Encyclopedia) Tchaikovsky, Peter IlyichTchaikovsky, Peter Ilyichĭlyēchˈ chīkôfˈskē [key], 1840–93, Russian composer, b. Kamsko-Votkinsk. Variant transliterations of his name include Tschaikovsky and…