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The Art of Ballet

The beauty of ballet captured as a moment in time. Costumes worn by ballerinas Violette Verdy, Marianna Tcherkassky, and Misty Copeland were showcased at the National Museum of American History. Read more about their stories in "Passionate Threads: American Ballet Costumes Embody Perseverance, Dreams and New Horizons."


Ballerine

The White Ballet

La Bayadère

Judith Jamison in "Cry"

En Crinoline

Gelsey Kirkland

Valerie Bettis--Desperate Heart

Gelsey Kirkland and Ivan Nagy in "Romeo and Juliet"

Jaqueline with Fichu

Full Dress Rehearsal of the Grand Presidential Corps de Ballet

Dancer: Arabesque on Right Leg, Left Arm in Line

Maria Tallchief

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Peter Martins and Suzanne Farrell in "Chaconne"

Ballerinas

Dancers Resting

32c American Ballet single

Peter Martins and Suzanne Farrell in "Chaconne"

Untitled (Celestial Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova)

Untitled (Allegra Kent)

Fanny Elssler

Untitled (Marine Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova)

Carmelita Maracci

Rudolph Nureyev

Rudolph Nureyev

Dancing Class

Untitled (Butterfly Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova)

Dance Theatre of Harlem #2

Arabesque

Carmen de Lavallade

Encore

Martha Graham

Vera Zorina

Rudolph Nureyev

Jerome Robbins


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