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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."


New York City Ballet

George Balanchine

Vaslav Nijinsky

George Zoritch

Marianna Tcherkassky’s Ballet Costume

Rudolph Nureyev

Martha Graham, Rudolph Nureyev, and Margot Fonteyn

Untitled (Tamara Toumanova)

Maria Bonfanti

Merce Cunningham

Carmelita Maracci

Jerome Robbins

Edward Villella

M. Fokine

Alvin Ailey

Doris Humphrey

Merce C

Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan

Dana Tai Soon Burgess

Fred Astaire

Clipping of a ballet dancer

Reproduction of a photo of ballet dancer "De Rosa"

Costume Design: Diana for a Ballet

13c Ballet single

Clipping of a ballet dancer balancing on a man's foot

Les Ballets de Paris

Reproduction of a photo of ballet dancer Louise Lamoureux

Heinz Spoerli, Brahms ein Ballet

Reproduction of Gurney & Son photo of ballet dancer Kate Pennoyer

Costume Design: Ariadne, for Harkness Ballet

A Ballet Dancer, Mademoiselle Leclerc

Stage Design: Backdrop, for "Checkmate"

Juju in Ballet Costume

Proscenium and Stage Design: Scene 1, Ballet celebrating the marriage of Leopoldo Cesare, Duke of Mantua, and Claudia Felice, Archduchess of Austria, 1674


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