Ms. Mearns is trained in the City Ballet style, but the shape and attack of her dancing suggested that she had studied legendary ballerinas from other companies as Odette-Odile.

Dai Ailian is China's legendary ballerina who was born in 1916 into an overseas Chinese family living in Trinidad.

ALICIA ALONSO, the legendary ballerina, knows the value of perseverance.

It was then that he attracted the attention of Alicia Alonso, the legendary ballerina who founded the national company.

Yvette Chauvire, France's legendary ballerina, is "the great dancer playing at being a great dancer."

Russians, who can joke about anything, even on an old Soviet airplane, called it a Makarova - after the legendary ballerina.

He was an artist of the first rank, one who could spin choreographic gold when working with legendary ballerinas, Broadway veterans or SAB students.

The legendary Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova, captivated Australian crowds at performances in 1926 and 1929.

Later, sitting in his apartment with his wife, Maya Plisetskaya, the legendary ballerina who still dances at the Bolshoi at the age of 63, he said he was also moved by something else.

The first cast included the legendary ballerina Olga Spessivtseva and Lubov Egorova in the role of Aurora.