Word: aegina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scott, daughter of an American Negro and a Russian mother) were unknown to the West. They were drawn from the corps de ballet on the theory that they would be less hidebound by classical technique than the older dancers (an exception: famed Soloist Maya Plisetskaya, dancing the courtesan Aegina). Lavishly supported by the government, the Bolshoi currently has some 250 regular dancers and mimes, including what is probably the most brilliant collection of soloists in the world...
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