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Agrippina Vaganova

1879 - 1951

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Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova (Russian: Агриппи́на Я́ковлевна Вага́нова; 26 June 1879 – 5 November 1951) was a Soviet and Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method – the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School (today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet) under the Premier Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s. It was Vaganova who perfected and cultivated this form of teaching the art of classical ballet into a workable syllabus. Her Fundamentals of the Classical Dance (1934) remains a standard textbook for the instruction of ballet technique. Her technique is one of the most popular techniques today. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Agrippina Vaganova is the 34th most popular dancer (up from 35th in 2019), the 618th most popular biography from Russia (up from 672nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Dancer.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Agrippina Vaganova ranks 34 out of 116. Before her are Olga Khokhlova, August Bournonville, Jules Perrot, Liane de Pougy, Pierre Beauchamp, and Alexander Godunov. After her are La Goulue, Filippo Taglioni, Roland Petit, Lev Ivanov, Yury Grigorovich, and Louise Rasmussen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Agrippina Vaganova ranks 66. Before her are Johan Nygaardsvold, Billy Mitchell, Jane Darwell, Huda Sha'arawi, William Beveridge, and Paul Poiret. After her are Samuel Goldwyn, Ethel Barrymore, Frederick Schule, Alfred Korzybski, Dwight F. Davis, and William Fox. Among people deceased in 1951, Agrippina Vaganova ranks 50. Before her are Sadegh Hedayat, Artur Schnabel, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Robert Grant Aitken, Reggie Walker, and Erich Naumann. After her are Fritz Thyssen, François Georges-Picot, Émile Chartier, Kijūrō Shidehara, John Sloan, and Warner Baxter.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Agrippina Vaganova ranks 618 out of 3,761. Before her are Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Alexander Schmorell (1917), Valerian Kuybyshev (1888), and Grigory Margulis (1946). After her are Sergei Ivanov (1953), Vladislav Tretiak (1952), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), Andrey Korotayev (1961), Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691), and Jean Béraud (1849).

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Among DANCERS In Russia

Among dancers born in Russia, Agrippina Vaganova ranks 9. Before her are Maya Plisetskaya (1925), Michel Fokine (1880), Tamara Karsavina (1885), George Balanchine (1904), Galina Ulanova (1910), and Alexander Godunov (1949). After her are Lev Ivanov (1834), Yury Grigorovich (1927), Léonide Massine (1896), Olga Preobrajenska (1871), Vladimir Vasiliev (1940), and Lydia Lopokova (1892).

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