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Article: An American Dance Dynasty.(family in the American Ballet Theatre)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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The Brown family boasts three generations of dancers, including five members who have been with American Ballet Theatre. Is this a world record?
All ballet families are certainly not Mike: a short list would include the illustrious Vestris and Taglioni clans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Filippo Taglioni, widely traveled principal dancer and ballet master, was the father of Made Taglioni (1804-1884), who ranks as one of the greatest ballerinas of all time. Then there are the Petipas, particularly Jean Antoine and his two sons, Lucien and, most notably, Marius. Closer to home and to our own day, we have the Littlefields of Philadelphia; the ...
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