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Stage Name |
Birth Name |
| Vera Fokina |
Vera Antonova |
Vera was a Russian dancer and was the
widow of the famous Michel Fokine (b.1880-1942.) She graduated
from the St. Petersburg "Imperial School of Ballet"
in 1904. Vera married Michel Fokine in 1905 and became one
of his most faithful disciples. They had a son named Vitale.
Vera achieved her greatest fame in Western
Europe where she began her appearance's in 1908 with the
Diaghileff ballet. Danced for awhile in the Maryinsky ballet
theater until 1918, when she resigned and moved to New York
with her husband Michel Fokine in 1919. |
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