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Born
St. Petersburg, Russia -
Her First Ballet
When she was 8 years old she saw her first ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, at the Mariinsky Theatre -
Entered the Imperial Ballet Academy
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Joined the Imperial Ballet
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The Dying Swan
First performed her signature role, the "Dying Swan."
-choreographed by Mikhail Fokine
-music composed by Camille Saint-Saens -
Ballet Russe
Joined Sergey Diaghilev's Ballet Russe -
On Her Own
made her own ballet company -
Home for Children
Founded a home in Paris for Russian refugee orphans -
Died
Contracted double pneumonia and died in the Hague, Netherlands