- Italian ballet
dancer and teacher, who is considered one of the most gifted teachers
in ballet history. Born in Rome, Cecchetti became ballet master of
the Imperial Theaters in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1890. From 1910
to 1913 he was ballet master to the Ballets Russes of Russian impresario
Sergei Diaghilev. Cecchetti opened his own school in London
in 1918 and returned to Milan, Italy, in 1925.
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