Serge Ismailoff ( French Serge Ismailoff ; August 7, 1915 , Moscow - September 9, 1969 , White Plains , New York ) - ballet dancer of Russian origin.
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| Serge Ismailoff, Anna Volkova, Oleg Tyupin, Tamara Chinarova and Paul Petroff during the tour of the Russian Ballet Covent Garden in Australia (1938) | |
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In exile, he studied at the University of Louvain in Belgium, was engaged in athletic gymnastics, then decided to devote himself to ballet. He studied with Olga Preobrazhenskaya , Bronislava Nizhinsky and Lyubov Egorova . He made his debut in Paris, performed in the Russian Ballet of Monte Carlo , the Russian Ballet of Covent Garden and other Russian ballet troupes, which toured around the world in the 1930s and 40s. He married the Canadian ballerina Audrey Ruth Thomas, who performed under the pseudonym Anna Istomina . In the 1950s taught in New York at Olga Tarasova’s dance school, in 1960 , together with his wife, opened his own ballet school in White Plains.