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A ballerina is a Female Ballet Dancer .

Although the term ''ballerina'' is used for any female ballet dancer, it was originally a rank given to an exceptional ballet soloist in the Russian Imperial Ballet . The rankings, from highest to lowest, were:

  • prima ballerina assoluta

  • ''prima ballerina''

  • ballerina

  • premiere danseuse

  • soloist

  • coryphee

  • corps de ballet


There were only two prime ballerine assolute in Imperial Russia - Pierina Legnani and Mathilde Kschessinska , and two prime ballerine assolute in Soviet Russia - Galina Ulanova and Maya Plisetskaya .


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