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Here are the names of some famous ballerinas from modern times you may want to know about, they are from around the world:

Polina Semionova

Sylvie Guillem

Sylvie Guillem is a French ballerina, born in 1965.

Sylvie Guillem trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School at the age of 11.

Guillem joined the Paris Opera Ballet in 1981. She became their youngest ever ballerina in 1984, she was their most honorable female ballet dancer.

Guillem's aspiration was to work independently. Therefore, she became a self-employed performer.

She came to be one of the Royal Ballet's principal guest artists in 1989.

Darcey Bussell

Bussell began her training with the Royal Ballet School at the age of 13.

Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan took an eye to Bussell.

She joined Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet in 1988. She became principal just one year later.

In 2007 Bussell retired and gave one last performance for all her supporters.

She performed MacMillan's "Song of the Earth". It was broadcast live on television.

Darcey Bussell & Carlos Ascosta

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She was born in 1969 and is currently a principal dancer with .

Kent started her training with Hortensia Fonseca at the Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet. She later went to the School of American Ballet.

In 1985 Kent became an apprentice with the . She became a Principal at ABT in 1993.

Kent featured in the well-known film "" - a big stepping stone in her becoming one of the world's more famous ballerinas.

Paloma Herrera

Paloma Herrera was born in 1975, in Argentina.

She is currently a principal ballet dancer with .

Herrera joined the in 1991. She moved swiftly through the company and by 1995 she became a principal.

Polina Semionova

Semionova studied at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow.

In 2002 Semionova joined the Berliner Staatsoper Ballet Company.

She was only 18 and became the youngest principal in the company's history.

Whether it's from the past or the present, everyone has their own favourite ballerina. Which one is your favourite?

Polina Semionova
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