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Russian dancer prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya dances 'The Dying Swan' (by Mikhail Fokine with music by Camille Saint-Saens) during a Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet performance at Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House, New York, New York, September 21, 1974. (Photo by Linda Vartoogian/Getty Images)

Russian dancer prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya dances 'The Dying Swan' (by Mikhail Fokine with music by Camille Saint-Saens) during a Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet performance at Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House, New York, New York, September 21, 1974. (Photo by Linda Vartoogian/Getty Images)