Gamechangers: the artists who changed, and are changing, the course of ballet

When we look back over the illustrious, if relatively short, history of ballet, its course is defined by those who changed what ballet – in its various guises – looked like and how it was done. Marie Taglioni, Vaslav Nijinsky, Pierina Legnani, Anna Pavlova, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Suzanne Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sylvie Guillem….as we