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| | Russian Orientalism and the Ballet Russe |
 | | Dancer, scholar, choreographer, lecturer, and instructor, Laurel Victoria Gray has traveled to five continents to study, teach, and perform the ethnic dances of the Middle East and Central Asia. |
 | | She has been to Uzbekistan ten times, training there for two years at the invitation of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater named for Alisher Navoi. |
 | | She has also studied with the dervishes of Cairo, Egypt. |
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