Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin (; 7 September 190720 March 1970) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet master. His students include Askold Makarov, Nikita Dolgushin, Oleg Vinogradov, Rudolf Nureyev,Александр Иванович Пушкин at kino-teatr.ru Margarita Trayanova, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Sergei Berezhnoy.

Pushkin's movement system was based on the experience of musical theater. This system of movement arose from folk, social, and other forms of dance. It is this system that is associated with the concepts of "Russian" and "classical" ballet.

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