11.   Christopher Gable, a ballet star with a successful acting career on stage and film, dies of cancer in Yorkshire, England.

12.   Many Chinese ballet stars have joined companies in the United States and other countries.

13.   Rutelli made the inaugural run along with Carla Fracci, a ballet star who is the daughter of a tram car conductor.

14.   Rudolf Nureyev, the Russian ballet star who defected to the West during the height of the Cold War, has been posthumously rehabilitated.

15.   The group includes Brodsky friends including emigre ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov and poet Yevgeny Rein, the Interfax news agency reported.

16.   Works collected by late Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev will be on offer in New York in January.