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Valery Panov (Russian: Валерий Матвеевич Панов; born 12 March 1938) is a Soviet-born Israeli dancer and choreographer Valery Panov was born in Vitebsk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (present-day Vitebsk, Belarus) in 1938. He studied at the Vaganova School in Leningrad, which is the present-day Academy of Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg. Panov attended the Moscow and Leningrad Ballet Schools, graduating from the latter in 1957. He danced with the Maly Ballet in Leningrad (1957–64), where he created r