Sleeping Beauty
... as much from the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ballet (Saint Petersburg, 1890) as from Perrault. More ... in 1825. Before Tchaikovsky's version, several ballet productions were based on the "sleeping beauty ... Aumer's choreography of a four-act ballet-pantomime La Belle au bois dormant . Scribe ... part of Perrault's tale for the ballet, which was set by Hérold and first ... he was not successful in getting the ballet staged again. When Ivan Vsevolozhsky , the ...
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Louis Mérante
... was a dancer and choreographer, the first ballet master (maître de ballet) at the Opéra Garnier, Paris, who is ... the three choreographers who defined the French ballet tradition during the Second Empire and the ... first annual competition for the Corps de ballet, held April 13, 1860. The jury included ... Following Sylvia Mérante choreographed Le Fandango, a ballet-pantomime that premiered November 26, 1877 ...
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Les Sylphides
... is often confused with La Sylphide, another ballet of similar name, also involving the mythical ... Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by ... Chopin. It premiered on in 1908 the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg as Rêverie Romantique: Ballet sur la musique de Chopin or Chopiniana. As Les Sylphides, the ballet was first shown on June 2, ...
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Jacob's Pillow
... cultural traditions rather than those of European ballet. Their trailblazing work and cross-country tours ... again in 1941, this time to British ballet stars Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin. Their ... to attend a wide array of programs: ballet, modern dance, mime, ballroom dance, and folk ... international groups such as The Royal Danish Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theatre have made their ... School’s conservatory-style curriculum includes five programs: Ballet, Cultural Traditions, Contemporary Traditions, Jazz, and ...
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Michel Fokine
... he debuted on the stage of the Maryinsky theatre in the ballet Pakhit; in 1902 he became a teacher in ballet school. Fokine aspired to move beyond stereotypical ballet traditions. Virtuoso ballet techniques to him were not an ...
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Tamara Toumanova
... when she was the ballerina at the Maryinsky Theatre, and therefore it was decided that ... de Jeanne. George Balanchine saw her in ballet class and engaged her for the Ballets ... they still used the plural form of Ballet Russe), as one of the three "Baby ... called "The Black Pearl of the Russian Ballet." Balanchine choreographed the part of the Young Girl for Tamara in his ballet Cotillon, and also starred her in ...
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Talk:Mariinsky Theatre
... to many historians stating that Minkus' first ballet was "Paquita", scored jointly with Deldevez. Yes ... Theatre the passage: The Imperial opera and ballet theatre was established in 1783 on behest ... There was nothing related to Opera or Ballet on the place of Mariinsky in the ... Forza "was a work commissioned for the Maryinsky" (sic). SO - -Can we assume that the ...
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User talk:Ghirlandajo
... Forza "was a work commissioned for the Maryinsky" (sic). SO - what are your sources for ... the "State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet" 1917- 1934. Which is a better English ...
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Die Bajadere (polka)
... der Wien in Vienna. Marius Petipa's ballet La Bayadère premiered at the Maryinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, February 4, 1877[1 ...
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Talk:Anna Pavlova
... Diaghilev's, in the rapid growth of ballet durring the early 20th century, was that ... exert by Anna Paviova. A student at Maryinsky, Pavlova's talent was evident long before ...
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