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The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa listen ⓘ) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. It is the second of his three ballets and, at 160 minutes, his second-longest work in any genre.
His adaptations of Sleeping Beauty, Edward Scissorhands, The Red Shoes, Dorian Gray, and Lord of the Flies added new dimensions to these near-ubiquitous stories. Bourne's recent work, The Midnight Bell, sets Patrick Hamilton's 1929 novel in a pub, and Bourne's Romeo and Juliet put the tragedy's mental health and youth suicide themes centre stage.
In 2016 Matthew Bourne cast her as Vicky Page in his adaptation of The Red Shoes. [5] [6] Shaw played Aurora in Bourne's 2022 Sleeping Beauty staging. [7] [8] [9] She has also danced the parts of femme fatale Lana in The Car Man [10] [11] [12] and Princess Sugar in Bourne's Nutcracker!, [13] [14] and appeared in his version of Swan Lake with ...
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a contemporary ballet based on the Russian romantic work Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchaikovsky and the broad outline of the plot. Bourne's rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men. It was the longest-running ballet in London's West End and on ...
New Adventures principal dancers Richard Winsor, Sam Archer, Simon Williams and James Leece performed in Matthew Bourne's Mr Wonderful. The sold-out evening was hosted by Sir Matthew Bourne and featured over 80 performers - including many former colleagues of Ollivier. Income from the event was placed in charitable trust funds for Ollivier's ...
Choreography: Matthew Bourne; Company: Adventures in Motion Pictures; Premiere: August 26, 1992, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh [65] In 1992, choreographer Matthew Bourne staged a new version of the ballet as part of a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's one-act opera Iolanta (presented by Opera North) to celebrate the centenary of both works. [66]
The Sleeping Beauty (1992), song on album Clouds by the Swedish band Tiamat. Sleeping Beauty Wakes (2008), an album by the American musical trio GrooveLily. [95] There Was A Princess Long Ago, a common nursery rhyme or singing game typically sung stood in a circle with actions, retells the story of Sleeping Beauty in a summarised song. [96]
La Sylphide (English: The Sylph; Danish: Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832, and a second version choreographed by August Bournonville in 1836.