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An abridged version of the ballet, performed by the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, was staged in New York City in 1940 by Alexandra Fedorova [4] - again, after Petipa's version. [2] [3] The ballet's first complete United States performance was on 24 December 1944, by the San Francisco Ballet, staged by its artistic director Willam Christensen. [3]
Nijinsky danced the main part himself. The ballet is set to Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. Both the music and the ballet were inspired by the poem L'Après-midi d'un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé. The costumes, sets and programme illustrations were designed by the painter Léon Bakst.
During the 1910s, the dance scene in Kyiv saw a rapid development in classical ballet and contemporary dance training and performance. Mikhail Mordkin, a former soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet, travelled to Kyiv with a troupe and gave performances with Art Nouveau approaches, containing Spanish and Oriental themes. He was hired by the ...
YouTube: Graduation Ball Ballet, Metropolitan Ballet Theatre, Alpharetta, Georgia. Excerpt from a student production. YouTube: Good girl variation. Graduation Ball. Ksenia Ovsyanick in 2007 end-of-year performance of English National Ballet School, London. YouTube: O Baile dos Cadetes, Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Lisbon.
The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed it about 4,000 times.
Ballet (French:) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.
Sadler's Wells Ballet billed the performance as The Sleeping Princess. [7] 1940 [6] Dante Sonata: choreography Frederick Ashton, music by Franz Liszt leader of the Children of Light Fonteyn was the first to dance the role in the ballet's debut performance. [6] 1940 [6] The Wise Virgins: choreography by Frederick Ashton, music by Johann ...
Scene from Les Sylphides. The following is a list of ballets with entries in English Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by ballet title, with the name of the composer (or the composer whose music the ballet is set to) and the year of the first performance.