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Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux [a] is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky originally intended for act 3 of Swan Lake (Op. 20, 1875–76). [2] With costumes by Barbara Karinska and lighting by Jack Owen Brown, it was first presented by New York City Ballet at the City Center of Music and Drama, New ...
Swan Lake is a one-act ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music (1875–56). The premiere took place Thursday, 20 November 1951 at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York.
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine [1] and Lincoln Kirstein. [2] Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company.
Barbie of Swan Lake (2003) is a direct-to-video children's movie featuring Tchaikovsky's music and motion capture from the New York City Ballet and based on the Swan Lake story. In this version, Odette is not a princess by birth, but a baker's daughter; instead of being kidnapped by Rothbart and taken to the lake against her will, she discovers ...
Third U.S. tour began with a performance in New York City on 13 September. [43] The tour lasted 19 weeks and included 4 Canadian cities and 20 cities in the U.S. [44] 1953 [43] The Sleeping Beauty: by Tchaikovsky Aurora Performed in New York City on 16 September. [43] 1954 [45] The Sleeping Beauty: by Tchaikovsky Aurora 1954 [33] Daphnis and Chloe
As chief architect again for the development of Lincoln Center, Harrison was chosen to design the new opera house, to be built as the centerpiece of the new performing arts complex- a twenty-five acre, eighteen block site on the Upper West Side, chosen by Robert Moses as a major urban renewal and slum clearance project. After a long process of ...
The short ballet (four minutes) follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. The ballet has since influenced modern interpretations of Odette in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and has inspired non-traditional interpretations as well as various adaptations.
The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo. New York: Dance Horizons. ISBN 0-87127-127-3. Chazin-Bennahum, Judith (2011) René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In search of a lost life. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539933-2; Sorley-Walker, Katherine (1983) De Basil's Ballets Russes. New York: Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-11365-X