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The play made its world premiere in the Olivier Theatre at the Royal National Theatre, London from 26 November 2024 running until 22 February 2025, directed by Katy Rudd. [1] Full casting was announced on 26 September 2024.
The Afternoon of a Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. Nijinsky danced the main part himself. The ballet is set to Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet. Travesti is a theatrical character in an opera, play, or ballet performed by a performer of the opposite sex.. For social reasons, female roles were played by boys or men in many early forms of theatre, and travesti roles continued to be used in several types of context even after actresses became accepted on the stage.
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.
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Lawrence Pech has been Ballet Master for the San Francisco Opera [2] for the past several years. He continues to choreograph [ 3 ] and compose. He currently is finishing his masters in composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music , under the tuleage of David Conte , chair of the department.
Laurencia is a ballet created by Vakhtang Chabukiani to music by Alexander Krein, based on Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna.Created at a time when "choreodrama" was considered in the Soviet Union the only acceptable form of contemporary ballet, it harks back to a genuine drama, wherein movement was a vehicle for meaning, and dance could serve as divertissement as well as dramatic purpose.
Contact is a musical "dance play" that was developed by Susan Stroman and John Weidman, with its "book" by Weidman and both choreography and direction by Stroman. It ran both Off-Broadway and on Broadway in 1999–2002. It consists of three separate one-act dance plays.