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Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
Ballet Royal de la Nuit, Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1653; Ballo della Regina, ... La Fille mal gardée, to an arrangement of fifty-five popular French airs, 1789;
At dance companies around the world, ‘Nutcracker’ season is in full swing. Clémence Michallon speaks to dancers and critics about the show that has become a staple across countries and ...
For two weekends around Valentine's Day, OKC Ballet will revisit one of the world's most famous ballets, accompanied by the OKC Philharmonic. ... Flaming Lips to free shows, what to know about OKC ...
In 1989, Michael Shannon was the first American ballet dancer to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and join the Bolshoi Ballet company. [4] Despite staging many famous ballets, it struggled to compete with the reputation of the Imperial Russian Ballet, today's Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg.
The death of Tsar Alexander III on 1 November 1894 and the ensuing period of official mourning brought all ballet performances and rehearsals to a close for some time, and as a result all efforts could be concentrated on the pre-production of the full revival of Swan Lake. Ivanov and Petipa collaborated on the production, with Ivanov retaining ...
First performed by the San Francisco Ballet in 1944, The Nutcracker became a smash hit when it was reworked by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet in 1954. And the rest, they say, is ...