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  2. The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) - Wikipedia

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    Ballets by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. 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 ...

  3. Gelsey Kirkland - Wikipedia

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    Gelsey Kirkland (born December 29, 1952) is an American prima ballerina. She received early ballet training at the School of American Ballet. [1] Kirkland joined the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age 15, at the invitation of George Balanchine. She was promoted to soloist in 1969, and principal in 1972. She went on to create leading roles in ...

  4. Matthew Bourne - Wikipedia

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    Website. new-adventures.net. Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne OBE (born 13 January 1960) is a British choreographer. His productions contain many classic cinema and popular culture references and draw thematic inspiration from musicals, film noir and popular culture. Popular novels and films usually form the basis for his work but Bourne's dance ...

  5. Cynthia Gregory - Wikipedia

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    Gregory was the recipient of the 1975 Dance Magazine Award, honoring her dedication to, and enrichment of, the art of dance. In 1978 she received the Harkness Ballet ’s first annual Dance Award. She is the only two-time recipient annual awards from Dance Educators of America (1981 and 1988). In 1988, the now-defunct magazine New York Woman ...

  6. Evelyn Cisneros - Wikipedia

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    Evelyn Cisneros-Legate (born Evelyn Cisneros on November 18, 1958 in Long Beach, California) [1] is an American ballerina. Evelyn, who is Mexican American, is considered the first prima ballerina in the United States of Hispanic heritage. [2] She holds an honorary doctorate from Mills College and the University of California at Monterey Bay.

  7. Bluebird Pas de Deux (Stravinsky) - Wikipedia

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    This arrangement was initially commissioned by Lucia Chase, the founding director of the Ballet Theatre, in January 1941.The commission consisted of a short arrangement of the four parts composing the No. 25, Pas de deux de l'Oiseau bleu et la Princesse Florine, in Act III of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty.

  8. List of productions of The Nutcracker - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Alina Somova - Wikipedia

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    Alina Somova. in The Sleeping Beauty, 2010. Born. Алина Алексеевна Сомова. (1985-10-22) 22 October 1985 (age 38) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) Education. Dance Krushok School for Children; Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.