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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 ...
Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Petipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet , its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center , New York, with costumes by Karinska , sets by Horace Armistead ...
Phillida Gili is the daughter of Reynolds Stone and Janet Woods. [3] He was a wood engraver, engraver, designer, typographer and painter; she was a singer and photographer. [4] [5] [3] Gili won a prize from The Young Elizabethan magazine as a child for drawing a human foot from the perspective of an ant. [6]
The release date was delayed several times. In July 1978, the studio pushed back the release date to Christmas 1984 due to their inability to animate realistic human characters, which caused The Fox and the Hound to be released in 1981. Re-production of The Black Cauldron began in 1980. Shortly before the film's initially planned 1984 ...
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.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962). David Lean’s First World War epic about TE Lawrence remains a filmmaking milestone, the movie that Steven Spielberg rewatches before starting each new film.
The Year Without a Santa Claus, a Christmas special from Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., turns 50 this December. The beloved special was adapted from the book of the same name by Phyllis ...
Nutcracker Fantasy (くるみ割り人形, Kurumiwari Ningyō, lit. ' The Nutcracker ' ) is a Japanese-American stop motion animated film produced by Sanrio , [ 1 ] very loosely based on Tchaikovsky 's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker and E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 story " The Nutcracker and the Mouse King ". [ 2 ]