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Grand Pas de Quatre is a ballet divertissement choreographed by Jules Perrot in 1845, on the suggestion of Benjamin Lumley, Director at Her Majesty's Theatre, to music composed by Cesare Pugni. On the night it premiered in London (12 July 1845), it caused a sensation with the critics and the public alike.
Pas de quatre (literally, "step of four") is a French term used to identify a ballet dance for four people. [1] Pas de quatre are usually plotless dances performed as divertissements within the context of a larger work. However, narrative pas de quatre and pas de quatre that stand alone are not unknown.
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 ...
In July 1845, she danced with Lucile Grahn, Carlotta Grisi, and Fanny Cerrito in Jules Perrot's Pas de Quatre, a ballet representing Taglioni's ethereal qualities that was based on Alfred Edward Chalon’s lithographic prints. [7] Pas de Quatre was originally choreographed to be presented to Queen Victoria, who attended the third performance. [7]
As mentioned above Swan Lake is one of the most famous examples of narrative ballet, other famous narrative ballets include: Giselle, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and L'histoire de Manon. The story of Giselle is a romantic tale of innocent love and betrayal; of philandering Count Albrecht and a trusting peasant maid, Giselle.
Lev Ivanov's choreography—created for the 1895 revival of Swan Lake—was meant to imitate the way cygnets huddle and move together for protection. Four dancers enter the stage in a line and move across with their arms crossed in front of one another, grasping the next dancers' hands. They move sideways, doing sixteen pas de chat. Ideally ...
For the next six years he choreographed regularly at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, including Ondine (1843), La Esmeralda (1844), Le Judgement de Paris (1846), and Pas de Quatre (12 July 1845). For this ballet he not only negotiated the difficult task of persuading the four leading ballerinas of the day to appear on stage together at Her ...
Le Pas d'acier, Sergei Prokofiev, 1927; Pas de Deux, to music by Anton von Webern, 1969; Pas de légumes, to music by Gioachino Rossini, 1982; Pas de Quatre, Cesare Pugni, 1845; The Path of Thunder, Gara Garayev, 1958; Les Patineurs, to music by Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1937; Le Pavillon d'Armide, Nikolai Tcherepnin, 1907