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La Bayadère was the creation of the dramatist Sergei Khudekov [] and of Marius Petipa, the renowned Premier maître de ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. The music was composed by Ludwig Minkus, who from 1871 until 1886 held the official post of Ballet Composer to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres.
In ballet, a variation (sometimes referred to as a pas seul, meaning to dance alone) is a solo dance. In a classical grand pas de deux , the ballerina and danseur each perform a variation. [ 1 ]
Among many of her performances, there was a variation of Odette from Swan Lake, a variation of Kitri from the 1st act of Don Quixote, a variation of Gamzatti from La Bayadere, a modern dance Say it Quieter, If You Can (ballet master Yevgeniy Chernov) and others.
Neumeier La Dame aux camélias: Manon Lescaut, Prudence (in first Paris Opéra production, 2006); 3ème Symphonie de Mahler : The Angel Nureyev La Bayadère: Gamzatti; Third Variation Nykia; Swan Lake: Odette-Odile (Tokyo, 2007) Cinderella: Les soeurs Don Quixote: Kitri Nutcracker: Clara Raymonda: title role, Henriette
In 1947 Gusev choreographed a new version of the Variation de Gamzatti from the 1877 Petipa/Minkus ballet La Bayadère for Natalia Dudinskaya. Today Gusev's choreography is the standard version performed by ballet companies throughout the world.
Vakhtang Mikheilis dze Chabukiani [a] (March 12, 1910 – April 6, 1992) was a Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.He is considered to be one of the most influential male ballet dancers of the 20th century, and is noted for creating the choreography of several of the most famous male variations of the classical ballet repertory, for example in Le Corsaire, La Bayadère ...
Particularly notable are her Gamzatti and Nikya in La Bayadère, Kitri in Don Quixote, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Queen Mekhemene Banu in A Legend of Love, and Terpsichore in Apollo. [6] Writing in The Daily Telegraph , Sarah Crompton referred to her as a "rising talent", describing her as a "filigree beauty" with "fiendish fouettés".
Gamzatti, La Bayadere — choreography by Marius Petipa, in the version of Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani; Gulnara, Odalisque in Le Corsaire — staged by Pyotr Gusev based on the composition and choreography by Marius Petipa; variation, Grand pas in Paquita — choreography by Marius Petipa;