"online fashion magazine ""StyleLikeU"". In early fall of 2001, she entered the School of American Ballet and in November 2001 she became an apprentice with the New York City Ballet. In October 2002 she joined the company as member of the corps de ballet. She was on medical leave from the company for various injuries for seven years before she was promoted to the rank of soloist in February 2013. In 2012 she danced the role of Dewdrop in ""The Nutcracker"". In 2015, LeCrone made her debut as the Sugar Plum Fairy in ""The Nutcracker"". Notable performances include principal roles"
"Association and became the first Honor Company in North Carolina, the highest level of membership within the Association. The name then changed from Civic Ballet Theatre to Greensboro Ballet. Professional dancers were introduced into the company in 1995. Greensboro Ballet has performed with the accompaniment of the EMF Young Artists Orchestra of the Eastern Music Festival and with the Greensboro Symphony. While the company performs mainly in Greensboro, it has gone on tour various times throughout North Carolina. In 2017, Greensboro Ballet company member Lauren Dorn became the first African-American to dance the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in"
"Sugar Plum Fairy), and the Eglevsky Ballet. Wildish was described by The New York Times as ""a strong dancer with an adorably comic, wide-eyed presence,"" ""a delightful young colt of a dancer,"" and ""vivacious."" Wildish is a Certified Teacher of Primary through Level 7 (the highest) of the American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum. She participated in ABT's project of establishing uniform country-wide standards of instruction. She has trained and mentored other teachers, notably for the Dance Educators of America, and as a member of the U.S. Faculty of Education of the United Kingdom's Royal Academy of Dance. An outspoken"
"around the world is produced: chocolate from Spain, coffee from Arabia, tea from China, and candy canes from Russia all dance for their amusement; Danish shepherdesses perform on their flutes; Mother Ginger has her children, the Polichinelles, emerge from under her enormous hoop skirt to dance; a string of beautiful flowers perform a waltz. To conclude the night, the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier perform a dance. A final waltz is performed by all the sweets, after which the Sugar Plum Fairy ushers Clara and the Prince down from their throne. He bows to her, she kisses Clara goodbye,"
"Erin McNeill Erin McNeill is a Canadian ballerina. She is a graduate of Centennial Secondary School and since 2013 works with Atlanta Ballet. In 2015 she damaged her achilles tendon, but thanks to physical therapist at New Westminster, she is able to continue her career after six months of intensive therapy. In 2014 she appeared in a role of ""corps dancer"" with the Coastal City Ballet and on May 15, 2015, she played a role of ""Cinderella"" at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver. In December of the same year, McNeill appeared as the Sugar Plum Fairy along with Miguel"
"Stuttgart Ballet, the Scottish Ballet. She has also performed with such notable dancers as Irek Mukhamedov, Carlos Acosta, and Tetsuya Kumakawa. She performed with the Opera di Roma the new production of Le Corsaire and Carla Fracci Giselle . Within the classical repertory, Galeazzi has performed such roles as the title role in Fokine's ""The Firebird"", the Sugarplum Fairy in Tchaikovsky's ""The Nutcracker"", the title role in Adolphe Adam's ""Giselle"", Gamzatti in Natalia Makarova's production of ""La Bayadère"", the title role in Edouard Deldevez's ""Paquita"", and the Bluebird in Tchaikovsky's ""The Sleeping Beauty"", Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the role"
"film, the Prince and the nephew would seem to be two different characters, though that may not have been what the filmmakers intended. Director Ardolino died of AIDS only a few days before the film's release. The other rôles in the film were played by members of the New York City Ballet, including Darci Kistler as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Damian Woetzel as the Fairy's Cavalier, Bart Cook as Drosselmeyer, Jessica Lynn Cohen as Marie (a.k.a. Clara), and Wendy Whelan as Coffee in the Arabian Dance. During the 2011 Christmas season, PBS, for the very first time, presented the complete"
"of Petipa's ballets down to just one act. The choreography of ""Cinderella"" is full of dreams, some most definitely unfulfilled. In the ballroom, the put-upon, shy ""Ugly Sister""—significantly Ashton's own role—performs a Petipa figure that amounts to her dream of being ""Odile"" at Siegfried's ball or the ""Sugar Plum Fairy"". She is in fact full of choreographic dreams, and that is the clue to her character (as is the fact that she has Edith Sitwell's nose). Again in the ballroom the bossy ""Ugly Sister"" does a fish-dive with her suitor, a dream of the final ""pas de deux"" in ""The"
"gone on to play the starring role of the Sugar Plum Fairy as a professional adult dancer. Her only guide through her fears and worries is her crush on hockey star Phil Esposito, whom she regularly imagines coaching and guiding her dancing. The film's voice cast includes Saara Chaudry as Vickie, Chloe Gillard as Peter, Zoe Fraser as Bella, Sara Botsford as the ballet mistress and Sheila McCarthy as the narrator, as well as Esposito, Karen Kain and Bob Cole as themselves. The film premiered on December 14, 2015 on CBC Television, before receiving a repeat airing on Christmas Day."
"""Manon"", the Sugar Plum Fairy in ""The Nutcracker"", Kitri in ""Don Quixote"", Hanna in ""The Merry Widow"", Tatiana in ""Onegin"", Nikiya in ""La Bayadère"", and Katherina in ""The Taming of the Shrew"". Hodgkinson has an extensive Balanchine including Terpsichore in ""Apollo"", as well as lead roles in ""Diamonds and Rubies"" from ""Jewels"", ""Theme and Variations, Stravinsky Violin Concerto"", ""Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux"", ""The Four Temperaments"" and ""Serenade"". Lead roles for other choreographers include Natalia Makarova’s ""Paquita"", Glen Tetley’s ""Voluntaries"", ""Alice"", ""La Ronde"", and ""Sphinx"", Victor Gsovsky’s bravura pas de deux, ""Grand Pas Classique"", Harald Lander’s ""Etudes"", and multiple works by"
"Lilac Fairy & Carabosse in ""The Sleeping Beauty"", Sugar Plum Fairy in ""The Nutcracker"", Nikiya & Gamzatti in ""La Bayadère"" and Myrtha in ""Giselle"". She has also performed in many ballets choreographed by the Royal Ballet's most important choreographers, Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Kenneth MacMillan. Her Ashton roles include: the title role in ""Sylvia"", Lady Elgar in ""Enigma Variations"", Natalia Petrovna in ""A Month in the Country"", Marguerite in ""Marguerite and Armand"", Josephine in ""Wedding Bouquet"" and ""Monotones II"". Her MacMillan roles include: the title role in ""Manon"", Empress Elisabeth in ""Mayerling"", The Chosen One in ""The Rite of"
"spot with a major ballet company, and, at the urging of her superiors, took the name Maria Tallchief. She spent the next five years with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, where she met legendary choreographer George Balanchine. When Balanchine co-founded what would become the New York City Ballet in 1946, Tallchief became the company's first star. The combination of Balanchine's difficult choreography and Tallchief's passionate dancing revolutionized the ballet. Her 1949 role in ""The Firebird"" catapulted Tallchief to the top of the ballet world, establishing her as a prima ballerina. Her role as the Sugarplum Fairy in ""The Nutcracker"""
"Anna Rose O'Sullivan Anna Rose O'Sullivan (born 16 April 1994) is an English ballet dancer and is a soloist at the Royal Ballet. She commenced her dancing career as a member of the London Children's Ballet. Later she trained at the Royal Ballet School and joined the Royal Ballet Company in 2012. In 2015 she underwent her debut as Clara in The Nutcracker, after receiving the endorsement of Sir Peter Wright, and in autumn 2017 debuted as Alice in Alice in the Wonderland. Her other notable roles include Princess Florine in the Sleeping Beauty. She is the winner of the"
"Petipa, who exactly choreographed the first production has been debated. Petipa began work on the choreography in August 1892; however, illness removed him from its completion and his assistant of seven years, Lev Ivanov, was brought in. Although Ivanov is often credited as the choreographer, some contemporary accounts credit Petipa. The performance was conducted by Riccardo Drigo, with Antonietta Dell'Era as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Pavel Gerdt as Prince Coqueluche, Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara, Sergei Legat as the Nutcracker-Prince, and Timofey Stukolkin as Drosselmeyer. Unlike in many later productions, the children's roles were performed by real children – students of"
"suite became instantly popular, with almost every number encored at its premiere, while the complete ballet did not begin to achieve its great popularity until after the George Balanchine staging became a hit in New York City. The suite became very popular on the concert stage, and was excerpted in Disney's ""Fantasia"", with everything omitted prior to Sugar Plum Fairies. ""The Nutcracker Suite"" should not be mistaken for the complete ballet. The outline below represents the selection and sequence of the ""Nutcracker Suite"" culled by the composer. The ""Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky’s Flower Waltz"" is a successful piano arrangement from one"
"the Prince sail away to a castle where they are welcomed by the Prince's Royal Court. There, the Prince and the jealous, one-eyed Pasha, who strongly resembles Drosselmeyer, develop a rivalry over Clara. Under the Pasha's direction, the members of the court perform ""divertissements"", and Clara performs the ""Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"". She and the Prince dance a romantic ""Pas de Deux"". At the end, she and the Prince, locked in each other's arms, are magically levitated by the Pasha after bidding farewell to the Court. Suddenly the Pasha waves his hand, and Clara and her Prince are"
"and Marfa Muravieva (as the Butterfly). A rose and a violet have both become enamoured by a gorgeous butterfly who flutters around them, paying court to their sweet embrace. The blossoms attempt to succeed the other with their floral charms, however at the end of these proceedings, the butterfly chooses to fly away rather than exclude one over the other. La Rose, la violette et le papillon La Rose, la violette et le papillon (""The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly"") is a ballet ""divertissement"" in one act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Duke Peter Georgievich of"
"be able to keep dancing if she keeps riding her horse, Sugar. She choreographed (with Chernov and ABT artistic director Kevin McKenzie) a new production of Tchaikovsky's ""The Sleeping Beauty"", in which, after a more than 20 years absence from the stage, she danced the role of ""Carabosse, the Wicked Fairy"". In 2010, Kirkland and Chernov established the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet (GKACB), where they serve as co-Artistic Directors. The Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet is now accompanied by the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet company. The ballet company presents classical ballets in New York City. Kirkland was born"
"in Russia before: in 1886 the ballerina Antonietta Dell'Era (noted for creating the rôle of the Sugarplum Fairy in ""The Nutcracker"" in 1892) performed excerpts from the ballet at the Arcadia Theatre of St. Petersburg, and in 1892 the ballerina Carlotta Brianza (noted creator of the rôle of Princess Aurora in ""The Sleeping Beauty"" in 1890) performed the full-length work at the Fantasia Theatre in Moscow. The Mariinsky Theatre's production was originally planned for the 1900–1901 season in a staging supervised by Sergei Diaghilev, with décors and costumes designed by Alexandre Benois and choreography by the brothers Sergei and Nikolai"
"Ballet blanc In ballet, a ballet blanc (, ""white ballet"") is a scene in which the ballerina and the female ""corps de ballet"" all wear white dresses or tutus. Typical in the Romantic style of ballet from the nineteenth century, ""ballets blancs"" are usually populated by ghosts, dryads, naiads, enchanted maidens, fairies, and other supernatural creatures and spirits. A precursor of the genre was ""Ballet of the Nuns"", an episode in act 3 of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera ""Robert le Diable"". The ghosts of cloistered nuns who, in life, were unfaithful to their vows are summoned from their graves to tempt"
"""Danses caracterisques"" of Act II. The only one able to do so is Drosselmeyer's nephew, who, after biting a hard nut, breaks the spell placed on Princess Pirlipat, but is turned into a Nutcracker. Princess Pirlipat promptly rejects him, whereupon Clara (here called Marie) declares her love for him and the spell on Drosselmeyer's nephew is broken. The Sugar Plum Fairy is eliminated as in the Baryshnikov ""Nutcracker"", and Marie performs all of her dances. Her relationship with Drosselmeyer's nephew becomes overtly romantic at the end, with the two of them French kissing all through the ""Final Waltz"" which, in"
"Zaira Cosico Zaira Cosico is a ballerina from the Philippines. She is one of a few successful scholars of Liza Macuja's dance company, Ballet Manila. She first learned to dance at the Halili Cruz School of Dance. Cosico has been instructed in the Vaganova method by Tatiana A. Udalenkova of the Academy of Russia Ballet (Vaganova Choreographic Institute). She has also worked with Viktor Savaliev, Sergey Vikulov and Evgeny Scherbakov. Cosico’s most notable performance was in a ballet version of Pinocchio, in which she portrayed the Blue Fairy; however, during the entire performance, she was wearing a white tutu. In"
"However, her dreams of becoming the Sugar Plum Fairy are always stopped by Mark's ex-girlfriend. Eventually the director casts Lily in the role. However, before her debut, she receives word that Beth was killed in a car accident. Mark and the director, fearing for her well-being, refuse to let her dance. Thus, she returns to Georgia and becomes the surrogate mother to her niece, Sadie. Eight years later, Lily is now a yoga instructor. She no longer dances and no longer has room in her life for romance. Sadie has followed in her aunt's footsteps, becoming a ballerina herself (and"
"Susana Agüero Susana Agüero (1944– March 26, 2012) was an Argentine ballet dancer who also danced in musicals and shows. She took a number of leading roles and worked for six years in France. Agüero was born in Buenos Aires. She trained at the ""Instituto Superior de Arte"" at the Teatro Colón (Columbus Theatre) which is the capital's main opera house. Her teachers included Gema Castillo, Michel Borowsky, María Ruanova, Adolfo Andrade and Serge Golovine. She soon became a soloist. Among her most important roles were Odette in ""Swan Lake"" and the Lilac Fairy in ""The Sleeping Beauty"". She also"
"the locket and asks her to dance. She answers, ""I couldn't say 'no' to the King"", and the couple waltz together. A snow-globe shows the Prince – now a king – and the Sugarplum Princess dancing happily in the Palace courtyard. The story goes back to Kelly and Barbie. Kelly realizes the importance of not giving up and makes one more attempt at the ballet move she just can't do. Kelly and Barbie dance to the Sugar Plum Fairy and Kelly finally gets her steps right; Barbie quotes: ""I always knew you could..."" On October 23, 2001 the movie had"
"ballets choreographed by Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Ninette de Valois, and two South Africans, David Poole and John Cranko. Noted for his performances as Jasper the Pot Boy in ""Pineapple Poll"" and as Bootface in ""The Lady and the Fool"", both choreographed by Cranko, Mosaval was also acclaimed as the Blue Boy in ""Les Patineurs"" and as Puck in ""The Dream"", both choreographed by Ashton, as well as the Blue Bird in ""The Sleeping Beauty"". He developed a global reputation as a brilliant character dancer with impeccable technique. One Scottish critic wrote about his performance as Puck in 1967: ""Puck"
"choreographed by Nijinska, the music being Maurice Ravel's ""La valse"". It opened in Monte Carlo in 1929. A version of the ballet ""Le Baiser de la Fée"" [Kiss of the Fairy] originated when Ida Rubinstein asked Igor Stravinsky to compose music to be choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska. It would be staged in 1928. ""The idea was that I should compose something inspired by the music of Tchaikovsky,"" wrote Stravinsky. For a theme he chose Hans Christian Andersen's 'eerie' tale of The Ice-Maiden, to which he put a positive spin: ""A fairy imprints her magic kiss on a child at birth"
"opens and now come characters representative of the present, who dance contemporary dances. Finally, the door of the Temple of the Future opens and Ysaure and Arthur present the ""Grand Pas de deux éléctrique"". The ballet ends with a final ensemble and apotheosis. Bluebeard (ballet) Barbe-bleue (en. ""Bluebeard"") (ru. «Синяя борода», ""Sinjaja boroda"") is a ""ballet-féerie"" in three acts and seven scenes, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Pyotr Schenk. The libretto was created by the author and dramatist Countess Lydia Pashkova from the fairy tale ""Bluebeard"" by Charles Perrault. The ballet was first presented by the"
"at Sugar Plum, which zaps her and turns her back into a porcelain doll for high treason to the Realms while saving Mother Ginger. Thanked for restoring peace among the Realms, Clara promises to visit the Realms in the future and returns back to London, where time has hardly passed since she left. She then approaches her father, apologizes for her earlier behavior, and asks him to dance. He accepts, and Clara opens her music box. Clara's father becomes emotional and reveals that the music box's song was the first song that he and Clara's mother had ever danced to."
"with Cinderella. The Prince suggests that Cinderella also try the slipper and, to the astonishment of all, the slipper fits and stays on her foot. The onlookers are struck by Cinderella's beauty and the Prince, delighted, declares his love to her; her sisters beg forgiveness for treating her badly. She forgives them and the heralds announce Cinderella as the Prince's bride. The entire court congratulates them. Cinderella (Fitinhof-Schell) Cinderella (ru. «Золушка», ""Zolushka"") (fr. ""Cendrillon"") is a ""ballet-féerie"" in three acts, with the choreography of Enrico Cecchetti (Acts I and III) and Lev Ivanov (Act II) supervised by Marius Petipa. Music"
"Alla Osipenko Alla Yevgenyevna Osipenko (Russian:Алла Евгеньевна Осипенко , born 16 June 1932 in Leningrad) is a retired Soviet ballerina. She studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School (now Vaganova Academy) in the class of Agrippina Vaganova. Upon graduation she joined the Kirov Ballet (now the Mariinsky Ballet) in 1950, and was promoted to prima ballerina in 1954. Her repertoire included: Lilac Fairy in ""The Sleeping Beauty"", Odette-Odile in ""Swan Lake"", Gamzatti in ""La Bayadère"", Waltz and Mazurka in ""Chopiniana"", Masha in ""The Nutcracker"", Frigia in ""Spartak"", the Mistress of the Copper Mountain in ""The Stone Flower"" (1957), and Mekhmene-Banu in"
"Swanhilda in ""Coppélia"", Aurora in ""The Sleeping Beauty"", the Sylph in ""La Sylphide"", Sugar Plum Fairy in ""The Nutcracker"", the title role in ""Giselle"", as well as the role of Myrtha Queen of the Wilis, Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"", Taglioni in ""Pas de Quatre"", Desdemona in ""Othello"", Marguerite and Prudence in ""La Traviata"", and the elder sister in Frank Staff's ""Transfigured Night"" which she performed at the London premiere. She has also danced leading roles in many neoclassical and modern works by notable choreographers such as George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Glen Tetley, Jose Limon and Istvan Herczog. In addition"
"and to choreograph her own ballet, ""Speaking In Strings"", for her company. She returned to dancing after the birth of her son in 2002. Bears retired from the Houston Ballet in 2009. Her classical repertoire with the Houston Ballet included: Odette/Odile in ""Swan Lake"", Giselle in ""Giselle"", Aurora and Princess Florise in ""The Sleeping Beauty"", Cinderella in ""Cinderella"", the Sylph in ""La Sylphide"", Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"", Cleopatra in ""Cleopatra"", the Snow Maiden in ""The Snow Maiden"", the Sugarplum Fairy and the Snow Queen in ""The Nutcracker"", Valencienne and Hanna in ""The Merry Widow"", Solvieg and the Green Lady"