In which ballet does the Sugar Plum Fairy appear?
"have been because "" Seven Lively Arts"" was only an hour long. This marked the first telecast not only of the Balanchine version but of any staging of the ballet. CBS's ""Playhouse 90"" broadcast a more complete (but still abridged) version of the Balanchine ""Nutcracker"", narrated by actress June Lockhart, who was then starring as the mother in CBS's ""Lassie"", in 1958; it was the first ""Nutcracker"" broadcast in color. There were only four commercial breaks. This television production starred Balanchine himself as Drosselmeyer, Diana Adams as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Bonnie Bedelia in an early role as Clara, and"
"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"
"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"""
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"""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"
"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"
"a demi-soloist in 2005, and was promoted to soloist in 2006, and to principal dancer in 2007. Salenko joined the Royal Ballet of London as a guest artist in the 2013/14 season to dance Kitri in Carlos Acosta's production of ""Don Quixote"", followed by Odette-Odile in ""Swan Lake"". During the 2015/16 season she appeared as Juliet in Kenneth MacMillan's ""Romeo and Juliet"", in George Balanchine's ""Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux"", as the Young Girl in Frederick Ashton's ""The Two Pigeons"", as the Sugarplum Fairy in Peter Wright's ""The Nutcracker"", and in the title role in ""Giselle"". During the 2016/17 she is"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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."
"is one of the composer's most popular compositions. The music belongs to the Romantic Period and contains some of his most memorable melodies, several of which are frequently used in television and film. (They are often heard in TV commercials shown during the Christmas season.) The ""Trepak"", or ""Russian dance"", is one of the most recognizable pieces in the ballet, along with the famous ""Waltz of the Flowers"" and ""March"", as well as the ubiquitous ""Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"". The composer's reverence for Rococo and late 18th-century music can be detected in passages such as the Overture, the"
"binds the jaw with a handkerchief. In addition, the ""Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy"" is moved from near the end of Act II to near the beginning of the second act, just after the Sugar Plum Fairy makes her first appearance. To help the musical transition, the tarantella that comes before the dance is cut. In the 1993 film version of the Balanchine version, just as in the telecast of the Baryshnikov one, the ""Miniature Overture"" is cut in half, and the opening credits are seen as the overture is heard. The film's final credits feature a reprise of"
"Two weeks later she skated as a pair team with her then-husband in the opening of the Rockefeller Center. In 1994, Flack was invited to join ""The Nutcracker on Ice"". She co-starred as the Sugar Plum Fairy alongside Olympic champions Oksana Baiul and Brian Boitano. Still driven to win the US Open, she trained daily from 2 am to 4 am. Flack entered the US Open, where the reigning world champion Yuka Sato also planned to compete. Performing to Aretha Franklin's ""Think"", Flack took first place after the Technical Program and went on to win the title. Shortly after, she"
"in 1982, the youngest ever at 17 years. Signature roles include Balanchine's ""Jewels"" (Diamonds), ""Agon"", ""Prodigal Son"" and ""Symphony in C"". She danced the rôle of the Sugarplum Fairy in City Ballet's 1993 film version of ""The Nutcracker"". She eventually wrote her own autobiography """"Ballerina: My Story"""" as a children's book. Kistler joined the SAB's permanent faculty in 1994. Throughout her career, she had numerous dance-related injuries, including a broken ankle that sidelined her for three years. She went through several surgeries, including for her back. In February 2009, Kistler announced her retirement from New York City Ballet at the"
"""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"
"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"
"his sister's death influenced him to compose a melancholy, descending scale melody for the adagio of the Grand Pas de Deux. One novelty in Tchaikovsky's original score was the use of the celesta, a new instrument Tchaikovsky had discovered in Paris. He wanted it genuinely for the character of the Sugar Plum Fairy to characterize her because of its ""heavenly sweet sound"". It appears not only in her ""Dance"", but also in other passages in act 2. (However, he first wrote for the celesta in his symphonic ballad ""The Voyevoda"" the previous year.) Tchaikovsky also uses toy instruments during the"
"Suzanne Charny Suzanne Charny (born March 8, 1944) is an American actress, dancer, and sculptor. Charny's first big break came in early 1965, when she was cast as one of the featured dancers in the weekly NBC musical variety series ""Hullabaloo"", which aired until spring of 1966. She was the lead frug dancer in the original Broadway production of ""Sweet Charity"" and reprised the role in the movie version (1969). From 1970 to 1986, she frequently appeared on television shows such as """", ""Kojak"", ""The Rockford Files"", ""Starsky & Hutch"", ""The Incredible Hulk"" and others. Charny is also a sculptor."
"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"
"of the most reliable partners in the company, often being paired with Maria Tallchief. In one notable instance, he saved the opening night performance of Balanchine's elaborate production of ""The Nutcracker"" on February 2, 1954. Balanchine had choreographed the ""grand pas de deux"" for Tallchief and André Eglevsky, but at the eleventh hour Eglevsky injured his ankle and was unable to perform. With no understudy on standby, Magallanes learned the technically challenging part in one day's rehearsal and danced the Cavalier of the Sugar Plum Fairy to great acclaim. Magallanes was also a dancer-actor of unique lyric gifts. A slender"
"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"
"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"
"in London, as a Prix De Lausanne apprentice in 2002, was promoted to artist in 2003, first artist in 2006 and first soloist in 2008. Her first major solo role was in ""Sleeping Beauty"" as ""Princess Florine"". In 2008, Choe was promoted to first soloist, danced the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, and created one of the six female roles in Wayne McGregor's ""Infra"", with music by Max Richter. In 2009, The Guardian chose Choe as the dancer on their ""hotlist"" of rising stars to watch, quoting Lauren Cuthbertson, ""I can't take my eyes off her. She radiates joy"