"Driads and Mercedes in ""Don Quixote"", Giselle and Myrta in ""Giselle"", the Sugar Plum Fairy in ""The Nutcracker"", Princess Aurora and Princess Florine in ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and Odette-Odile in ""Swan Lake"". She also danced the pas de deux ""Le Corsaire"", ""Diana and Acteon"", and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux. Dvorovenko joined American Ballet Theatre in August 1996 and was promoted to soloist in 1997 and principal dancer in August 2000. Her repertoire with the Company includes Mathilda Kchessinska and the Tsarina in ""Anastasia"", Gamzatti and a Shade in ""La Bayadère"", the Fairy Godmother in ""Cinderella"", Swanilda in ""Coppélia"", Medora in"
"for the ballerina Pelageya Karpakova (also known as Polina Karpakova), who performed the role of Odette, with ""première danseur"" Victor Gillert as Prince Siegfried. Karpakova may also have danced the part Odile, although it is believed the ballet originally called for two different dancers. It is now common practice for the same ballerina to dance both Odette and Odile. The Russian ballerina Anna Sobeshchanskaya was originally cast as Odette, but was replaced when a governing official in Moscow complained about her, claiming she had accepted jewelry from him, only to then marry a fellow danseur and sell the pieces for"
"April 1999. It had been previewed three years prior to it opening at the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. Martins used the style of neo-classic choreography and it was more of a dark fairytale than whimsical. The only traditional component of this dance was the original Tchaikovsky music score. The roles portrayed in the ballet were more provocative and mysterious than in the 19th century original. As in most productions of the ballet, the ballerina that originally plays Odette also plays Odile, and for this role she is dressed in black and red tulle rather than white feathers. Prince Siegfried"
"Irina Kolesnikova Irina Kolesnikova (born 1980) is a Russian ballet dancer. She graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1998, class of Elvira Korkorina, and after being rejected by the Kirov and Mikhailovsky Theatre, she joined the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre of Konstantin Tachkin. With this corps, she has toured internationally, playing the title role in ""Giselle"", and Odette/Odile in ""Swan Lake"". Other roles in her repertoire include Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Masha in The Nutcracker, lead dancer in Legend of Love. In September 2007 she danced Sheherezade for the first time at the Gala des Etoiles in Paris,"
"for the stage - before divorcing him and marrying Sviatoslav Kusnetsov. Both her husbands were dancers. and her daughter, Katerina, and her son, Nikolai, both became dancers in the Maryinsky. Zubkovskaya was unusual as she was a Kirov dancer with a Bolshoi background. This arose as she was evacuated to Perm, a wartime haven for Soviet artists and arts institutions, where she joined the Kirov Ballet. She danced many major roles of the classical repertory, including Odette/Odile in ""Swan Lake"", Nikiya in ""La Bayadere"", Kitri in ""Don Quixote"", the Lilac Fairy in ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and the title role of"
"silver medal at the Japanese International and Modern Dance Competition in 2005. In the same year, she was nominated for Best Female Dancer in Britain's National Dance Awards, after a single performance of ""Swan Lake"" at the Royal Albert Hall. Irina Kolesnikova Irina Kolesnikova (born 1980) is a Russian ballet dancer. She graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1998, class of Elvira Korkorina, and after being rejected by the Kirov and Mikhailovsky Theatre, she joined the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre of Konstantin Tachkin. With this corps, she has toured internationally, playing the title role in ""Giselle"", and Odette/Odile in"
"narrative action"". Such ballets are theatrical works that have characters and ""tell a story"", Dance movements in ballet ""are often closely related to everyday forms of physical expression, [so that] there is an expressive quality inherent in nearly all dancing"", and this is used to convey both action and emotions; mime is also used. Examples include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ""Swan Lake"", which tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse, Sergei Prokofiev's ballet ""Romeo and Juliet"", based on Shakespeare's famous play, and Igor Stravinsky's ""Petrushka"", which tells tells the story of the"
"Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. Her mother was of Mexican ancestry. Cynthia Harvey Cynthia Harvey (born May 17, 1957) is an American dance teacher and former ballet dancer. She was a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre. Harvey was born in California, and joined American Ballet Theatre in 1974. Her roles included Odette/Odile in ""Swan Lake"". While Mikhail Baryshnikov was the artistic director at ABT, he personally selected her to perform as the prima ballerina in Baryshnikov's filmed production of ""Don Quixote"". She was a principal of the Royal Ballet, and made guest appearances with other companies before"
"de ballet. His mentor was Nikolay Tsiskaridze and within one year he was given the leading role in the ballet ""The Nutcracker"". From 2009 he studied under Nikolai Fadeyechev and since 2016 his repetiteur has been Victor Barykin. Ovcharenko’s repertoire covers most of the classical romantic roles: Romeo, The Prince in ""The Nutcracker"", and Prince Siegfried, as well as leading roles in neoclassical productions such as George Balanchine’s ""Apollo"" and ""Jewels"", ""Lady of the Camellias"" by John Neumeier, ""Onegin"" by John Cranko, ""Lost Illusions"" by Alexei Ratmansky, and ""Marco Spada"" by Pierre Lacotte. With an ever-eager interest in exploring new"
"and a ballet. The opera would be ""Iolanta"". For the ballet, Tchaikovsky would again join forces with Marius Petipa, with whom he had collaborated on ""The Sleeping Beauty."" The material Petipa chose was an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's story ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"", by Alexandre Dumas called ""The Story of a Nutcracker"". The plot of Hoffmann's story (and Dumas' adaptation) was greatly simplified for the two-act ballet. Hoffmann's tale contains a long flashback story within its main plot titled ""The Tale of the Hard Nut"", which explains how the Prince was turned into the Nutcracker. This"
"guest performances. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there have been a few attempts to reduce the theatre's traditional dependence on large state subsidies. Corporate sponsorship occurs for some productions, but state funding is still the lifeblood of the company. The Bolshoi has been associated from its beginnings with ballet. Tchaikovsky's ballet ""Swan Lake"" premiered at the theatre on 4 March 1877. Other staples of the Bolshoi repertoire include Tchaikovsky's ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and ""The Nutcracker"", Adam's ""Giselle"", Prokofiev's ""Romeo and Juliet"", and Khachaturian's ""Spartacus"". The chief ballet conductor from 1923 to 1963 was Yuri Fayer. After the death"
"2002; it was her first principal role Tereshkina has performed in Mariinsky's extensive repertoire of classical and modern ballet. 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"". Writing in ""The Daily Telegraph"", Sarah Crompton referred to her as a ""rising talent"", describing her as a ""filigree beauty"" with ""fiendish fouettés"". She created the role of Parasha in Yuri Smekalov's production of ""The Bronze Horseman"" (2016), Paquita in Smekalov's revival of the ballet of the same name (2017), and"
"quality. ""The Sleeping Beauty"" is Tchaikovsky's longest ballet, lasting nearly four hours at full length (counting the intermissions). The complete score runs practically 3 hours. It is nearly always cut. At the premiere, Tsar Alexander III summoned Tchaikovsky to the imperial box. The Tsar made the simple remark 'Very nice,' which seemed to have irritated Tchaikovsky, who had likely expected a more favorable response. ""The Royal Court"": ""The Fairies"": Carabosse, the evil fairy ""The Four Suitors"": ""The Prince's Hunting Party"": ""Fairy-Tale Characters"": Setting Prologue (The Christening)<br>King Florestan XXIV and his Queen have welcomed their first child, Princess Aurora, and declare"
"and finally, became a principal. In January 2011, he left the Mariinsky and joined the Mikhailovsky Ballet as a principal. His repertoire includes James in ""La Sylphide"", Solor in ""La Bayadère,"" Prince Siegfried in ""Swan Lake,"" the Nutcracker-Prince in ""The Nutcracker"", Prince Désiré in ""The Sleeping Beauty"", Basilio in ""Don Quixote,"" and Romeo in ""Romeo and Juliet"". He has also danced the lead roles in ballets by George Balanchine, such as ""Apollo"" and ""Jewels"". In 2006, he danced the lead role of Matteo in the premiére of Pierre Lacotte's revival of ""Ondine"". Sarafanov's wife is Mariinsky ballerina, Olesya Novikova; the"
"are performed by mixed dancers, while others, such as ""Cossack's Cavalry Dance"", are performed by male dancers only. The ballet is under the direction of Lev Nikolaevich Kulikov National Artist of Russia, the main ballet master, and maintains the heights of choreographic art with honour. The priority in its repertoire is taken by the military compositions: ""Matroskaya barynya"", ""Kazachiya cavalry plyaska"", ""Festive march"", ""Invitation to dance"" and others. The ballet performs a lot of Russian folk dances. The classical repertoire contains ""Poloveckie plyasky"" from the opera ""Prince Igor"" written by Alexander Borodin. This is from our dance classics, but we"
"Festival in 2008, appearing at the Tatar Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre as Odette/Odile in ""Swan Lake"", and as Fairy Lilacs in ""The Sleeping Beauty"". Allash participated in the XIII Festival of Classical Ballet in 2016, reprising her role as Nikiya in ""La Bayadère"" at the Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Maria Allash Maria Yevgenevna Allash (Russian: Мария Евгеньевна Аллаш) (born 9 March 1976) is a Russian ballet dancer, and principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet since 1994. Born in Moscow, then part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union, Allash joined the Moscow State"
"The Nutcracker The Nutcracker ( / ""Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya"" ; ) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"". Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete ""Nutcracker"" has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around"
"pleasure studying the work and had come away with adequate inspiration to do it justice. The choreographer was Marius Petipa, ballet master of the Imperial Ballet, who wrote a very detailed list of instructions as to the musical requirements. Tchaikovsky worked quickly on the new work at Frolovskoye; he began initial sketches in the winter of 1888 and began orchestration on the work on 30 May 1889. The ballet's focus was undeniably on the two main conflicting forces of good (the Lilac Fairy) and evil (Carabosse); each has a leitmotif representing them, which run through the entire ballet, serving as"
"Kristina Kretova Kristina Kretova () is a Russian soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet. Kretova was born in a city of Russia called Oryol. She was a graduate of the Moscow State Choreographic Academy in 2002 and after it joined the Kremlin Ballet Theater where she plays such roles as ""Odette-Odile"" in ""Swan Lake"", ""Kitri"" in Don Quixote, ""Marie"" in ""the Nutcracker"", and ""Emmy Lawrence"" in ""Tom Sawyer"". She also played a double role of both Princesses ""Florina"" and ""Aurora"" in Sleeping Beauty and also played roles of main characters such as ""Giselle"" in the play of the same name and"
"This sorcerer transformed Odette from a Princess into a swan, making true love the only thing that can break her bonds. Swan Lake (Martins) Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet (NYCB) ballet master in chief Peter Martins (after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, and George Balanchine) to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music (1875–76). The premiere took place 27 October 1996, with the Royal Danish Ballet at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen; the NYCB premiere was 29 April 1999 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. Peter Martins' wife, NYCB principal dancer Darci Kistler, chose to include the"
"Tchaikovsky, choreography by Yuri Grigorovich) Prince Désiré, Blue Bird (""The Sleeping Beauty"" by Tchaikovsky, new version by Yuri Grigorovich) Antoine Mistral (""Flames of Paris"", choreography by Alexei Ratmansky) 2014 The first dancer (""Lost Illusions"", choreography by Alexei Ratmansky) Albrecht (""Giselle"", choreography by Yuri Grigorovich) Prince Siegfried (""Swan Lake"", choreography by Yuri Grigorovich) Lucentio (""The Taming of the Shrew"", choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot） 2015 Armand (""Lady of the Camellias"", choreography by John Neumeier) Antoine Mistral (""Flames of Paris"", choreography by Alexei Ratmansky) The leading couple of Diamonds（""Jewels"", choreography by George Balancine) Albrecht (""Giselle"", XIII Mari El Ballet Festival, with Olga Chelpanova)"
"de Deux"" (1960), ""The Figure in the Carpet"" (1960), ""Liebeslieder Walzer"" (1960), ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1962), ""Emeralds"" (1967), ""Glinkaiana"" (1967), ""La Source"" (1968), ""Pulcinella"" (1972), and ""Sonatine"" (1973). Of all these roles, Verdy is perhaps most identified with ""Emeralds"", the opening ballet of the triptych ""Jewels"", and with ""Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux"". Partnered with Conrad Ludlow in both these works, she embodied the Romantic spirit of Fauré's music in the former and the charm and effervescent joy of Tchaikovsky's music in the latter. Since its premiere, ""Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux"" has been performed by many ballerinas in numerous international"
"Cynthia Harvey Cynthia Harvey (born May 17, 1957) is an American dance teacher and former ballet dancer. She was a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre. Harvey was born in California, and joined American Ballet Theatre in 1974. Her roles included Odette/Odile in ""Swan Lake"". While Mikhail Baryshnikov was the artistic director at ABT, he personally selected her to perform as the prima ballerina in Baryshnikov's filmed production of ""Don Quixote"". She was a principal of the Royal Ballet, and made guest appearances with other companies before retiring from dancing in 1995. Now Ms. Harvey is Artistic Director, American"
"Swan Lake (1895) The 1917 Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo revival of Swan Lake is a famous version of the ballet ""Swan Lake"", (ru. ""Лебединое Озеро""), (fr. ""Le Lac des Cygnes""). This is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based on an ancient German legend, presented in either four acts, four scenes (primarily outside Russia and Eastern Europe), three acts, four scenes (primarily in Russia and Eastern Europe) or, more rarely, in two acts, four scenes. Originally choreographed by Julius Reisinger to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (opus 20), it was first presented as ""The Lake of the Swans"" by the Ballet of"
"The Royal Ballet did not present the work until 2001. The choreography for his ballet includes a wide range of styles, including folk, modern, ballroom and acrobatic. The music takes inspiration from the composer he worked with when he was first introduced to the story – Kurt-Heinz Stolze arranged music by Tchaikovsky, which came principally from his piano works rather than his orchestral works, to accompany the dancers. The original principals were Marcia Haydée as Tatiana, Ray Barra as Onegin, Egon Madsen as Lensky and Ana Cardus as Olga. Between 1965 and 1967 Cranko revised ""Onegin"" several times. His scenario"
"The Little Humpbacked Horse (ballet) The Little Humpbacked Horse, or The Tsar Maiden (a.k.a. Konyok Gorbunok ili Tsar-Devitsa, or Le Petit cheval bossu, ou La Tsar-Demoiselle) is a ballet in four acts and eight scenes with apotheosis. The libretto is by Arthur Saint-Léon, based on the fairy tale ""The Little Humpbacked Horse"" by Pyotr Yershov. However, the choreographer substantially deviated from Yershov's original tale. The ballet shows how Ivan the fool, with the aid of a magical horse, defeats an evil Khan and wins the hand of the Tsar- Maiden. Eventually Ivan replaces the ineffective and incompetent Tsar and becomes"
"the ballet's villain changing from Odette's stepmother to the magician von Rothbart, and the ballet's finale: instead of the lovers simply drowning at the hand of Odette's stepmother as in the original 1877 scenario, Odette commits suicide by drowning herself, with Prince Siegfried choosing to die as well, rather than live without her, and soon the lovers' spirits are reunited in an ""apotheosis"". Aside from the revision of the libretto the ballet was changed from four acts to three—with Act II becoming Act I-Scene 2. All was ready by the beginning of 1895 and the ballet had its première on"
"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"
"Bolshoi Ballet in February 2012. Evgenia Obraztsova is frequently invited as a guest soloist to other countries, and is known for dancing leading roles in ballets such as ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""Ondine"", ""Giselle"", and ""La Sylphide"". She has won several awards, including the Gold Medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2005. Also an actress, she portrayed a ballerina in the 2005 film ""The Russian Dolls"", and was one of the ballerinas profiled in the 2006 documentary ""Ballerina"". In high demand, she was again asked to dance the leading role in Vikharev Sergei's ""The Awakening of Flora"" in 2007."
"The Daughter of the Snows The Daughter of the Snows (also known as ""Snegurochka"" or ""La Fille des neiges"") is a fantastic ballet in three acts and five scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Ludwig Minkus. The libretto by Marius Petipa is based on the play ""The Snow Maiden"" by Alexander Ostrovsky, inspired by a Russian folk fairy tale about Snegurochka from the folklore collection by Alexander Afanasyev. The ballet premiered on 7 January 1879 at the St. Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia by the Imperial Ballet. Principal dancers: Ekaterina Vazem (as the"
"Theatre Ballet in works such as Frédéric Chopin's ""Les Sylphides"", Adolphe Adam's ""Giselle"", Léo Delibes' ""Coppelia"", and as Odette in Peter Tchaikovsky's ""Swan Lake"". Her 1967 performance in ""Giselle"" was notable also for her collaboration with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev. Fontenla performed in Paris in 1968 and in Santiago, Chile in 1969, where she opened the Municipal Theater's ballet season that year. She organized a tour of opera houses in the Argentine hinterland in 1970, and was invited to direct the ballet company in Milan's renowned La Scala. Her previous collaboration with Nureyev earned the Colón Theatre his choosing"
"the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, with Aleksey Yermolayev (Jérôme), Anastasia Abramova (Jeanne), Nadezhda Kapustina (Thérèse) and Marina Semenova (Mireille de Poitiers). The original production and choreography was reconstructed in 2008 by Alexei Ratmansky for the Bolshoi Ballet and is available on DVD with Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova. ""The Flames of Paris"" is a so-called ""revolutionary"" ballet which takes as its subject the French Revolution, including in its scenario the storming of the Tuileries Palace by the Marceliers and their victorious march on Paris. The plot is taken from the book of Felix Gras ""Les Marceliers"". Although its setting is"
"Bozgul Isoeva Bozgul Mamedova Isoeva (November 3, 1937 – 2008) was a Tajikistani ballet dancer of the Soviet era. Isoeva was born in Dushanbe, and grew up in an orphanage in Shahri Nov. She studied at the Leninabad Institute of Choreography from 1949 until 1958, in the latter year becoming a soloist at the Ayni State Theater for Opera and Ballet; she was among the school's first graduates, and while there studied with M. V. Boyarchikov and N. A. Zheleznov. Among the roles which she had in her repertoire there were the title role in ""Giselle"" by Adolphe Adam; Odette"