"In 2001, Yury Grigorovich personally invited her to return to the Bolshoi Ballet to dance the double-role of Odette-Odile in ""Swan Lake"" at the Bolshoi Theatre, for which Volochkova was awarded the prestigious Prix Benois de la Danse in 2002. In the same year, she was also awarded with the title of Honoured Artist of Russia. After various disagreements with the Bolshoi Ballet over the years, Volochkova's contract was terminated in 2003. It became a major news story worldwide as it was reported that the Bolshoi Ballet had dismissed her for being too tall and heavy. A Moscow court ruled"
"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"
"August 2012 she was offered a second short-term contract with the company. Succeeding in the external audition in July 2013, Hannah O'Neill was offered a life-time contract. Now a regular member of the Paris Opera Ballet, Hannah O'Neill moved up through the ranks, being promoted in each Paris Opera Ballet internal promotion contest from 2013 to 2015. On 3 November 2015, Hannah O'Neill was ranked first in the Paris Opera Ballet internal promotion contest. Consequently, since 1 January 2016 she dances as a first soloist. In spring 2015 Hannah O'Neill took over the role of Odile and Odette in Swan"
"Ondine, ou La naïade Ondine, ou La naïade is a ballet in three acts and six scenes with choreography by Jules Perrot, music by Cesare Pugni, and a libretto inspired by the novel ""Undine"" by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Pugni dedicated his score to Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge, a long-time balletomane and patron of the arts in London. Whilst the original London production used the title ""Ondine, ou La naïade"", Perrot staged a revival of the ballet under the title, ""La naïade et le pêcheur"", a title which was used for all subsequent productions of the ballet. The ballet"
"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"
"1851. Sir Frederick Ashton paid tribute to Perrot in his own choreography for Hans Werner Henze's music for ""Ondine"" by incorporating his own version of the ""Shadow Dance"" into the first act. Ondine, ou La naïade Ondine, ou La naïade is a ballet in three acts and six scenes with choreography by Jules Perrot, music by Cesare Pugni, and a libretto inspired by the novel ""Undine"" by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Pugni dedicated his score to Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge, a long-time balletomane and patron of the arts in London. Whilst the original London production used the title ""Ondine,"
"Alexandra Balashova Alexandra Balashova (May 3, 1887 — January 5, 1979; in Cyrillic, Александра Балашова), also seen as Aleksandra Balashova or Alexandra Balachova, was a Russian ballet dancer, and later a dance teacher and choreographer. Alexandra Mikhailovna Balashova was born in Moscow. She was educated at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School. Balashova was a principal dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre starting in 1905. She often danced with Mikhail Mordkin, and was known for such roles as Aurora in ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and Odette/Odille in ""Swan Lake"". She performed in London in 1911, replacing Yekaterina Geltzer; for publicity, London bootmakers were"
"Ivanov and does him great honor. Mr. Ivanov revealed a great deal of the finest, most elegant taste. To all the dances the Balletmaster imparted a noble stamp and consistent style."" The ballerina who danced Odette was the Italian virtuosa Pierina Legnani, considered by the critics, public, and her fellow dancers alike to be among the greatest, if not the greatest ballerina to ever grace the Imperial stage. She had made her début with the Imperial Ballet in ""Cinderella"" (choreographed by Petipa, Ivanov, and Enrico Cecchetti to the music of Baron Boris Fitinhof-Schell) in December 1893, and when she took"
"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"
"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"
"of a masterwork"". The ballet was originally intended as a vehicle for The Royal Ballet's then prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn and the title role of Ondine was choreographed specially for her and led one critic to describe the ballet as ""a concerto for Fonteyn"". From its première in 1958 until the work was removed from the repertoire in 1966, nearly every performance of ""Ondine"" saw Fonteyn cast in the lead role, with the only occasional exceptions seeing Nadia Nerina and Svetlana Beriosova dancing the role. Maria Almeida became the first ballerina to dance the role of Ondine in a revival,"
"include Clara in ""The Nutcracker"", Aurora in ""Sleeping Beauty"", the title role in ""Manon"", the title role in ""Cinderella"", Hermia in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", Gamzatti in ""La Bayadère"", Lise in ""La fille mal gardée"", and Swanhilde in ""Coppélia"". Nordquist's most famous role was Odette/Odile in the Royal Ballet's 2001 production of ""Swan Lake"", with choreography by Sir Peter Wright. A live performance was recorded on DVD (in collaboration with the BBC), and sold worldwide. The newspaper ""Svenska Dagbladet"" wrote of her performance: ""She embodies the romantic ideal woman, vulnerable and with melancholic pleading arms... That she masters an entirely"
"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"
"Ondine (ballet) Ondine is a ballet in three acts created by the choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton and composer Hans Werner Henze. Ashton originally produced ""Ondine"" for the Royal Ballet in 1958, with Henze commissioned to produce the original score, published as ""Undine"", which has since been restaged by other choreographers. The ballet was adapted from a novella titled ""Undine"" by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and it tells the tale of a water nymph who is the object of desire of a young prince named Palemon. The première of the ballet took place at the Royal Opera House, London, on"
"at the senior forms she participated in school recitals with variations from Raymonda, Le Corsaire, La Bayadere, Pas de deux from Giselle and Le Corsaire, and miniatures by Roland Petit and Jacobson. From 2004 to 2006 she was a member of the Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre. Olga Moiseeva was her teacher at the theatre. In 2006 she joined as a principal dancer of the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper, and in 2010 she was appointed as the first solo dancer of the Vienna State Ballet. Among her most important roles at the Mariinsky Theatre included Odette/Odile"
"Gaîté Parisienne Gaîté Parisienne (literally, ""Parisian Gaiety"") is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Jacques Offenbach orchestrated by Manuel Rosenthal in collaboration with Jacques Brindejonc-Offenbach, the composer's nephew. With a libretto and décor by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and costumes executed by Barbara Karinska, it was first presented by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 5 April 1938. Performed in one act, the ballet does not have a conventional narrative. Instead, it depicts the amorous flirtations, convivial dancing, and high spirits of a diverse group of people who patronize a"
"Othello (ballet) Othello is a ballet in three acts based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. Choreography by Lar Lubovitch is set to an orchestral score composed by Elliot Goldenthal and released commercially on the Varèse Sarabande label. Originally produced in 1997, the ballet was commissioned by the American Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet. The score is generally less atonal than many of Goldenthal's film scores but vastly more complex as he is required to provide not only the music but also all of the complex ambience and to set the pace and rhythm"
"reviewer spoke of her ""regal amplitude and attack"" in the ""Serenade"" by George Balanchine at the London Coliseum in 2015. Of her performance at Sadler's Wells as Odette, the lead rôle in Tchaikovsky's ""Swan Lake"", in 2015, ""The Times"" wrote that her dancing was ""frail and beautiful and ... completely alluring"", while her technique was ""a fabulous combination of control and flamboyance""; the ""Daily Telegraph"" called it ""a lovely legato performance"". Céline Gittens Céline Gittens is a Trinidadian ballerina. She is a principal dancer at the Birmingham Royal Ballet, in Birmingham, England. Gittens was born in Trinidad, where her mother"
"Odette Valery Odette Valery (spelled Valéry in French publications), née Helene Vasilardi, (1883–?) was an Italian dancer of Greek parentage. She made her début at La Scala in 1898 at the age of fifteen. She moved to Paris where she danced with the Ballet Excelsior at the Folies Bergère. She came to regard dancing ""en pointe"" as ""old-fashioned"" and made her name doing reconstructions of ancient Greek dances in bare feet. Later she portrayed Cleopatra and did an Egyptian dance with a live asp. She was well-educated and spoke French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian as well as some English"
"He and his daughter Odille then plot to get Odette to forget Siegfried by getting him to fall in love with someone else—Odille. Odille, transformed in the guise of Odette, goes to the ball and wows Siegfried with her dancing. Siegfried does feel that there's something wrong but can't quite put his finger on what it is. Meanwhile, Odette manages to escape from Rothbart's castle with the help of Hans and Margarita, the squirrels, and runs to Siegfried's castle. But just as Odette is about to storm into the ballroom, Rothbart (who was there originally to watch Odille, transformed in"
"sorcerer, Von Rothbart, transforming them into swans by day. By night, they regain their human forms and can only be rescued if a young man swears eternal love and faithfulness to the Princess. When Prince Siegfried swears his love for Odette, the spell can be broken, but Siegfried is tricked into declaring his love for Von Rothbart's daughter, Odile, disguised by magic as Odette, and all seems lost. But the spell is finally broken when Siegfried and Odette drown themselves in a lake of tears, uniting them in death for all eternity. While the ballet's revival of 1895 depicted the"
"2015 Kapitonova danced the lead in ""Giselle"" for the first time with international guest stars Roberto Bolle and Friedemann Vogel from which she received positive feedback from the audience and the critics. Kapitonova opened the Mini-Giselle Festival performances at Staatsballett Berlin on 3 March 2016 which included Polina Semionova, Maria Eichwald and Iana Salenko On 6 February 2016, Kapitonova danced Odile Odette at the world premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's reconstruction of Petipa/Ivanov's original Swan Lake choreography following Stepanov notations stored at Harvard University. Receiving critical acclaim for her performances. Kapitonova won the 'Balllet Friends of Zürich Prize' for best ballerina"
"Akane Takada Akane Takada is a Japanese ballerina and a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London. Takada’s repertory with the Company includes Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Giselle, Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Olga (Onegin), Titania (The Dream), Young Girl (The Two Pigeons), Mary Vetsera (Mayerling), Mathilde Kschessinska (Anastasia), Raven (Raven Girl), Perdita and Young Shepherdess (The Winter’s Tale) and roles in The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Jewels, The Human Seasons, Voices of Spring, DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, The Four Temperaments, Ballo della regina, Within the Golden Hour, Multiverse and Carbon Life. Akane Takada"
"for the dancers on the stage. Othello (ballet) Othello is a ballet in three acts based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. Choreography by Lar Lubovitch is set to an orchestral score composed by Elliot Goldenthal and released commercially on the Varèse Sarabande label. Originally produced in 1997, the ballet was commissioned by the American Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet. The score is generally less atonal than many of Goldenthal's film scores but vastly more complex as he is required to provide not only the music but also all of the complex ambience and"
"of Odette/Odile. Brooklyn Mack Brooklyn Mack is an American professional ballet dancer who performs with The Washington Ballet. He previously danced with the Orlando Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and ABT. Raised in Elgin, South Carolina, Mack began ballet training to improve his football playing when he was 12 years old. He started his studies at the Pavlovich Dance School. Two years later, at the age of 15, began training in Washington, D.C. on a full scholarship with the Kirov Academy of Ballet. He graduated from Kirov after three years, then joined the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago as an apprentice in 2004."
"Gulda in Joseph Conrad's ""Cyganie"" (""The Gypsies""). She also appeared in contemporary French dramas, playing, among others, Joanna de Simerose in ""L'ami des Femmes"" and Severine in ""Princess George"" by Alexander Dumas, Princess Falconieri in Octave Feuillet's ""Dalila"" and the title role in Victorien Sardou's ""Odette"". Antonina Hoffmann Antonina Hoffmann (16 June 1842–16 June 1897) was a Polish theatre actress and leading representative of the so-called 'Kraków School' of acting introduced by Stanisław Egbert Koźmian. Her acting career spanned five decades during the Victorian era. Born in Trzebinia in Poland, the daughter of Jan Hoffmann and Emilia (née Thiel), an"
"of Sibley's performance Vaughan commented, ""no-one has managed to emulate Sibley's swiftness and her impersonation of a half-wild creature, nor the silken fluidity of Dowell's phrasing."" Sibley was renowned during her time at the Royal Ballet for her performances in MacMillan's ""Romeo and Juliet"". She also danced the major roles of ""Odette"" and ""Odile"" in ""Swan Lake"", the title role in ""Giselle"" and ""Aurora"" in ""The Sleeping Beauty"". Further roles were in Ashton's ballets, ""Symphonic Variations"" and ""Daphnis and Chloe"", Jerome Robbins's ""Dances at a Gathering"" and ""Afternoon of a Faun"". Sibley also was the ballerina MacMillan used to create"
"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"
"at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. The role of Armida was danced by Vera Karalli, the Vicomte de Beaugency by Mikhail Mordkin, and the Slave by Nijinsky. As the first ballet presented in Paris by Diaghilev, its success was due in part to its French theme. The 1909 season also included works based on Russian folklore which also met with public approval. Le Pavillon d'Armide Le Pavillon d'Armide is a ballet in one act and three scenes choreographed by Michel Fokine with music by Nikolai Tcherepnin to a libretto by Alexandre Benois. It was inspired by the novella ""Omphale"" by"
"Polish National Opera. At the Teatr Wielki, she appeared as Odette-Odile in Irek Mukhamedov's version of ""Swan Lake"". She also worked with Natalia Makarova in her production of ""La Bayadère"" and Mats Ek in his ""Carmen"" and ""A sort of..."". Nabokina frequently merges classical dancing techniques with dynamics of contemporary dance. Anastasia is married to a Polish photographer Tomasz Jaworski. They have a son called Jeremi. Anastasia Nabokina Anastasia Nabokina () is a Russian ballerina born on 14 February 1971 in Moscow, Russia. In 1981 she entered the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. At the age of 17, she made"
"deux"" to this music for the Violette Verdy, and the Conrad Ludlow performed on the City Center of Music and Drama in New York City under the title ""Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux"", as it is still known and performed today. Julius Reisinger's successor as balletmaster was Joseph Peter Hansen. Hansen made considerable efforts to salvage ""Swan Lake"" and on 13 January 1880 he presented a new production of the ballet for his own benefit performance. The part of Odette/Odile was danced by Evdokia Kalmykova, a student of the Moscow Imperial Ballet School, with Alfred Bekefi as Prince Siegfried. This production"
"1971, Toth partnered with New York City Ballet's Edward Villella as she danced the role of Odette, and he as Siegfried, for a Boston Ballet performance. As a Boston Ballet principal dancer, Toth also performed in other companies' productions. In 1971, she danced the role of Juliet for Nicolas Petrov and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's first production of Romeo and Juliet. And, in 1973, Toth danced in the S. Hurok Presents production of Apollo and Les Sylphides where she performed pas de deux with Rudolph Nureyev. After she left Boston Ballet, Toth danced with the Boston Repertory Ballet founded by"
"Edra Toth Edra Toth (born September 18, 1952) is a Hungarian-American ballet dancer who studied under E. Virginia Williams with the Boston Ballet. Edra Toth came to the United States in 1956 as a Hungarian refugee and grew up in Boston, MA. At sixteen years old, Toth danced as a prima ballerina with Ivan Nagy for the 1969 Boston Ballet production of Giselle at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Throughout Toth's career with the Boston Ballet, she danced in multiple principal roles such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, and Odette in Swan Lake. In"