Word: petipa
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...aided by a $100,000 grant from The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, which is dedicated to maintaining public awareness of Nureyev's artistic legacy. The tale of Le Corsaire is based on an 1814 Byron poem and was revived in 1868 by the great ballet choreographer and master Marius Petipa. The current Boston Ballet production is based on choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev and was staged by Anna-Marie Holmes (the soon-to-be Artistic Director of Boston Ballet) and Natalia Dudinskaya and Vadim Desnitsky of the Kirov Ballet. The 85-year-old Dudinskaya, a former Kirov ballerina, has become a familiar...
...corps de ballet. This scene was one of the prettiest in the ballet, with the coloring of the costumes representing pink, peach, and yellow flower petals swirling across the stage. The girls carried garlands over their heads (a scene strikingly similar to one in Sleeping Beauty, a ballet Marius Petipa created 22 years after Le Corsaire...
...Nutcracker and Mouse King)--the tale of an eccentric, somewhat grotesque, journey into the blurred area between reality and fantasy. In 1844, a French writer, Alexandre Dumas pere softened and sweetened Hoffman's tale into the story of a young girl's Christmas fantasy that would inspire Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to stage it for the Maryinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892. Act One opens in the Silberhaus home where the family eagerly awaits party guests, and Clara and Fritz eagerly await the accompanying presents. Their mysterious and magical godfather, Dr. Drosselmeyer (Laszlo Berdo) enters once...
...Sleeping Beauty tells the story of Princess Aurora, cursed by the evil Carabosse to sleep one hundred years until kissed by a handsome prince. The strength of the ballet lies in the noble and soaring melodies of the music, composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. With choreography by Marius Petipa, The Sleeping Beauty received its first performance at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in January of 1890, attaining instant success. Staged by Anna-Marie Holmes, the Boston Ballet's choreography tries to maintain the flavor and quality of Petipa's original movement by staying as close as possible...
Perhaps earlier versions of this ballet did a better job. Holmes' current interpretation made its debut at Boston Ballet in 1989, and is based on the 19th century choreography of Russians Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky. Although Boston Ballet no longer performs the 1982 version staged for them by Rudolph Nureyev, they dedicate their performance to this late ballet virtuoso...