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Keeping in step
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A lesson in history: The Kirov Ballet keeps alive its tradition
of staging `Don Quixote' Photo: Baranovsky
By opening their London season tonight with Don Quixote, the
Kirov Ballet will be showing both a complete novelty and a slice of
history. On one hand, this is the earliest surviving creation by
their great founding father Marius Petipa, first given in 1869,
just when he was made principal choreographer of the Russian
Imperial Ballet. Yet although in Russia this work comes close t...
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Arts: The Main Event: Russia's Spanish steps DON QUIXOTE: ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON
The Independent - London
; THE KIROV Ballet have said goodbye to London with Petipa's oldest surviving ballet, Don Quixote, created in Moscow in 1862. Their present version derives from a 1902 St Petersburg staging by Alexander Gorsky, a choreographer as ambitious as Petipa, but nowhere as talented. He made "improvements",
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New beauties for old
The Spectator
; Giannandrea Poesio searches for `Petipa style' in two productions of Sleeping Beauty According to the late Sir Frederick Ashton, Marius Petipa's 1890 ballet The Sleeping Beauty was a `lesson in style'. Similarly, George Balanchine, the father of American ballet, regarded that work as a `pure
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THE ARTS: Postcard from Moscow - A pharaoh's daughter reborn A weekly look at the arts from around the globe
The Independent - London
; THE MOST remarkable sight at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre last week was in the audience. Moments before the performance, bells started clanging for the arrival of the Grand Patriarch of Russia, flanked by Vladimir Vassiliev, the theatre's director. In his robes, headdress and important beard, the Holy
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PNB PROGRAM REFLECTS ONE MASTER'S INFLUENCE ON ANOTHER.(What's Happening)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Byline: R.M. CAMPBELL P-I dance critic This season Pacific Northwest Ballet has devised a number of mixed bills with considerable interest, but none more so than the program pairing works of George Balanchine and Marius Petipa. It opens Thursday night at Mercer Arts Arena. This is a case of one
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BOSTON BALLET HOPES IT'S MADE IN THE 'SHADES'
The Boston Globe
; It's one of the most riveting, risky, and revolutionary passages in 19th-century ballet. Thirty-two women in white descend a ramp one by one and zigzag their way downstage, performing precisely the same phrase - deep arabesque, then an arch of the back with arms overhead en couronne - over and over
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Cesare Pugni, Marius Petipa and 19th-century ballet music
Musical Times
; THE MANY PETITS MATRES who furnished 19th-century ballet masters with scores to order, or cobbled up gallimaufries from whatever melodic shreds and patches came to hand, represent a demi-monde from which many lovers of serious music recoil with boredom or distaste. Three figures stand out in this
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Bolshoi's Petipa Is Must-See Dance, THE MOSCOW TIMES
The Moscow Times (Russia)
; Raymond Stults The Moscow Times (Russia) 05-23-2003 First lead principals Mark Peretokin and Nadezhda Grachyova dancing Abderakhman and Raymonda last week. 'Raymonda," with music by Alexander Glazunov, is a quintessentially Russian ballet, much beloved at home, but little known or performed abroad.
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Marius Petipa
Dance Teacher
; The bard of classical ballet Marius Petipa (1818-1910) is one of the most significant figures in ballet history. This prolific French choreographer created more than 50 ballets, many of which are audience favorites today. In helping to solidify Russia's classical style, he also revolutionized corps
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BOLSHOI BALLET
The Village Voice
; BOLSHOI BALLET Metropolitan Opera House July 18 through 30 Choreographers awaken sleeping ballets, one by adjusting history, one by starting over OPENING THE TOMB When the dramatic Italian ballerina Virginia Zucchi played the heroine in Marius Petipa's The Pharaoh's Daughter, 23 years after the
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The Main Event: All things bright and beautiful; The Main Event THE SLEEPING BEAUTY ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON
The Independent - London
; AT LAST. After all the misguided and often disastrous attempts by one company after another to improve on The Sleeping Beauty, the Kirov Ballet has taken the inspired, if revolutionary, course of going back to the work's origins. Opening its London season last night, it proved a revelation: the
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