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Swan Lake (Balanchine) Swan Lake. (Balanchine) Swan Lake is a one-act ballet made by New York City Ballet 's co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky 's eponymous music (1875–56). The premiere took place Thursday, 20 November 1951 at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York.
This is a list of notable major productions of the ballet Swan Lake.Throughout the long and complex performance history of Swan Lake, the 1895 edition of Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, and Riccardo Drigo has served as the definitive version on which nearly every staging has been based, having been mounted by many noted ballet masters and choreographers from the late 19th century until the present day.
The 1895 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 ...
A luminous technique defines the documentary “Swan Song” as it unfurls its saga of famed ballerina Karen Kain’s final act as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada: the helming ...
Barbie of Swan Lake (2003) is a direct-to-video children's movie featuring Tchaikovsky's music and motion capture from the New York City Ballet and based on the Swan Lake story. In this version, Odette is not a princess by birth, but a baker's daughter; instead of being kidnapped by Rothbart and taken to the lake against her will, she discovers ...
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux[ a] is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky originally intended for act 3 of Swan Lake (Op. 20, 1875–76). [ 2] With costumes by Barbara Karinska and lighting by Jack Owen Brown, it was first presented by New York City Ballet at the City Center of Music and Drama, New ...
Alex Portée. April 27, 2023 at 3:06 PM. At a ballet barre in Oklahoma City, senior women stand a little taller. They're not just ballerinas — they're Golden Swans. The Oklahoma City Ballet ...
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a contemporary ballet based on the Russian romantic work Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchaikovsky and the broad outline of the plot. Bourne 's rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men. It was the longest-running ballet in London's West End and on ...