Marius Petipa

“The body says what words cannot” (Martha Graham). This quote helps explain how the body can move in ways to help explain cultures and events that have happened. The body can move in ways to show emotion that people are sometimes unable to explain with words. Different styles of dance have evolved dramatically over the years and can even be used in the modern world as a profession. Dance has been affected by many events including religious rituals that helped form the art of dance, the Italian Renaissance

SWAN LAKE ‘Swan Lake' was re-choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in1895, after initially being choreographed by Julius Reisinger in 1877. The musical score was composed by Pytor Tchaikovsky. ‘Swan Lake' was created towards the end of the romantic period, so the culture and style of romanticism was prominent, with glimpses of the beginning of the classical era. Because of this, it contains elements of both eras. Some of the romantic characteristics include the pursuit of the unattainable

other famous ballets, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty, had been produced by the renowned Marius Petipa, the French ballet teacher and choreographer of St. Petersburg Imperial Theater, in the years before. At a memorial service for Tchaikovsky in 1894, Lev Ivanov, Petipa’s assistant, presented his choreography for the second act of Swan Lake. In 1895, Petipa worked on restaging the entire work. Petipa choreographed acts I and III, while Ivanov was responsible for acts II and IV. In addition to

Introduction by Martha Graham. Perf. Martha Graham. YouTube. YouTube, 24 June 2011. Web. 17 Nov. 2012. . Martha Graham- Finding the Meaning through Dancing. Perf. Martha Graham. YouTube. YouTube, 14 Aug. 2009. Web. 17 Nov. 2012. . Michelman, Fran. "Marius Petipa - A

Christmas Eve and battles against the evil Mouse King (Schwarm). In 1892, the director of the Russian Imperial Theatre, following the success of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, devised the ballet, setting ito Tchaikovsky’s music with choreography by Marius Petipa, and premiering it a week before Christmas (Burton-Hill). Tchaikovsky first accepted the task to write the music from the director of Moscow’s Imperial Theatres, Ivan Vsevolozhsky (History of The Nutcracker). He began to work while on an American

Beauty, ballet was first performed in 1890. The music was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the choreographer of the original production was Marius Petipa. Having given bold contemporized dance-theatre makeovers to both The Nutcracker and Swan Lake, Matthew Bourne started turning his attention, in 2011, to that other great 1890s Tchaikovsky/Petipa ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. The result detailed sets and costumes, evocative lighting and a story line that transports the audience in time from

The Nutcracker Ballet is based on the story of the original story which was written by E.T.A. Hoffman in 1816. Although Hoffman’s story was a fairy tale, it was not meant for children. Then in 1892, a choreographer named Marius Petipa sought Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky to write music which would become one of the most popular ballets of the world. It was Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum house and it was attended by all the townspeople. Soon the party grew as the guest began to arrive. Then, godfather

A staple in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s repertoire, Kent Stowell’s Swan Lake dazzles audiences every time it revisits. The classic tale continues to draw crowds one-hundred and twenty-three years after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s original. On Thursday night of last week, McCaw Hall’s dazzling red curtain rose to give a sneak-peak of the dress rehearsal process. Act I was a yawn. Compared to the other three acts in the ballet, this act is by far the least interesting. The dancing was nice, with

Leah Grace Hamilton The ballet that I watched online was The Australian Ballet Company’s Sleeping Beauty, performed to music from The Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra. Sleeping Beauty was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa at the Imperial Ballet in Russia in 1889. In 1890, it was first performed in St. Petersburg. All of the ballet’s music was composed by Tchaikovsky. There is a prologue and three acts in this ballet. It starts with Aurora as a baby. In this scene, everyone is at the palace

inventive edge and the ties to "degenerate" behavior from the female specialists. The end of the Romantic period was the new beginning for what we now know today as Classical expressive move. In 1847 the Russian Ballet enrolled French national Marius Petipa to be their choreographer in Saint