Marius Petipa

Hanlin Chen DNC100 Spring 2018 Report On The Sleeping Beauty Choreography refers to the art of designing dance moves to fit a given musical best. Mainly, it involves ordering sequences of body movements lain over the period of a song, often for ballet or staged dances (Sita 6). There are numerous choreographies created over the years, and the courses therein vary, depending on the tempo and mood of the songs, which in turn are informed by the genre of music in the play. In this regard, the essay

7 Things to Know about San Francisco Ballet At the point when San Francisco ballet performers are taking care of their business, their audience likely does not think about how they got their bodies into those positions. The viewers do not consider how troublesome it must be to stay on one's toes for so long. They become involved with the magic as the artists appear to resist gravity and the restrictions of human anatomy, just for their craft. The artful dance - the theater, the story, the energy

Sleeping Beauty was a Russian ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographed by Marius Petipa. I first premiered in 1890 and was choreographed in traditional ballet style. Appalachian Spring was an American ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Martha Graham, who also danced the lead female’s role. The ballet premiered in October of 1944, and was more modern that Sleeping Beauty, but still had classical elements to it. Although both very beautiful compositions, the

Do you have something to make you feel invincible? Ya I thought so. My favorite is the Nutcracker, let's talk about it. You might be wondering who wrote the nutcracker and who choreographed it that was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote it and Marius Petipa who choreographed the nutcracker. Tchaikovsky wrote many different ballet performances like Symphony No. 6 what is called the Pathétique. When Tchaikovsky was on a trip home from russia in 1891 he wrote the nutcracker. Having the nutcracker gave

The Classical period brought about even more artistry and the rise of Marius Petipa who is thought to be the “father of classical ballet” (Homans, p.264). While some of Petipa’s predecessors (and almost all of his successors) put a lot of personal touches in their choreography and teaching styles, Petipa stayed very academic. His legacy lives on with three of his most revolutionary and unique ballets; Daughter of the Pharaoh , La Bayadère

Don Quixote The Ballet performance Don Quixote is based on the worldwide known novel ‘Don Quixote de la Mancha’ by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally performed by the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow and choreographed by Marius Petipa in the year of 1869 with the music of Ludwig Minkus. Now days there are numerous Ballets performing it all over the world. The Miami City Ballet has adopted this performance as part of their season content, giving the Spanish play a hint of Latin American taste with several

ballet that is centered around the Stahlbaum family’s Christmas Eve celebration. The plot of this ballet was an adaption by Alexandre Père of a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann with the musical score composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa. Act I began with Christmas Eve festivities at the Stahlbaum home with dancing and joyous celebration with family and friends. Herr Drosselmeyer, a family friend, and his apprentice, Hans, arrived at the party, bringing gifts for everyone, including

than in Western Europe where opera was preferred. It was under this climate that Russian ballet led the way in classical dance with such famous stars as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Foskine and the legendary Nijinsky, who all trained with the Frenchman Marius Petipa at the St Petersburg Imperial Ballet.

Sleeping Beauty is a classic movie that was transformed into a ballet play. Where a new princess is born to King Florestan XIV and his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Carabosse shows up, and curse on the princess - that she will die before sunset on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle. Only her true love can save her. This play took place in Detroit Opera House

For my final exam essay, I have selected to write about Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is an extremely popular piece of music that I feel most people have heard before. This piece is especially popular for Television commercials right now because of Christmas coming up, which is when The Nutcracker is usually performed. The original composer was P.I. Tchaikovsky, a Russian composer during the Romantic period. Tchaikovsky composed eleven operas, three ballets