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A Month in the Country. (ballet) A Month in the Country is a narrative ballet created in 1976 with choreography by Frederick Ashton, to the music of Frédéric Chopin (three works for piano and orchestra) arranged by John Lanchbery. It is based on the play by Ivan Turgenev of the same name, and lasts for about 40 minutes.
The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in 1931 by Dame Ninette de Valois. [ 1] It became the resident ballet company of the Royal Opera House in ...
The Diva. Fonteyn appeared in the Royal Opera House debut of the ballet on 15 February 1972 and repeated the performance on 18 February, 21 February, 24 February, 8 April, and 17 April 1972. [ 96] 1972 [ 23] The Sleeping Beauty. choreography revised by Frederick Ashton, music by Tchaikovsky. Aurora.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was co-founded by Peter Anastos, Natch Taylor, and Anthony Bassae, all of the Trockadero Gloxinia Ballet Company, in 1974. They initially produced small, late-night shows in off-off-Broadway spaces. The troupe's first show was on September 9, 1974 in a second-story loft on 14th Street in the Meatpacking ...
Miyako Yoshida and Steven McRae as the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier in a production of The Nutcracker by Peter Wright for The Royal Ballet (2009). Although the original 1892 Marius Petipa production was not a success, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker began to slowly enjoy worldwide popularity after Balanchine first staged his production of it in 1954. [1]
The expanded version, Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan, premiered on 15 June 1976, at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, during Ballet Rambert's 50th anniversary gala. [4] It has since been revived by Rambert Dance Company, the Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet and National Ballet of ...
Alexander Grant (dancer) Alexander Marshall Grant CBE (22 February 1925 – 30 September 2011) was a New Zealand ballet dancer, teacher, and company director. [1] After moving to London as a young man, he became known as "the Royal Ballet 's most remarkable actor-dancer in its golden period from the 1940s to the 1960s." [2]
Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE ( née Hookham; 18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet (formerly the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company), eventually being appointed prima ballerina assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth II.