Ballet Manila presents a work on the life of Gabriela Silang, and other Philippine ballets.
What these ballets demand from the dancers is control, depth of feeling and precision.
He became principal dancer with the Ballet Russe and created many ballets for Diaghilev.
He wrote 15 symphonies as well as operas, ballets and film and theatre scores.
But both these ballets kept most of the focus on posture, often shaped by extravagant partnering.
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Son premier travail le met pourtant en contact avec des musiciens des Ballets Diaboula.
When I began to make ballets, I was looking for music, for scores, for subjects.
The next two weeks will disprove the notion that ballets only depict the lives of fairies and princesses.
With the Shostakovich trilogy, I will try to make a portrait of the company in three different ballets.
Hers is hardly a name associated with ballets made with children in mind.
It is through a thousand such moments that the ballets return to life.
Lully's enormously successful operas and ballets set the stage for the operas that followed, some four decades later, by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
George Balanchine, for example, is best remembered for the many "plotless" ballets that he made to the music of Igor Stravinsky.
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By accident or design, her swan song is Sir Kenneth's Song of the Earth, one of his earliest and most demanding ballets.
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The difference between this and other narrative ballets is that there are few moments of extraneous dance for the sake of pure movement.
New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that strip clubs aren't entitled to sales-tax exemptions granted to higher-brow entertainment such as ballets and operas.
With its current winter season, New York City Ballet continues to create thematic programs out of its extensive repertory of mostly one-act ballets.
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The Bolshoi Theater is one of Russia's premier cultural institutions, best known for "Swan Lake" and the other grand classical ballets that grace its stage.
"What rumours are saying is that this girl, Angela Vorontsova, came to see Sergei asking for the big parts in the big ballets, " she says.
McKenzie said the amazingly energetic native of Liverpool, England, remembered the greatest 20th century dance moves, starting with Serge Diaghilev and the Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo.
He is now working on four new ballets, one of which - The Circus Is In Town - he plans to complete in time for his son's second birthday.
He makes clear that his ballets provide an opening for contemporary Russian composers - Korchagin, Besedina, Zdanevich - whether they are rescoring existing music or producing wholly original work.
The work was commissioned from Nijinsky and Claude Debussy, a French composer, by Serge Diaghilev, a Russian impresario whose Ballets Russes seasons caused a furore in Paris and in London.
The process of recreating these ballets involves not only studying the original materials left by the choreographers and designers, but a wealth of detail in contemporary newspapers, drawings, diaries, letters and personal recollections.
Drenched in red velvet with golden-hued frescoes on the ceiling, the sumptuous interior is a beautiful place to take in one of the ballets, operas and symphonies that grace the stage throughout the year.
The venue, which was opened by the Queen in November 2004, is the home of Welsh National Opera, and hosts regular musicals, ballets and music and comedy events, while there is also a studio theatre.
Those stories were about '20s Chanel dresses, costumes from the Ballets Russes and an entire wardrobe created in the 1870s for a Roman princess by Charles Frederick Worth (the world's very first haute couture designer), bought for her by Lagerfeld.
According to Ellen Sorrin, the director of the Balanchine Trust, requests have come in for his help with ballets with which he is associated, such as "Rubies" (from "Jewels"), in which he starred in the original 1967 City Ballet production.
Also planned are the redesign and creation of many public spaces as well as a number of buildings currently in development, like the Maison des Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, and the concert hall for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, scheduled to open in September.
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