Famous ballets, Russian ballet, ballet schools,companies, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky
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Kirov-Marinsky Ballet
The Marinsky Ballet is a classical ballet company based at the Marinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in the 18th century, the Marinsky Ballet is one of the world’s leading ballet companies. The Marinsky Ballet is most commonly known by its former Soviet name the Kirov Ballet.
London Dance
Events, ‘what’s on,’ reviews, news, features, directory.
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The Moscow Ballet of Classical Choreography
“La Classique” was founded in 1990 by its current director Elik Melikov, utilising ballet dancers from the leading theatres of the CIS Countries and the Bolshoi, Kirov and Ballet Theatres of Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi, Perm and etc.
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The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
Performances, reviews, buzz.
The Nutcracker
Moscow Ballet
The Nutcracker
Wikipedia entry.
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Photography
Ballet photography by Andrea Paolini Merlo.
Prokofiev
The Sergei Prokofiev Foundation
BBC, Radio 3. Discovering Music
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Cinderella – Nureyev’s choreography. Rudolf Nureyev Foundation
Cinderella (Prokofiev) Wikipedia
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Royal New Zealand Ballet Company
Russian ballet
Ballets Russes
Wikipedia entry.
Ballets Russes Project, Australia
The Ballets Russes Project celebrated the vision and legacy of three legendary ballet companies that toured to Australia between 1936 and 1940. These companies traced their lineage back to Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe.
RussianBroadway
All Russian ballet tickets in one place. RussianBroadway.com is really useful website for all Ballet aficionados, who are planning their trip to Russia and would like to see The Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle and other masterpieces of Russian ballet in Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) Theatre, Mikhailovsky (ex-Mussorgsky) Theatre, Aleksandrinsky Theatre and others by their own eyes. You can book ticket for famous Russian ballet shows in couple of minutes and receive it online or have it delivered to your hotel, cruise-ship or theatre itself right before the show.
Diaghilev, Serge. Serge Diaghilev
Wikipedia entry.
Nijinsky, Vaslav. Vaslav Nijinsky
Wikipedia entry.
Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre
Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
Vaslav Nijinsky:
Creating A New Artistic Era
Russian ballet.
History and legends.
The Mariinsky Theatre/Marinsky/Kirov Ballet
St Petersburg
Art of Dance. Stars of the ballet of St.Petersburg. Mariinskiy Theatre, Mussorgsky (Maliy) Opera and Ballet Theatre. Photos, press, performances.
Schools
Akademie des Tanzes, Mannheim, Germany
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Danse de Marseille
English National Ballet School
John Cranko-Schule, Stuttgart, Germany
National Academy of Dance, Budapest, Hungary
School of American Ballet, New York
Vaganova Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty (the story),
Wikipedia entry.
Sleeping Beauty, the ballet.
Wikipedia entry.
Spanish ballet
Spanish ballet companies, ballet dancers.
Spanish Flamenco dancing, a history.
Stravinsky
Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich. Igor Stravinksy
Classical Net Music Archive
The Firebird
Wikipedia entry.
Swan Lake
Swan Lake, Wikipedia entry. A history of the ballet.
Rudolf Nureyev’s choreography of Swan Lake.
The Sleeping Beauty – The Story. The Australian Ballet
Swan Lake
A history of the ballet, from The Ballet Bag.
Swan Lake performances on video, from YouTube.
Swedish Ballet. Royal Swedish Ballet
Switzerland. Pix de Lausanne Contemporary Dance Prize
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Tchaikovsky, Piotr
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Wikipedia entry.
The Sleeping Beauty. Tchaikovsky Research
The Sleeping Beauty. Bolshoi Ballet
History of The Nutcracker. Moscow Ballet
History of Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
Techniques
Techniques. Ballet techniques.
Wikipedia entries.
Terms
Glossary of ballet terms. Wikipedia
Tokyo Ballet
The Japan Performing Arts Foundation was founded in 1981 to develop and promote cultural life in Japan by advancing and popularizing the performing arts, particularly music and dance, and by promoting international exchange in the performing arts.