• Double Feature (A Ballet in Two Acts) was choreographed by Susan Stroman for the New York City Ballet to music by Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson....
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    Tchaikovsky to compose a double-bill program featuring both an opera and a ballet. The opera would be Iolanta. For the ballet, Tchaikovsky would again...
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    Spandau Ballet (/ˈspændaʊ ˈbæleɪ/ SPAN-dow BAL-ay) were an English new wave band formed in Islington, London, in 1979. Inspired by the capital's post-punk...
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    2011, the Bolshoi Theatre re-opened with a concert featuring international artists and the ballet and opera companies. The first staged opera, Ruslan...
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    Benjamin Millepied (category French ballet choreographers)
    the Mariinsky and American Ballet Theatre. Reset, a ballet documentary by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai, featured Millepied as he mounted his...
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  • Black Swan (film) (category Films about ballet)
    "lazy ... featuring every ballet cliche going." Watson felt that the film "makes [ballet] look so naff and laughable. It doesn't show why ballet is so important...
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  • One of the typical exercises of a traditional ballet class, done both at barre and in center, featuring slow, controlled movements. The section of a grand...
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  • in the film was being given to her and how much to her "dance double", American Ballet Theatre soloist Sarah Lane. In a March 3, 2011 blog post (written...
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    Coppélia (redirect from Spinner (ballet))
    subtitled: La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes)) is a comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of...
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  • Megan Fairchild (category New York City Ballet principal dancers)
    Blue Necklace" from Double Feature (Florence) Christopher Wheeldon: Shambards In 2011, Fairchild married fellow New York City Ballet principal Andrew Veyette...
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  • a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, which premiered in 1942. Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch", the ballet consists...
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    The following is a list of ballets with entries in English Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by ballet title, with the name of the composer...
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    and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Petipa is one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history. Marius...
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    a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. It is the second of his three ballets and...
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  • in the film was being given to her and how much to her "dance double", American Ballet Theatre soloist Sarah Lane. Prior to Black Swan, there had also...
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    Marius Petipa production was not a success, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker began to slowly enjoy worldwide popularity after Balanchine...
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    Sarah Lane (category 21st-century American ballet dancers)
    1984) is an American ballet dancer who was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT). She served as a "dance double" for Natalie Portman in...
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    The Ballets Russes (French: [balɛ ʁys]) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours...
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    Appalachian Spring is an American ballet created by the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Aaron Copland, later arranged as an orchestral work...
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    Gayne, the e is pronounced; Armenian: Գայանե; Russian: Гаянэ) is a four-act ballet with music by Aram Khachaturian. Originally composed in or before 1939,...
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    a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes...
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    changes, particularly with respect to double-dotting many of the dotted-rhythm passages in Baroque style. The first ballet version of Stravinsky's Apollon musagète...
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  • Adam Cooper (dancer) (category 20th-century British ballet dancers)
    Matthew Bourne's contemporary dance production of the ballet Swan Lake, a role that was briefly featured in the 2000 film Billy Elliot, in which Cooper played...
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  • The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The...
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    Ashley Bouder (category New York City Ballet principal dancers)
    born December 10, 1983) is an American ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet. She also founded and currently runs...
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    Romance Cocktail Mix (1987), Ubiquitous, DayGlo5 (Ballet Bag + Ballet Dance) The Ballet's Birthday Box (double LP) (1988), Ubiquitous, DayGlo6 - (two lps with...
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    Boléro (redirect from Boléro Ballet)
    Straram. Originally, Ernest Ansermet had been engaged to conduct the entire ballet season, but the musicians refused to play under him. A scenario by Rubinstein...
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    Sergei Polunin (category Principal dancers of The Royal Ballet)
    when he danced as the Knave, who doubled as Alice's romantic interest. After two successful years with the Royal Ballet, on 24 January 2012, Polunin announced...
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  • cellos and double basses. Oxford Characters: Alice: the original protagonist in Lewis Carroll's novel, in which she is a child; in the ballet she is a teenager...
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    Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre...
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