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    Petrushka (French: Pétrouchka; Russian: Петрушка) is a ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1911 Paris season of Sergei...
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  • Petrushka (Russian: Петру́шка, IPA: [pʲɪtˈruʂkə] ) is a stock character of Russian folk puppetry. It was first introduced by traveling Italian performers...
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  • The Petrushka chord is a recurring polytonal device used in Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and in later music. These two major triads, C major and...
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  • Petrushka is a Russian puppet. Petrushka may also refer to: Petrushka (ballet), a ballet by Igor Stravinsky Petrushka (horse), a racehorse "Petrouchka"...
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    the Imperial Russian Ballet), Les Sylphides (a reworking of his earlier Chopiniana), The Firebird, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrushka, and Daphnis and Chloé...
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    in The Firebird and Petrushka choreographed by Fokine. Diaghilev's next choreographic commissions went to Nijinsky. His First ballet was L'apres-midi d'un...
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    Vladimir Shklyarov (category 21st-century Russian ballet dancers)
    de Brienne in Raymonda Basilio in Don Quixote Ali in Le Corsaire Petrushka in Petrushka The Ghost of the Rose in Le Spectre de la rose Matteo in Pierre...
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    de Petrouchka or Three Movements from Petrushka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the...
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    Shrove Tuesday or "Pancake Day" (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) Petrushka (ballet) Užgavėnės (in Lithuania) Farsang (Hungarian carnival)[circular reference]...
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    commissioned Stravinsky to write three ballets: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). These ballets remain Stravinsky's most famous...
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    1916, the first productions of The Firebird and Petrushka on the Iberian peninsula took place; the Ballets Russes returned in 1921 for short season in Madrid...
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    spectre de la rose, Petrushka, The fountain of Bakhchisarai, Romeo and Juliet. He performed in the company of George Balanchin: Apollo, Ballet Imperial (later...
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    Robert Helpmann (category 20th-century ballet dancers)
    had returned to ballet for a season at Covent Garden in The Rake's Progress, Hamlet, Coppélia, Miracle in the Gorbals and Petrushka. His performance...
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    Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois. The Joffrey regularly performs classical and contemporary ballets during...
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  • The Tokyo Ballet is a classical ballet company, based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1964. It is one of the leading performing arts companies in Japan. European...
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    Pulcinella is a 21-section ballet by Igor Stravinsky with arias for soprano, tenor and bass vocal soloists, and two sung trios. It is based on the 18th-century...
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    Meyerbeer Overture to Dinorah (1938, on Testament) Stravinsky, Suite from Petrushka (ballet) (1940, on RCA Victor) Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" (1941...
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  • Petrushka is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse who was bred in Ireland and trained in the United Kingdom during a racing career which lasted from October...
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    musagetes, Apolo Musageta, and Apollo, Leader of the Muses) is a neoclassical ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was...
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  • astronomer Alexander Orlov (ballet), dancer with the Ballets Russes, portrayed the Moor in the 1911 premiere of Petrushka (ballet) Alexander Orlov (Soviet...
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    Arnold Schoenberg A Survivor from Warsaw Igor Stravinsky Orpheus (ballet) Petrushka (ballet) (2nd version) Edgard Varèse – Tuning Up Heitor Villa-Lobos –...
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  • Ballerina skirt - Ballet - Ballet (music) - Ballet blanc - Ballet d'action - Ballet company - Ballet dancer - Ballet Folklórico de México - Ballet Folklórico...
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    Igor Stravinsky (category Ballets Russes composers)
    commissioned the composer to write three ballets for the Ballets Russes's Paris seasons: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913)...
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  • century. The Petrushka chord is a recurring polytonal device used in Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and in later music. In the Petrushka chord, two...
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  • but is typical of late Debussy, with possible echoes of Stravinsky’s Petrushka (1911) and pre-echoes of his own Jeux (1913) in its textures and rhythmic...
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    Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the five major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside The Royal Ballet, the English National Ballet, Northern...
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    Giselle, and Fokine's ballets Carnaval and Scheherazade (based on the orchestral suite by Rimsky-Korsakov). His portrayal of "Petrushka," the puppet with...
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    Scottish Ballet is the national ballet company of Scotland and one of the five leading ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside the Royal Ballet, English...
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    Rudolf Nureyev (category Ballet choreographers)
    January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the most preeminent male ballet dancer of his generation as...
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    music, drama, spectacle, and dance to create a more cohesive artwork. Petrushka (1912), with music also composed by Stravinsky and set design by Alexandre...
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