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    In ballet, a pas de deux [pɑ d(ə) dø] (French, literally "step of two") is a dance duet in which two dancers, typically a male and a female, perform ballet...
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    Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky originally intended for act 3 of Swan...
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  • Pas de Deux is a double concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra by the American composer James Horner. The work was commissioned by the Norwegian brother/sister...
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  • featuring slow, controlled movements. The section of a grand pas (e.g., grand pas de deux), often referred to as grand adage, that features dance partnering...
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    the scene Le Jardin animé, the Pas d’esclave, the Pas de trois des odalisques, and the so-called Le Corsaire pas de deux (music mostly by Riccardo Drigo)...
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  • Esmeralda-related pieces—La Esmeralda pas de deux and La Esmeralda pas de six—and the Diane and Actéon Pas de Deux, which is actually not excerpted from...
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  • Look up pas de deux in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pas de deux is a ballet duet in which steps are performed together. Pas de deux may also refer...
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  • Pas de deux (released as Duo in the United States) is a 1968 short dance film by Norman McLaren, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Pas de...
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    A pas de deux is an equestrian performance using two horses. The horses perform dressage movements, usually mirroring each other, and almost always accompanied...
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    created the pas de deux to music by Ludwig Minkus, ballet composer to the St Petersburg Imperial Theatres. The piece was a standard pas de deux classique...
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    Bluebird Pas de Deux is a 1941 arrangement for chamber orchestra of a short section of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty composed by Igor...
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  • Pas de Deux is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. It is named after the Ballet term pas de deux ("dance for two")...
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    Pas de deux; the Diana and Actéon Pas de deux; La Halte de Cavalerie Pas de deux; the Don Quixote Pas de deux; La Fille Mal Gardée Pas de deux; and the...
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    Giselle Act II pas de deux with Alicia Alonso; and the Don Quixote pas de deux, Giselle Act II pas de deux, and The Nutcracker Act II pas de deux, all with...
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    Pas de Deux (Walter Verdin, Dett Peyskens and Hilde van Roy) were a Belgian band, best known for their participation in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest...
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  • Pas de Deux is a ballet made for New York City Ballet by Jacques d'Amboise to Webern's Six pieces for orchestra. The premiere took place May 29, 1969...
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    While still in his teens, Balanchine choreographed his first work, a pas de deux named La Nuit (1920, music by Anton Rubinstein), a piece which the school...
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    Taylor's Airs and Balanchine's Pas de Deux from Swan Lake. Her 2008–09 Annenberg Fellowship included training for the Pas de Deux. Late that year, she performed...
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  • January 22, 2005, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. The final pas de deux is commonly performed separately from the remainder of the ballet. After...
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    Variation (ballet) (redirect from Pas seul)
    variation (sometimes referred to as a pas seul, meaning to dance alone) is a solo dance. In a classical grand pas de deux, the ballerina and danseur each perform...
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  • Guide: Unrequited". NBC. Retrieved February 23, 2009. "Episode Guide: Pas de Deux". NBC. Retrieved February 23, 2009. "Episode Guide: Mis-Labeled". NBC...
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    Natalia Osipova (category Prix Benois de la Danse winners)
    the Shrew: Katerina Rhapsody: Soloist Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux: Soloist Raymonda Grand Pas de Deux: Soloist Russian Seasons: Couple in Red Gaîté Parisienne:...
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    Dance Spirit Magazine in April 2017. In May 2017, she was featured in a pas de deux in Alberta Ballet Company's production, "Our Canada" choreographed by...
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  • decades. Gorsky's version of the Grand pas de deux from the second act, loosely known as La Fille mal gardée pas de deux, is now a famous repertory excerpt...
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    many bemoaned the fact that the ballerina did not dance until the Grand Pas de Deux near the end of the second act (which did not occur until nearly midnight...
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    Lovette's The Shaded Line and Ratmansky's Voices. In 2017, she performed a pas de deux in Balanchine's Agon with then-American Ballet Theatre soloist Calvin...
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    Giselle (category Ballets by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges)
    music for Fitz-James's required pas. This pas de deux, which was dubbed the Pas des paysans (or Peasant pas de deux), became part of the ballet's performance...
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  • guest, and returned to dance in other productions, such as Tchaikovsky Pas de deux, The Two Pigeons and Giselle. As a guest artist, Salenko has also performed...
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    in Etudes, The Nutcracker, Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and the Don Quixote Pas de Deux. At the age of sixteen, Sir Frederick Ashton chose and...
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  • and third sailor in Fancy Free, Hilarion and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, the pas de deux in Jabula, Gaston in Lady of the Camellias, the Jailer...
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