He choreographed ballets that involved the full company in explosive outbursts of energy. |
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You rehearse the works for so long that you can explore the nuances and feel really at home in those ballets. |
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Both the other ballets were two-piano scores, played on stage and lit so that only the pianists' profiles were visible. |
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Some of the ballets were designed to be danced in the round, and that is incredible training for a dancer. |
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Martins's two short ballets, both to John Adams music, are unabashed make-work. |
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Allan Tung brought his rich background in music and theater to create a wide spectrum of beautiful ballets. |
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This is not to say that it is a great ballet or even one that is in the top ten of short Bintley ballets but it is a good ballet. |
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The American Festival featured 15 ballets many with overtly American themes and all with American music. |
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For example, in both ballets Fonteyn's prince does not even get to dance his solo. |
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Neumeier is an amazingly creative choreographer, and premieres about two new ballets every season. |
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Balanchine thought ballets were like butterflies that could not be kept from one generation to the next. |
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The Bolshoi-trained artist says that pop music ballets were unheard of in his native Moscow. |
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Perhaps in days gone by people had more time when they attended concerts, operas, and ballets. |
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Farrell's golden reputation as a coach of the Balanchine ballets has attracted much attention. |
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Lyon Opera Ballet does classical ballets but with a new language of movement. |
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This is the last of the evening-length ballets Prokofiev wrote in the Soviet Union. |
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Whether this is the only way to make ballets now, interpreting music, certainly begs questioning. |
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Unlike his contemporaries, he often chose to commission original music for his ballets. |
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The public flocked to see the very Massine ballets that Tudor so intensely disliked. |
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I saw not one ballet by Massine and only eight performances of ballets by Fokine, all in London. |
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Actually I can tell you my plan to choreograph the other Shostakovich ballets. |
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The same could be said of musicals, operas, ballets, songs, and other narrative forms. |
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Thickly illustrated program books for each of the ballets are filled with archival drawings and photographs. |
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You are asked to give plot synopses for the big six classical ballets, and I went a bit berko here and managed to write 32 pages. |
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There are six ballets that sell, and everything else struggles at the box office. |
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These ballets were often elaborate spectacles, intended to display the status of the nobility or monarchs who had commissioned them. |
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In 1814 he moved to Lyons and then to Vienna where he choreographed numerous ballets and divertissements. |
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I feel that choreographing ballets is the same as a director directing a play. |
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Composers are not standing in line to compose ballets, and, in fact, the idiom of much modern music might not be all that suitable for dance. |
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In later years she was a coach and teacher, as well as a stager of ballets. |
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Oh well, perhaps some ballets possibly do look as though the dancers were gallantly improvising. |
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The photographer had posed the dancers in views and collages that disclosed what he considered the repressed subtexts of the ballets. |
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Both ballets were made last year, both are up-to-the minute creations with a strong sense of mood and place. |
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It is likely that the success of that ballet encouraged other ballet companies to stage their own ballets based on Offenbach potpourris. |
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In many nineteenth century ballets the women are in some way entranced, under a spell, or dead. |
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The existing Bournonville repertory ranges from full-scale story ballets to divertissements and small showpieces. |
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It is one of the world's most well loved ballets and is easily accessible to those whose knowledge of classical ballet is only limited. |
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The piece abounds in quotations from Balanchine's leotard ballets, as the master's abstract works are called because of their stark costuming. |
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By the end of 1777 he was writing operas and ballets in Naples. |
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The presentation was an enormous success, and Toye was soon much in demand, choreographing ballets and dance routines for numerous stage companies. |
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For reasons having little to do with music, none of the dances here have held on to the repertory, as the Stravinsky and Copland ballets have, for example. |
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We have a lot of ballets in our repertory, and we keep adding new ones. |
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The ballets are full of disguises, cross-dressing, and transformations. |
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What would his ballets and choreographic vocabulary look like if his production budget had been as stringent as Balanchine's during the Forties and Fifties? |
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Artistically audacious, he penned plays, ballets, sketches, and novels. |
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Christopher's ballets demonstrate a strong musicality and romanticism, which the choreographer says sets him apart from his more avant-garde contemporaries. |
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These schematized formations recall aerial ballets, spiraling nebulae or orbiting planets, tracings of tiny fireballs, even measles and skin rashes. |
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His movements are stiff and robotic, like those Bauhaus artist ballets where middle-class guys who don't know how to dance throw shapes in absurd costumes. |
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Like other great composers he mastered a wide range of musical genres, including symphonies, concerti, film music, operas, program pieces and ballets such as Romeo and Juliet. |
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He can look back at a career that has involved not only the creation of dozens of ballets, but he was also the chief motivator behind the creation of The Joyce Theater. |
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It was also adapted for inclusion in many dramatic works and ballets by such composers as Lully, Campra, and especially Rameau, and was often associated with pastoral scenes. |
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While she has a broad repertoire, her infectious exuberance and natural athleticism give her a distinctive edge in leotard ballets and soubrette parts. |
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Do you ever go back to look at other skaters' work for inspiration, such as skaters like John Curry, Belita, or even older productions of ice shows, ballets? |
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One can easily find three Ashton ballets that go beautifully together. |
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The evergreen classical ballets still have their regular and popular seasons, but trendy neo-classical works such as SwingTime at the Ballet are now equally sought after. |
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But it serves well as an accompaniment to dance for this luscious orientalist extravaganza and it is invaluable to have these three famous ballets brought together. |
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In his first year, he staged Apollo, updated The Nutcracker, commissioned Dwight Rhoden to choreograph two ballets, and created two new works himself. |
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In 1740 she returned to the stage where she spent ten successful years dancing in 78 ballets, and reaffirming her position as queen of the Paris Opera. |
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He didn't use me in the ballets for a while, then put me in Symphonie Concertante. |
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Nureyev was always inclined to overchoreograph, cramming steps onto every beat, a tendency only increased when he restaged ballets. |
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All countries have national theatres, where plays, ballets and operas are performed. |
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Shipwrecks on tempest-tossed seas are featured in a number of other ballets and operas. |
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The sheer danciness of most Balanchine ballets gives audiences a basically exhilarating time. |
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Despite its derivative nature, The Golden Mean is one of the very few son-of-Balanchine ballets with a life of its own. |
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B's deepest thoughts and feelings about ballets and ballerinas and translated them from passion into peau de soie. |
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She was most noted in the ballets of Frederick Ashton, including Ondine, Daphnis and Chloe, and Sylvia. |
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Erik Chisholm founded the Scottish Ballet Society and helped create several ballets. |
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His numerous ballets have since been staged by leading dance companies worldwide and feature strongly in the programming of the Royal Ballet today. |
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His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. |
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Proposing that these ballets are best left unrevived, Jose Sasportes brings up their likelihood to interfere with Verdi's commitment to fast-paced dra ma. |
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So we get semi-plot ballets without a storyline in sight, offering nothing but aimless, meaningless, and therefore artistically destructive, cheap emoting. |
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In his five years of choreographing, Wheeldon has created more than 20 ballets, for the New York City Ballet, Royal Ballet, Boston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and others. |
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He is the author of sixteen operas, fifteen ballets, around thirty concertante works, and almost a hundred chamber works all the way from duets to nonets. |
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