In 1814 he moved to Lyons and then to Vienna where he choreographed numerous ballets and divertissements. |
The popularity of the stage ballet intensified a vogue for social dancing and for the staging of private divertissements in the homes of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. |
But brevity is the soul of wit, and Lemoine's well-crafted divertissements have enchanted theatregoers for the past 22 years. |
One of Tarzan's chief divertissements was the baiting of the blacks. |
It looked magnificent and was a suitable backdrop for the divertissements of the wedding celebrations. |
A new, charming pas de cinq opened the Act III divertissements, set to a passage of Tchaikovsky music that Petipa never used. |