Jeux (Games) is a ballet written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "poème dansé" (literally a "danced poem"), it was written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets...
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suite after Bizet's Jeux d'enfants, Op. 21, in 1902. In 1932, Léonide Massine choreographed the entire suite as the ballet Jeux d'enfants [ru]. Libretto...
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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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Vaslav Nijinsky (redirect from Ballets by Vaslav Nijinsky)
who loved and hated this startling new style of ballet and music. Nijinsky originally conceived Jeux as a flirtatious interaction among three males, although...
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work by Debussy composed expressly for the Ballets Russes, Jeux. Indifferently received by the public, Jeux was eclipsed two weeks later by the premiere...
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Fernanda Oliveira (dancer) (category English National Ballet principal dancers)
Hammerklavier. Gerda in The Snow Queen Resolution Jeux No Man’s Land Oliveira is married to English National Ballet first soloist, Fabian Reimair. They have one...
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The Steadfast Tin Soldier is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Bizet's Jeux d'enfants, based on Hans Christian Andersen's 1838 fairytale...
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Francisco Ballet is the oldest ballet company in the United States, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the leadership of ballet master...
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This is a list of ballet dancers from the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation, including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities...
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Irina Baronova (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers)
the 1930s. She created roles in Léonide Massine's Le Beau Danube (1924), Jeux d'enfants (1932), and Les Présages (1933); and in Bronislava Nijinska's Les...
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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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Richard Thomas (dancer) (category American ballet teachers)
Souvenirs, Balanchine's Jeux, and Jerome Robbins's The Concert (or The Perils of Everybody). Thomas left the New York City Ballet in 1958 to join the circus...
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Appalachian Spring (redirect from Ballet for Martha)
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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Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) (category 1912 ballet premieres)
of the first modern ballets and proved to be as controversial as Nijinsky's Jeux (1913) and Le Sacre du printemps (1913). The ballet was developed as a...
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Raymonda (category 1898 ballet premieres)
Raymonda (Russian: Раймонда) is a grand ballet in three acts, four scenes with an apotheosis, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of...
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Bronislava Nijinska (redirect from Ballets by Bronislava Nijinska)
my brother's ballets] Jeux and The Rite of Spring. The unconscious art of those ballets inspired my initial work." This one-act ballet featured baroque...
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("légende dansée") is music by Claude Debussy originally intended for a ballet. It was composed in 1911–13, commissioned for the Canadian dancer Maud Allan...
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Eugène Ionesco's play Jeux de massacre. "Dødens Triumf". dr.dk (in Danish). 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-01. "The Royal Danish Ballet". theballetbag.com. 2015...
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Pierre Monteux (category Ballet conductors)
Stravinsky, Petrushka, Ballets Russes, Paris, 13 June 1911; Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé, Ballets Russes, Paris, 8 June 1912; Debussy, Jeux, Ballets Russes, Paris,...
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Léonide Massine (redirect from Ballets by Léonide Massine)
created Jeux d'enfants [ru] to libretto by Boris Kochno, scenic design was by Joan Miró. In 1933, Massine created the world's first symphonic ballet, Les...
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as Jeux d'enfants, with music by Georges Bizet and sets by Joan Miró. Featured dancers included David Lichine (who soon began choreographing ballets for...
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Peter Darrell (category British ballet choreographers)
that company were his modern-dress interpretations of Debussy's Jeux and the first ballet to be based on Beatles music, Mods and Rockers. In 1969 the company...
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Sergei Diaghilev (category Ballet impresarios)
Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin (Narcisse et Echo, 1911), Claude Debussy (Jeux, 1913), Maurice Ravel (Daphnis...
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"Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original...
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Boris Kochno (redirect from Ballets by Boris Kochno)
(1927), and of Sergei Prokofiev's ballet score The Prodigal Son (1929). He also wrote a libretto for Massin's ballet Jeux d'enfants [ru] to Georges Bizet...
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Winter Olympic Games (redirect from Jeux Olympiques d'hiver)
The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on...
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Tamara Toumanova (category Paris Opera Ballet étoiles)
closely with Toumanova in the creation of many of his ballets. She played the part of the Top in his Jeux d'Enfants. Balanchine created a role for her in his...
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Claude Debussy (redirect from Ballets by Claude Debussy)
commissioned a new ballet score, Jeux. That, and the three Images, premiered the following year, were the composer's last orchestral works. Jeux was unfortunate...
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Jacques Ibert (redirect from Ballets by Jacques Ibert)
writing (sometimes in collaboration with other composers) seven operas, five ballets, incidental music for plays and films, works for piano solo, choral works...
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Maurice Ravel (redirect from Ballets by Maurice Ravel)
the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies or church...
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