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    Russian ballet (Russian: Русский балет) (French: Ballet russe) is a form of ballet characteristic of or originating from Russia. Until 1689, ballet in...
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  • Mariinsky Ballet (Russian: Балет Мариинского театра) is the resident classical ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded...
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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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    The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet is a school of classical ballet in St Petersburg, Russia. Established in 1738 during the reign of Empress Anna...
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    ballet, other countries and cultures soon adopted the art form, most notably Russia. Russia has a recognized tradition of ballet, and Russian ballet has...
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    Examples of this are Russian ballet, French ballet, and Italian ballet. Later variations, such as contemporary ballet and neoclassical ballet, incorporate both...
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    by classifications such as Russian ballet, French ballet, British ballet and Italian ballet. For example, Russian ballet features high extensions and...
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    Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie;...
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  • The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi...
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    Russian Ballet" or "Diaghilev's Russian Ballet." To add to the confusion, some publicity material spelled the name in the singular. The names Ballet Russe...
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  • Ivanovich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Пу́шкин; 7 September 1907 – 20 March 1970) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet master. His students...
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    Mikhail Baryshnikov (category Russian male ballet dancers)
    American Ballet Theatre, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer for one season to learn about George Balanchine's neoclassical Russian style...
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  • productions by the Russian ballet company Ballets Russes had a large influence on fashion design in Paris. Designers incorporated ballet-inspired themes...
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  • Because ballet became formalized in France, a significant part of ballet terminology is in the French language. Contents Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M...
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    A ballet dancer is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet. They rely on years of extensive training...
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    (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, romanized: Zhar-ptitsa) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky....
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  • Igor Zelensky (category 20th-century Russian ballet dancers)
    Zelenskiy; Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Зеленский; born 13 July 1969) is a Russian ballet dancer. Zelensky was born on 13 July 1969, in Labinsk, Russian SFSR...
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    full-length classical ballet in two or three acts, first choreographed by Louis Mérante to music by Léo Delibes. The ballet's premiere took place on...
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    and Ballet (Russian: Ленинградский государственный академический театр оперы и балета) 1935 – 1992: Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Russian:...
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    (Russian: Мариус Иванович Петипа), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818 – 14 July [O.S. 1 July] 1910), was a French and Russian ballet dancer...
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    Swan Lake (category 1877 ballet premieres)
    Swan Lake (Russian: Лебеди́ное о́зеро, tr. Lebedínoje ózero, IPA: [lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə] listen), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr...
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    American Ballet in 1934 as well as the New York City Ballet in 1948. Balanchine was born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire...
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  • Ballet technique is the foundational principles of body movement and form used in ballet. It is an important aspect of ballet performance because ballet...
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    Sergei Diaghilev (category Russian ballet)
    also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers...
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  • United States in 2004, and the Russian Ballet Orlando performed La Esmeralda for the first time in 2021. Most Western ballet companies only perform two Esmeralda-related...
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    Anna Pavlova (category 20th-century ballet dancers)
    a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes...
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    Maria Khoreva (category 21st-century Russian ballet dancers)
    Vladimirovna Khoreva (Russian: Мария Владимировна Хорева; born 3 July 2000 ) is a Russian ballet dancer and first soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet since 2018. Khoreva...
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    they won the gold medal at 2014 Winter Olympics. Serge de Diaghileff's Russian Ballet Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Ansermet (Columbia Recording, 1916)....
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    Romeo and Juliet (Russian: Ромео и Джульетта, romanized: Romeo i Dzhulyetta), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play...
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    Olesya Novikova (category Mariinsky Ballet first soloists)
    Olesya Novikova (Russian: Олеся Новикова) is a Russian ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Theatre. She was born in Saint Petersburg...
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