Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
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The Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine
to an excerpt from Swan Lake
, Op. 20, Act III, (1877) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
. The premiere took place on Tuesday, March 29, 1960, at City Center of Music and Drama
, New York.
Described by the New York City Ballet as "an eight-minute display of ballet bravura and technique", the piece uses music rediscovered in the archives of the Bolshoi Theatre
. When Anna Sobeshchanskaya starred in the fourth performance of the 1877 Moscow production, she asked for more material for the role of Odile. Tchaikovsky hurriedly composed an extra number, but as it was not part of the original score and was not published with the rest of Swan Lake it was forgotten for more than 70 years. When the music was found in the Bolshoi archives in 1953, Balanchine successfully sought permission to use it for his own choreography.
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
to an excerpt from Swan Lake
Swan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
, Op. 20, Act III, (1877) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
. The premiere took place on Tuesday, March 29, 1960, at City Center of Music and Drama
New York City Center
New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
, New York.
Described by the New York City Ballet as "an eight-minute display of ballet bravura and technique", the piece uses music rediscovered in the archives of the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
. When Anna Sobeshchanskaya starred in the fourth performance of the 1877 Moscow production, she asked for more material for the role of Odile. Tchaikovsky hurriedly composed an extra number, but as it was not part of the original score and was not published with the rest of Swan Lake it was forgotten for more than 70 years. When the music was found in the Bolshoi archives in 1953, Balanchine successfully sought permission to use it for his own choreography.
New York City Ballet
| City Center of Music and Drama New York City Center New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall... , March 29, 1960 |
Violette Verdy Violette Verdy Violette Verdy is a French ballerina who has worked as a director of dance companies and in other related capacities since her retirement from performing in the late 1970s. Verdy began dance training as a small child and performed with Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées beginning in 1945... |
Conrad Ludlow Conrad Ludlow Conrad Ludlow is a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet under George Balanchine. He also danced at San Francisco Ballet and founded and directed Ballet Oklahoma... |
| 2008 Saratoga Springs | Abi Stafford | Benjamin Millepied Benjamin Millepied Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:... |
| 2009 | Ana Sophia Scheller | Gonzalo Garcia |
| 2009 tour to Japan | Megan Fairchild Megan Fairchild Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ... /Abi Stafford/Tiler Peck |
Joaquín De Luz Joaquin de Luz Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:... /Jared Angle/Gonzalo Garcia |
| 2010 | Ashley Bouder/Megan Fairchild | Andrew Veyette/Joaquín De Luz |
Other companies
| Royal Ballet, London, March 16, 1964 | Violette Verdy | Edward Villella Edward Villella Edward Villella is an American ballet dancer and choreographer, frequently cited as America's most celebrated male dancer at the time.... |
| ABT American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today... , Festival Internacional de Santander Festival Internacional de Santander The Festival Internacional de Santander is one of Spain's oldest music festivals. Each year, during the month of August it presents two to three operas as well as performances from visiting ballet and theatre companies, solo recitals, and choral, symphonic, and chamber music concerts... , August 11, 1970 |
Mimi Paul | Bruce Marks |
| Jacob's Pillow Jacob's Pillow Jacob’s Pillow Dance is a dance center, school and performance space located in Becket, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. The organization is known for the oldest internationally acclaimed summer dance festival in the United States. The facility also includes a professional school and extensive... , August 1983 |
Lisa Hess | Joseph Duell |
Reviews
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E6DE1E3BF933A05756C0A9649C8B63NY Times, Jack AndersonJack Anderson (dance critic)Jack Anderson is an American dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times...
, May 30, 2002]
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE0DF1638F936A2575BC0A965948260NY Times, Jennifer DunningJennifer DunningJennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
, August 15, 1983]