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Is there any video that has the pas de deux of Esmeralda by Drigo.....I have the Pas de Six in 2 different versions already, just wondering if anyone can help.

I know that the impressions about the Kirovs new Bayadere are described in great detail throughout this site, and that everyones opinion is known, but it would be nice if someone who is knowledgable about the new (or old) version could give me details about the changes that were made. Music, choreography and dances would be nice, for example, what number really went where, or restored music that was long deleted, if any. Im especially interested in the line up of numbers in the betrothal scene, and the action. Also the Shades scene (I know that 42 dancers are used in the entrance) and the scene that preceeds it in Solors room, and what happens afterward. The last act line up to. WHAT WOULD REALLY BE COOL is if some one knew the listing of numbers.....sort of like a track listing on liner notes for a CD. This is my favorite theatrical work and anyone who could tell me NITTY GRITTY details about it would give me the next best thing to actually seeing it. Im sick of finding the slim pikins worth of details on the net. Thanks!

I know that the impressions about the Kirovs new Bayadere are described in great detail throughout this site, and that everyones opinion is known, but it would be nice if someone who is knowledgable about the new (or old) version could give me details about the changes that were made. Music, choreography and dances would be nice, for example, what number really went where, or restored music that was long deleted, if any. Im especially interested in the line up of numbers in the betrothal scene, and the action. Also the Shades scene (I know that 42 dancers are used in the entrance) and the scene that preceeds it in Solors room, and what happens afterward. The last act line up to. WHAT WOULD REALLY BE COOL is if some one knew the listing of numbers.....sort of like a track listing on liner notes for a CD. This is my favorite theatrical work and anyone who could tell me NITTY GRITTY details about it would give me the next best thing to actually seeing it. Im sick of finding the slim pikins worth of details on the net. Thanks!

I have a video of Makarovas Paquita by ABT (ABT AT THE MET, OR MIXED BILL) and I was just wondering where she got the variation that Susan Jaffe dances. Is it Minkus? What ballet does it come from?

All of the ballets available through the site Christopher Seminars are copies of other recordings...for example; his recording of Bayadere is a copy of the version by Sofia National Orch. conducted by Spassov

I have won many competions, I have never done Prix de Lausanne(yet) (sRRY GUYS IM BAD AT SPELLIN AND TYPING)but I always felt they were just not OK for the art of ballet......ballet is an art, not a mathmatical exercise that should be critiqued on its perfection. I say this only as a person who has been in ove with the ART of ballet from a very young age. I never fell in love with the obsession people in modern times have with the technique of it. I know that tis is an age old debate, but we can really learn alot from the people of the past who founf more strength in the emotions of ballet and not the technique. Just my opinion. Please leave lots of feedback everyone! Im curious to know how everyone feels, not about what I think, but about what they think of the idea of art verse technique.....competitions to!

I recently read that the Bolshoi took Lacotte's reconstruction of La Fille du Pharaon out of the repertoire.....WHY??????

You are definitely right about that Madame. I just meant that for myself personally I was disheartened by MY OWN experience and I was wondering if there was anyone who felt the same. Thanks for your response . Although the works of the people I mentioned aren’t my faves, I do indeed have a great respect for them.... please don’t think I don’t.

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sorry you guys didnt mean to offend!

Ballet is an interpreted artform and not a sport that should be juged.

I fell in love with the grand ballet of the 19th century when I was young. I trained and danced in a big company and quit when I found myself dancing less of the classics and more of the contemporary works of today which I find uninteresting and stupid. Im probably the only person in the world that only like a few of Balanchines works or Tudor or Grham. Is there anyone who is like me?

I am iin a regional dance company and I have been asked to put together a performance of Swan lake. Its really a very special recording of this ballet by the Maryinsky Orchestra cunducted by Victor Fedotov. It has the Petipa/Drigo/Ivanov version of the music that is the modern standard. It is out of print. IF ANYONE HAS THIS RECORDING, would it be possible, if I provided blank CDs, to burn this for me? It would help me and the dancers out so much as we are stuck with a piano rendition!

-Distressed

I am iin a regional dance company and I have been asked to put together a performance of Swan lake. Its really a very special recording of this ballet by the Maryinsky Orchestra cunducted by Victor Fedotov. It has the Petipa/Drigo/Ivanov version of the music that is the modern standard. It is out of print. IF ANYONE HAS THIS RECORDING, would it be possible, if I provided blank CDs, to burn this for me? It would help me and the dancers out so much as we are stuck with a piano rendition!

-Distressed

Does anybody know if the Kirov is ever going to record any of thier classical repretiore? I relly wnat to know about thier recent revivals of Sleeping Beaytu and Las Bayadere. Thanks!

The Swan Lake by the Kirov on CD is out of print

I have a recording of a CD called "The art of the prima Ballerina" by Richard Bonynge and it has the Drigo/Tchaikovsky Black Swan as de Deux on it.

I was wondering if anybody knows if and when the Kirov is going to put thier revivals of Bayader and The Sleeping Beauty onto video/dvd. How about the music? Someone NEEDS to put these masterpeices onto CD. The Sleeping Beuty is always recorded in its entirety and without the performance cuts. Bayadere is just neglected and whats out their of it is slim pickins. Thnaks

I have not seen the new Mariinsky version of La Bayadere. I have long dreamed that someone would FINALY restage the ballet to a more or less "original" state as staged by Petipa. Now that it has been done, I would like to know, if anyone can explain, the deatails of the differences between the recent revival, and the truncated version the Mariinsky has been performing for the last half century. Please tell me! I want details BAD! Thanks.