evoui

That's going to be a tall order! The Imperial Theaters didn't have a photography department until the Vsevolozhsky directorate in the 1890s. Also, photography was in its infancy. The technologies available to those wishing to "have their image struck" was limited by the extremely long exposure times needed to make the picture. The collodion process was only invented in 1851 in England, and while it swept western Europe, I don't know how many photographers in Russia adopted it, or when. There were some working in the earlier Daguerreotype or Niepceotype technology, but these methods required the sitters to remain quite still for several minutes. You often see pictures from this era with the studio's neck-brace and arm-rest much in evidence.

oh! i see! thats why i cant find any pics from this ballet.ok ty mel!

its the first job of Marius Petipa that made him famous. he choreographed it at 1855 at St.Petersburg.

i cant find any photos of this ballet.anyone can help me? :mellow: ty

I added all of Marius Petipa's works for the Imperial Ballet to the wikipedia.org web page on Petipa. Heres the link -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Petipa

Ive also acquired a ton of photos on my PC that I could share, though Im sure there are few on this site that have better stuff regarding photos that I do!

--Solor

solor ty my friend nice job :)

My name is Evi Bibila and i am a student at Andromaxi Kafantari's professional danceshcool in

Thessaloniki (Greece).. The reason why i contact with you is that i have a project about Marius Petipa and i would like to ask for some further information(photos). I would

kindly request a list of all his plays,photografs and whatever you concider that might be usefull to help me presentate Marius Petipa in a seminar about ballet.

thank you in advance!