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Founded in the 18th century and originally known as the Imperial Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet is one of the world's leading ballet companies. Internationally in some quarters, the Mariinsky Ballet continues to be known by its former Soviet name the Kirov Ballet. The Mariinsky Ballet is the parent company of the Vaganova Ballet Academy ...
Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th-century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres. Through most of the Soviet era, it was known as the Kirov Theatre. Today, the Mariinsky Theatre is home to the Mariinsky Ballet, Mariinsky Opera and ...
The Kirov’s spring and winter performance series were held in the academy’s 300-seat auditorium. Annually, the six performances served more than 1,800 people, including student performers, family members, children (including from underserved populations), and ballet aficionados of all ages.
Her parents found her a Russian ballet teacher in the Austin area, [6] and she attended a dance school that specialized in the Vaganova method. [5] She trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet, and then attended the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia in 2009 after Academy teachers noticed her at that year's summer intensive. [2]
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 Romeo and Juliet. First composed in 1935, it was substantially revised for its Soviet premiere in early 1940. Prokofiev made from the ballet three orchestral suites and a ...
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil bɐ'rɨʂnʲɪkəf]; Latvian: Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 27, 1948) [1] is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. [2] He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s. He ...
Jean-Baptiste Landé founded Russian ballet. Empress Anna (1730–1740) was devoted to ostentatious amusements (balls, fireworks, tableaux), and in the summer of 1734 ordered the appointment of Jean-Baptiste Landé as dancing master in the military academy she had founded in 1731 for sons of the nobility. In 1738, he became ballet master and ...
Sergei Mironovich Kirov [a] (born Kostrikov; [b] 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph ...