that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; ;

The ballet work is on the nose, especially in the opening number by `` The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students' Conservatory Band '', along with a fiery and sultry Brazilian fantasia later.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

* Ash ( ballet ), by Peter Martins ( 1991 )

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.

The ballet of the same name has been performed by other dance companies around the world.

The outbreak of World War I forced him to stop the expeditions, and he returned to composing, writing the ballet The Wooden Prince in 1914 – 16 and the String Quartet No. 2 in 1915 – 17, both influenced by Debussy.

Bartók wrote another ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin influenced by Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, as well as Richard Strauss.

* La création du monde, a 1923 ballet by Darius Milhaud

Professional dancers began to take the place of court amateurs, and ballet masters were licensed by the French government.

Shortly thereafter, the first institutionalized ballet troupe, associated with the Academy, was formed ; this troupe began as an all-male ensemble but by 1681 opened to include women as well.

The relationship of music to dance serves as the basis for Eurhythmics, devised by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, which was influential to the development of Modern dance and modern ballet through artists such as Marie Rambert.

* Finally, the theatrical presentation of flamenco is now an extended and sophisticated performance in its own right, comparable to a ballet, by such ensembles as the Maria Pagès Company.

Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique, to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment.

A full length three act classical ballet version with a score arranged from the works of Antonín Dvořák and choreographed by Lilla Pártay was premiered in 2007 by the Hungarian National Ballet, and will be revived in their 2013 season.

Elaborate cadenzas were composed by Tchaikovsky for his ballets The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty ; as well as Alexander Glazunov for his score for the ballet Raymonda.

* 1917: Parade, ballet ( music by Erik Satie, choreography by Léonide Massine )

* 1946: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, ballet by Roland Petit

* Josephslegende, 1914 ballet by Richard Strauss

The opera Le Cinesi ( The Chinese Women ) by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( 1754 ) concludes with a ballet, The Judgment of Paris, sung as a vocal quartet.

The Kansas City Ballet, founded in 1957 by Tatiana Dokoudovska, is a ballet troupe comprising 25 professional dancers and apprentices.

The changes that took place at the beginning of the 20th-century are emphasized by the fact that many modern disciplines, including sciences such as physics, mathematics, neuroscience and economics, and arts such as ballet and architecture, call their pre-20th century forms classical.

In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.

The first wood turner to carve the ornaments in this form, Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner from the Ore Mountains, is said to have been inspired by the nutcracker in the story book Tchaikovsky's ballet came from.

He has also recorded extensively in the ballet genre: Delibes's three ballets – La Source, Coppélia, Sylvia ; Riccardo Drigo's The Magic Flute and Le Réveil de Flore ; Jacques Offenbach's Le papillon ; Friedrich Burgmüller's La Péri ; and Tchaikovsky's three ballets – Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker.

The ballet and the operas of the same name by Albert Lortzing and E. T. A. Hoffmann are independent adaptations of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué novella.

In his humorous ballet Les animaux modèles ( 1942, with Serge Lifar ) Poulenc used the theme of a French patriotic song without the German officers noticing.

* Constant Lambert's ballet Horoscope was being performed in the Netherlands in 1940, and the unpublished full score had to be left behind when German forces invaded that country.

In New York in 1916 Monteux refused to conduct Nijinsky's new ballet Till Eulenspiegel as the music was by a German – Strauss, so a conductor had to engaged for those performances.

* Arnold Spohr ( 1923-2010 ), Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of German descent

Category: German ballet dancers

Category: German ballet dancers

At the time, he studied tap, jazz, flamenco, ballet and German expressionist dance.

After a change of government there, this passport was revoked in 1990, and he was given a German passport, the nationality of his wife, ballet dancer Giselle Roberge.

* Choreography for the ballet " Berschit " ( At the Beginning ) for the German Ballet-Ensemble, which was recorded from the German TV after a huge cess in Germany and on an international tour.

Meyerbeer's only mature German opera, Ein Feldlager in Schlesien is in effect a Singspiel, although act 2 has some of the characteristics of grand opera, with a brief ballet and an elaborate march.

* November 21: Uwe Scholz, 45, German dance choreographer, director Zurich Opera ballet ( 1985 – 1991 )

Category: German ballet dancers

Philippina " Pina " Bausch ( 27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009 ) was a German performer of modern dance, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director.

This was the last performance of the ballet until 1894, when Ivanov again revived the ballet for the visiting German ballerina Hedwige Hantenbürg.

* 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.

In the realm of classical music, semi-spoken music was popular stylized by composer Arnold Schoenberg as Sprechstimme, and famously used in Ernst Toch's 1924 Geographical Fugue for spoken chorus and the final scene in Darius Milhaud's 1915 ballet Les Choéphores.

Later it was the subject of a 1959 ballet by English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold and, in 1979, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim.

* June 25 – The ballet The Firebird ( L ' Oiseau de feu ), the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.

" He decides to create a starring role for Vicky in a new ballet, The Red Shoes, the music for which is to be written by Julian Craster ( Marius Goring ) a brilliant young composer engaged as orchestral coach the same day that Vicky was brought into the company.

Because of the very quiet opening pages of the ballet score, the composer added a brief " Fanfare pour précéder La Peri " which gave the typically noisy audiences of the day time to settle in their seats before the work proper began.

* Callirhoé, the only ballet written by French composer Cécile Chaminade

Spain has also played an important role within the history of western classical music, particularly in its early phase from the 15th to the 17th centuries ; ranging from a composer like Tomás Luis de Victoria, the zarzuela of Spanish opera, the ballet of Manuel de Falla, to the classical guitar music of Pepe Romero.

His father did not wish him to become a composer, but rather a banker ; however, the son defied his father's wishes, and went on to study music with the composer Joseph Drechsler and the violin with Anton Kollmann, the ballet répétiteur of the Vienna Court Opera.

During the 1930s, his career as a conductor took off with his appointment with the Vic-Wells ballet ( later The Royal Ballet ), but his career as a composer stagnated.

In 1959, after the successful performances of Theodorakis's ballet Antigone at Covent Garden in London, the French composer Darius Milhaud proposed him for the American Copley Music Prize-an award of the " William and Noma Copley Foundation ", which later changed its name to " Cassandra Foundation "-as the " Best European Composer of the Year ".

* The Nutcracker ( Histoire d ' un casse-noisette, 1844 ): a revision of Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, later set by the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to music for a ballet

The Rite of Spring, French title Le Sacre du Printemps () is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

* The Polish composer Jan Maklakiewicz ( 1899 – 1954 ) wrote the ballet in three scenes Cagliostro w Warszawie which premiered in 1938.

In 1921, composer John Alden Carpenter, long an admirer of Herriman's, approached the cartoonist to collaborate on a Krazy Kat ballet.

The composer undertook further work on the opera in early 1831 adding ballet episodes, including the " Ballet of Nuns ", which was to prove one of the opera's great sensations, becoming an early example of the ballet blanc genre.

Eastwood Lane ( May 22, 1879 – January 22, 1951 ) was an American composer who wrote piano suites and ballet music.

His father was a noted Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze ( 1862 – 1937 ), one of the initiators of the Georgian Opera, while his mother was a Russian ballet aficionado.

Another Salome ballet was composed by the Japanese composer Akira Ifukube in 1948.

The " Sabre Dance " ( Suserov par ) is a movement in the final act of the ballet Gayane, written by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian and completed in 1942.