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 ballet half was sold to Willam and Harold Christensen, who became artistic director and appointed director of the San Francisco Ballet School, respectively.

* 1919 – Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer ( d. 1991 )

At 20, she went to live in New York for two years at Christopher and Greenwich to study ballet and English between movies.

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.

* May 18 – Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer ( d. 1991 )

** Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer ( b. 1919 )

He also " plunged " himself into a multitude of interests, including abstract painting, ballet, English and French literature, opera, and horseback riding.

The word ballet comes from the French and was borrowed into English around 1630.

Sadler's Wells, under Lilian Baylis, nurtured talent that led to the development of an opera company, which became the English National Opera ( ENO ), a theatre company, which evolved into the National Theatre, and a ballet company, which eventually became the English Royal Ballet.

Sheen had a long-distance relationship with English ballet dancer Lorraine Stewart from late 2004 until mid-2010.

An English ballet adaptation of the same title, with choreography by David Bintley and music by Paul Reade, premiered on 13 February 1989 by Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, London.

* Spellings of loanwords often adhere to, or are influenced by, the orthography of the source language ( as with the English words ballet and fajita, from French and Spanish respectively, and with the Thai word เบ ี ยร ์ " beer ", which includes a letter for the final consonant " r " which appears in the English word it was borrowed from, even though this letter is not pronounced ).

In the original Italian, the terms ballerino ( a male dancer, usually in ballet ) and ballerina do NOT imply the accomplished and critically acclaimed dancers once meant by the terms ballerina and danseur noble when used in English.

In the English speaking world, boys or men who dance classical ballet are usually referred to as ( male ) ballet dancers.

* Robert Irving ( conductor ) ( 1913-1991 ), English ballet conductor, son of R. L. G. Irving

Category: English ballet dancers

Birmingham Royal Ballet ( BRB ) is one of the three major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside The Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet.

Her intention was to form a repertory ballet company and school, leading her to collaborate with the English theatrical producer and theatre owner Lilian Baylis.

Besides being involved in the early days of English ballet, Lopokova appeared on the stage in London and Cambridge from 1928, and was broadcast on the BBC as a presenter and in a number of acting roles ; she read " The Red Shoes " over the BBC in 1935 ( and a few years later reprised it for BBC television ).

Sir Anton Dolin ( 27 July 190425 November 1983 ) was an English ballet dancer and choreographer.

Category: English ballet dancers

* Xander Parish, English ballet dancer