Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.

Mr. Ailey's `` Roots Of The Blues '', an earthy and very human modern dance work, provided strong contrast to the ballet selections of the evening.

Diaghilev commissioned Prokofiev's first ballet, Ala and Lolli, but rejected the work in progress when Prokofiev brought it to him in Italy in 1915.

Prokofiev's inexperience in ballet led him to revise the work extensively in the 1920s, following Diaghilev's detailed critique, prior to its first production.

Stravinsky called the ballet " the single piece of modern music he could listen to with pleasure ," while Ravel called it " a work of genius.

51, a work commissioned by Serge Lifar, who had been appointed maitre de ballet at the Paris Opéra.

* 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.

Verdi made a number of cuts in 1866, after finishing the opera but before composing the ballet, simply because the work was becoming too long.

Ravel began work with impresario Sergei Diaghilev during 1909 for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé commissioned by Diaghilev with the lead danced by the famous ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.

Ravel ’ s body of work includes pieces for piano, chamber works, two piano concerti, ballet music, opera, and song cycles.

It is best known in the form of late Romantic ballet or Ballet Blanc, which preoccupies itself with the female dancer to the exclusion of almost all else, focusing on pointe work, flowing, precise acrobatic movements, and often presenting the dancers in the conventional short white French tutu.

Subsequent developments now include contemporary ballet and post-structural ballet, seen in the work of William Forsythe in Germany.

Among the most notable are Jumbo ( 1935 ), On Your Toes ( 1936, which included the ballet " Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ", choreographed by George Balanchine ), Babes in Arms ( 1937 ), I Married an Angel ( 1938 ), The Boys from Syracuse ( 1938 ), Pal Joey ( 1940 ), and their last original work, By Jupiter ( 1942 ).

Animator John Hench was assigned to work on the segment, but resisted as he knew little about ballet.

In the 20th century, Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote Job, a masque for dancing which premiered in 1930, although the work is closer to a ballet than a masque as it was originally understood.

Dukas's last major work was the sumptuous oriental ballet La Péri ( 1912 ).

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.

The first result of the new thinking was Gluck's reformist ballet Don Juan, but a more important work was soon to follow.

There is some evidence that the sets for the Met's production had been taken from some of their other operas, and at the second performance that season the work was given in concert, with the ballet sequences omitted ; in this form the work traveled to Boston, where it was performed on 3 March 1895.

He continued to study through the 1910s, before writing the ballet Le dit des jeux du monde in 1918, generally considered to be his first characteristic work.

Balfe also pursued composing: in Italy, he wrote his first dramatic work, a ballet, La Perouse.

or the Love For Three Oranges ( gay as it is ) with the wonderful, imaginative, colorful, and subtle tenderness of the magnificent ballet, The Stone Flower.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

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 ; ;

It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

This is all the more remarkable because the Kirov is to ballet what Senator Goldwater is to American politics.

But, obviously, at least some things have changed for the better in Russia so far as the ballet is concerned.

But barring a miracle, and don't hold your breath for it, Chicago will not see the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet, which stems from the ballet cradle of the Maryinsky and is one of the great companies of the world.

Under the surface of the wide range of folk movements is apparent a sound technical ballet training, and an equally professional sense of performing.

This scene is a `` white ballet '' in which a lovelorn hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily beautiful `` shadows '' who can all dance like nothing human -- which, of course, is altogether fitting.

the Briton Stirling Moss, one of the greatest virtuosi of all time, believes that ultra-fast road-circuit driving is an art form related to ballet.

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

The opera is set during the First Crusade and it features a dramatic mix of ballet, aria, ensemble and choral writing combining theatricality, scenic splendor and high emotionalism.

The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.

Diana is also a character in the 1876 Léo Delibes ballet Sylvia.

These include the half toe loop ( ballet jump ), half loop, half flip, walley jump, split jump ( there are two kinds of split jump, Russian split, performed in a position that is similar to that of a straddle split and ladies split performed in the position of the more traditional split, facing the direction of your front leg ), waltz jump, inside Axel, and one-foot Axel.

The triceps surae is the primary plantar flexor and its strength becomes most obvious during ballet dancing.

An important plantar flexor, it is crucial for ballet dancing.

* 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.

His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical film, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences.