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Ballet Ireland began with a conventional repertoire of well-known ballets such as The Nutcracker, [11] [12] Swan Lake [13] and The Sleeping Beauty. [5] Once fully established, it started to take works on tour, for example, a production of Giselle from 2017, [14] performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018 which The Guardian called "part modern murder mystery, part romantic ballet ...
Dame Alicia Markova DBE (1 December 1910 – 2 December 2004) was a British ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet.Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the twentieth century.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a ballet in three acts by Christopher Wheeldon with a scenario by Nicholas Wright, based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was commissioned by The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, and the National Ballet of Canada, and had its world premiere on
Queensland Ballet, founded in 1960 by Charles Lisner, is the premier ballet company of Queensland, Australia, and is based in Brisbane.It is one of only three full-time, professional classical ballet companies in Australia.
Tamara Rojo CBE (born 17 May 1974) is a Spanish ballet dancer.She was the English National Ballet's artistic director and a lead principal dancer with the company between 2012 and 2022.
Pages in category "English National Ballet" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Poster by Jean Cocteau for the 1911 Ballet Russe season showing Nijinsky in costume for Le Spectre de la rose, Paris. The Ballets Russes (French: [balɛ ʁys]) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.
Mikhail Baryshnikov was born in Riga, in the Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, now known as Latvia. [5] [6] His parents were ethnic Russians: his mother was Alexandra (a dressmaker; née Kiselyova) and his father was Nikolay Baryshnikov (an engineer).