KIROV BALLET

one of the two major ballet companies of Russia, the other being the Bolshoi Ballet. In 1991 it was officially renamed the St. Petersburg Maryinsky Ballet; however, on its frequent tours abroad it is still called the Kirov Ballet. Often regarded as the foremost European ballet company, with strict classical traditions of elegance and beauty, the company was originally the Imperial Russian Ballet. In 1889 it moved into the Maryinsky Theatre. Under the direction of Marius Petipa the company premiered the Tchaikovsky ballets Sleeping Beauty (1890) and Swan Lake (1895). The company went into decline after the Russian Revolution in 1917, but the great teacher and ballet mistress Agrippina Vaganova (1879–1951) helped preserve its traditions by training the company's principal dancers. Her work became the foundation of ballet instruction in the Soviet Union. In 1935 the company was renamed the Kirov Ballet. During the cold war, the company experienced difficulties as many of its dancers, including Nureyev, Makarova, and Baryshnikov, defected to the West. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the company has produced, along with its traditional repertoire, ballets by Balanchine and other modern choreographers. Oleg Vinogradov was the artistic director from 1977 to 1997; Valery Gergiev now holds the post.

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books on: Kirov Ballet  - 78 results

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Footnotes: Dancing the World's Best-Loved Ballets
Book by Frank Augustyn, Shelley Tanaka; Millbrook Press, 2001
Subjects: Ballet--Juvenile Literature
...snaps around like a whip. Advanced ballet students struggle to master just...he incorporated the spins into the ballet, forcing every ballerina thereafter...performance as Odette/Odile with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad. As she progressed...
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Art in Modern Ballet
Book by George Amberg; Pantheon Books, 1946
Subjects: Ballet, Scene Painting
...S. Virsaladze COMPANY: Kirov State Opera PREMIERE: Leningrad...Joseph Carl COMPANY: The London Ballet PREMIERE: London, 1940 443...LA LEGENDE DE CRACOVIE, Ballet in Two Scences BOOK: Ludwik...Ruszkowska COMPANY: The Polish Ballet PREMIERE: Paris, 1937- 1938...Nadia Benois COMPANY: Allied Ballets PREMIERE: London, 1942
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Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance
Book by Mindy Aloff; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Dance--Anecdotes, Dancers--Anecdotes
...Price I was 15 years old and a member of the de Basil Ballet Russe when I first came to London in 1933. During the...trained just about all the leading male dancers of the Kirov Ballet. His most famous pupils were Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail...
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Broadway, U.S.S.R: Ballet, Theatre, and Entertainment in Russia Today
Book by Faubion Bowers; Nelson, 1959
Subjects: Amusements--Soviet Union, Dance--Soviet Union, Theater--Soviet Union
...violinist, Igor Politkovsky, a product of the Moscow Conservatory, played Brahms and Wieniawski; the principal soprano of the Kirov Opera in Leningrad sang Delibes and Rossini; and the principal baritone of the Maly State Opera, also from Leningrad, sang...
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Movement to Music: Musicians in the Dance Studio
Book by Katherine Teck; Greenwood Press, 1990
Subjects: Ballet, Ballet Dance Music--History And Criticism, Modern Dance, Music And Dance
...composer exchanges. Mr. Cameron-Wolfe has also been exploring possible relationships between SUNY Purchase, the Kirov Ballet, and the Vaganova School of Dance and Choreography. Because he is doubly knowledgeable about work with dancers on...
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"There Are No Mothers-in-Law in Ballet": "Doing" Shakespeare in Dance
Journal article by Robin Wharton; Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 23, 2005
Subjects: Ballerinas--Performances, Ballet dancers--Performances, Ballet dancing--Methods, Ballet--Criticism and interpretation, Ballets--Criticism and interpretation
...production of Hamlet by the Bolshoi Ballet, to explore how each work uses or...Shakespeare to disrupt and critique ballets conventional modes of representing...identity. A close reading of these ballets reveals how the representational conventions of ballet as a performance medium influence the...preoccupation of the source, these ballets instead seem at least equally invested in probing and critiquing the medium of ballet performance itself. The source text...
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Dancing through the Cold War: The Case of the Nutcracker
Journal article by Catherine Gunther Kodat; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 33, 2000
Subjects: Balanchine, George--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ballet--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cold War--Analysis, The Nutcracker (Ballet)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...entered the Imperial Ballet Academy in 1914 (Volkov...have been among the ballets he appeared in before...for Moscows Bolshoi Ballet, in which it was...1934 Nutcracker for the Kirov represents the first...utcracker, however, the ballet never became especially...production staged by the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo...
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The Epoch Continues
Journal article by Marcia B. Siegel; The Hudson Review, Vol. 62, 2009
Subjects: Ballet, Ballet companies, Dancers & choreographers, Subcultures
...rehearsal studio. Boston Ballets Spectre suffered, I thought...that when they succeed, a ballet can shift subtly into focus. In a film of the Paris Opera Ballets Spectre, made in about 1991...detachment of her dream. The Kirov Ballets Igor KoIb, with Zhanna...in the larger framework of ballet art. Fokines ballets look a little naive now...
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Negotiations and Exchanges: Alan Schneider, Our Town, and Theatrical Détente
Journal article by Jeffrey Stephens; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol. 23, 2011
Subjects: Dramatists, Schneider, Alan, Theater, Theater criticism
...and Galina Panov (dancers with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad) began a hunger strike...superiority in classical music and ballet, while at the same time shielding...their home organization, the Kirov Ballet (a.k.a. Mariinsky Ballet...
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Dance and Sexuality: Many Moves
Journal article by Judith Lynne Hanna; The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 47, 2010
Subjects: Dance--Demographic aspects, Dance--Methods, Dance--Social aspects, Dancing--Demographic aspects, Dancing--Methods, Dancing--Social aspects, Sex (Psychology)--Analysis, Sexuality in dance--Analysis, Sexuality--Analysis
...dances in contemporary theater. Court. Ballet developed during the reign of Louis...of a pleasure-centered society. Ballets were imbued with love poetry extolling...p. 3). Even in its romantic ballets about an ethereal world of enchantment, ballet "also proffered lovely ladies, scantily...2007, p. El). The Washington Ballet held a cabaret called 7 x 7 in its...all on the theme of love. Some ballets, such as Prodigal Son (1929), explicitly...
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Kirov Ballet Livens Summer in New York City
Magazine article by Gia Kourlas; Dance Magazine, Vol. 73, June 1999
Subjects: Dancers--Russia, Kirov Ballet Company--Performances
KIROV BALLET LIVENS SUMMER IN NEW YORK CITY by Gia Kourlas...to be dreary--but not this year. The Kirov Ballet, in all its opulent glory, will...Not seen in New York since 1995, the Kirov presents four programs, including a new...
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Kirov Ballet
Magazine article by Arsen Degen; Dance Magazine, Vol. 73, March 1999
Subjects: Dancing--Performances, Kirov Ballet Company--Performances
KIROV BALLET by ARSEN DEGEN KIROV BALLET MARYINSKY THEATER, ST. PETERSBURG NOVEMBER...Petits Carmen and Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, the Kirov Ballet ventured on an evening of new one-act ballets. The thirty-year-old choreographer Alexei...
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How Good Is the Kirov?
Magazine article by Laura Jacobs; New Criterion, Vol. 21, September 2002
Subjects: Balanchine, George--Conduct of life, Ballet--Evaluation, Kirov Opera Company--Evaluation
...Hence, when the Kirov comes to New York...flush of glasnost, the Kirov Ballet came to New Yorks Metropolitan...with two Balanchine ballets included in its repertory...ballets, squeezing the ballets tight between babysitters...distorting the shape. These Kirov restorations remind one that ballet is an art of the eye...
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Kirov at the Crossroads
Magazine article by Clive Barnes; Dance Magazine, Vol. 69, September 1995
Subjects: Ballet companies--Russia, Kirov Ballet Company--Management, Vinogradov, Oleg--Evaluation
Kirov at the crossroads by Clive Barnes The Maryinsky Ballet, still illogically called by its old Communist brand name, Kirov Ballet, recently returned to...still justifiably designated the Kirov--that it made its first New...
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The Kirov Ballet Shows Its Versatility
Magazine article by Judith Judson; Pointe, Vol. 7, October 2006
Subjects: Ballet, Dancers & choreographers
...Versatility The June visit by the Kirov Ballet of St. Petersburg to...Forsythe Company. The only other ballet was Giselle. With this daring contrast, the Kirov made a largely successful attempt...interesting arm movements The Kirov dancers never seemed at a loss...much. The more interesting ballets were Steptext, to fractured...
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Fabled Kirov at KenCen Is a Sellout
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 9, 2002
Subjects: Balanchine, George, Kirov Ballet Company
...WASHINGTON TIMES The Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky...19th-century ballets such as "Swan...concerts, but the ballets program - next...director of the Kirov Ballet, says he is trying...with the Kirov Ballet, Opera and Orchestra...of Aurora in the Kirov Ballets "Sleeping Beauty...
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Stop-N-Go Kirov Keeps Us on Toes
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 17, 2006
Subjects: Kirov Ballet Company
...WASHINGTON TIMES The Kirov Ballet opened a weeks...modern programs any ballet company has danced here...startling coming from the Kirov home to the great 19th-century ballets created by Marius Petipa...Romantic-era classical ballets, along with works by...weekend by the prestigious Kirov Ballet company. Insets show...
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Gruelling Work Behind the Elegant Lines; SUSAN TURNER Joins the Performers of the Kirov Ballet in St Petersburg as They Prepare to Visit Birmingham
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 19, 2008
Subjects: Don Quixote (Ballet)
...as artists." Kirov Ballet will perform at The Birmingham...Companies like the Kirov are still eager to tour...Viktoria Tereshkina in the Kirov Ballets Jewels Picture, NATASHA...Petersburg, home to the Kirov Ballet; Viktoria Tereshkina...
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Stunning 'La Bayadere'; Kirov Ballet Takes Production to Dazzling Heights
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 24, 2008
Subjects: Ballet, Ballets, Dancing--Dance reviews
...Popov as the Golden God. The Kirov dances through Sunday, with...the leads later this week. Ballets this opulent dont come around...ONE-HALF STARS WHAT: The Kirov Ballet in "La Bayadere" WHEN: Tonight...MAXIMUM RATING: FOUR STARS The Kirov Ballet of St. Petersburg presents...
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CLASSICAL REVIEWS: Precious Moments; the Kirov Ballet Birmingham Hippodrome ****
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 22, 2008
Subjects: Ballet, Ballets
...Precious Moments; the Kirov Ballet Birmingham Hippodrome...array of three diverse ballet styles, three composers...Balanchine, was the Kirov Ballets opening offer to Birmingham...is with this plotless ballet. Set to a Faure score...and himself a former Kirov dancer, created Jewels...
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encyclopedia articles on: Kirov Ballet  - 7 results

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Kirov Ballet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...still called the Kirov Ballet. Often regarded...Imperial Russian Ballet. In 1889 it moved...the Tchaikovsky ballets Sleeping Beauty...great teacher and ballet mistress Agrippina...was renamed the Kirov Ballet. During the cold...traditional repertoire, ballets by Balanchine and...
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Bolshoi Ballet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...bol , one of the principal ballet companies of Russia; part...opera company. The Bolshoi Ballet began as a dancing school for...Theatre of St. Petersburg (see Kirov Ballet ). Aleksandr Gorsky revitalized...dramatic realism to the classical ballets. Igor Moiseyev experimented...
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Ballet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Russian Imperial School of Ballet had been founded in 1738...Theatre housed more than 40 ballet productions staged by the celebrated...rigorously training his corps de ballet as had not been done before...contributed many of the classic ballets still considered to be the...V. M. Gordeyev, and the Kirov Ballet (since 1991 the St...
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Nureyev, Rudolf
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...he became a soloist with the Kirov Ballet . In 1961 he defected...Paris. The leading classical ballet dancer of his generation...guest artist with the Royal Ballet , London, and elsewhere Nureyev...revised and staged several ballets, including the Marius Petipa...from 1983 to 1989 he was the ballet director of the Paris Opera...
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Makarova, Natalia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...NATALIA 1940 , Russian ballet dancer, b. Leningrad...1959, and joined the Kirov Ballet . During her career there...character in such classical ballets as Giselle (probably...she joined the American Ballet Theatre , where she danced...where she danced with the Kirov. She retired from dancing...
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