Grazioso (ballet)
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Grazioso is a ballet made on New York City Ballet
by Peter Martins
, its balletmaster-in-chief, to music by Mikhail Glinka
. The premiere took place at City Ballet's fall gala, Tuesday, November 20, 2007, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
.
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
by Peter Martins
Peter Martins
Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...
, its balletmaster-in-chief, to music by Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...
. The premiere took place at City Ballet's fall gala, Tuesday, November 20, 2007, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...
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Music
- A Life for the TsarA Life for the TsarA Life for the Tsar , as it is known in English, although its original name was Ivan Susanin is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Nestor Kukolnik, Georgy Fyodorovich Rozen,...
, Act II- Mazurka
- Pas de Quatre
- Cracovienne
- Ruslan and Ludmila, Act III
- Pas de Trois
original
- Ashley Bouder
- Gonzalo Garcia
- Daniel Ulbricht
- Andrew Veyette
2008 Saratoga Springs
- Ashley Bouder
- Gonzalo Garcia
- Daniel Ulbricht
- Andrew Veyette
Reviews
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E6D61531F931A15752C1A9619C8B63NY Times by Jennifer DunningJennifer DunningJennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
, November 22, 2007]