Raymonda Variations
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Raymonda Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine
to excerpts from the first act of Glazunov's
Raymonda
(1895-97). The premiere took place on December 7, 1961, at City Center of Music and Drama
, New York, under the title Valses et Variations. Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova
had mounted a full-length production of Raymonda for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
in 1946.
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...
co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
to excerpts from the first act of Glazunov's
Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
Raymonda
Raymonda
Raymonda is a ballet in three acts, four scenes with an apotheosis, choreographed by Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his opus 57. First presented by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on in St. Petersburg, Russia...
(1895-97). The premiere took place on December 7, 1961, at City Center of Music and Drama
New York City Center
New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
, New York, under the title Valses et Variations. Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova
Alexandra Danilova
Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova was a Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen....
had mounted a full-length production of Raymonda for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was a ballet company created by members of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in 1938 after Léonide Massine and René Blum had a falling-out with the co-founder Wassily de Basil...
in 1946.
Original
- Patricia Wilde
first cast
- Ashley Bouder
- variation i
- variation ii
- variation v
- variation vi
- variation vii
- Andrew Veyette
- Savannah Lowery
- Tiler Peck
- Sara Mearns
- Rebecca Krohn
- Teresa Reichlen
second cast
- Megan FairchildMegan FairchildMegan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...
- variation i
- variation ii
- variation v
- variation vi
- variation vii
- Benjamin MillepiedBenjamin MillepiedBenjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
- Savannah Lowery
- Tiler Peck
- Sara Mearns
- Rebecca Krohn
- Teresa Reichlen
Reviews
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/arts/dance/28miam.htmlNY 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...
, April 28, 2008] - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807EED9123BF932A35751C0A967948260NY Times by Anna KisselgoffAnna KisselgoffAnna Kisselgoff is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for the New York Times. She began at the Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she held until 2005...
, February 1, 1981]
- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60C1EFB3F581B728DDDA10894DA415B818AF1D3NY Times by John MartinJohn Martin (dance critic)John Martin became America’s first major dance critic in 1927. Focusing his efforts on propelling the modern dance movement, he greatly influenced the careers of dancers such as Martha Graham...
, December 8, 1961] - http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60812F8395E1B7B93C1A81788D85F428485F9NY Times by John MartinJohn Martin (dance critic)John Martin became America’s first major dance critic in 1927. Focusing his efforts on propelling the modern dance movement, he greatly influenced the careers of dancers such as Martha Graham...
, March 13, 1946]