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    ALEXANDER BOGATYROV (Александр Богатырёв) – Unknown variation

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    You are right, Marcial, this mazurka introduced by Tsiskatidze himself extended the variation, full of leaps and tours, by about 20 seconds and added a genteel, courtly feeling to it.

    Rodkin dutifully repeated the variation danced by his mentor.

    If you intend to do further research on this subject, the Vaganova Academy’s contacts are here:
    and International Department of the Academy:  

    ALEXANDER BOGATYROV (Александр Богатырёв) – Unknown variation

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    Marcial, my knowledge is not extraordinary at all. I personally knew only something about it, so additionally I conferred with a person whom I called 'a most reliable source'.
    To answer your new question about “The Stream” I am now looking into the excellent book “Russian Ballet Encyclopaedia” published in Russian in Moscow in 1997. 
    “The Stream" originated in 1866 as “La Source” in Opera de Paris with music by Léo Delibes and Ludwig Minkus and choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon. 
    Saint-Léon’s version was adapted and presented at Mariinsky by Achille Coppini in 1902. Conductor: Riccardo Drigo. Dancers: Olga Preobrajenskaya, Yulia Sedova, Anna Pavlova, Maria Petipa, Nikolai Legat.
    In 1925, this ballet was shown at the graduation performance by Leningrad Choreographic School (now Vaganova Academy). Choreographer Vladimir Ponomarev. Dancers: Marina Semyonova, Alexandr Pushkin.
    Now this ballet is mainly remembered for one reason only — for a sensational emergence of the new star Marina Semyonova. Her photo in “The Stream" can be seen in this article:

    https://danceinternational.org/our-ballet-soviet-style/
     

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    ALEXANDER BOGATYROV (Александр Богатырёв) – Unknown variation

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    The link below is for the exсerpts from Grand pas classique in “Paquita" restored at Bolshoi by the choreographer Yuri Burlaka and recorded in 2010. In Russia, the male dancers, like ballerinas, often choose a variation themselves, so different dancers do different versions.
    Nikolai Tsiskaridze chose Lavrovsky’s version for his main variation!
    Angelina Vorontsova was dancing Mary’s variation from P.L.Hertel’s “Trilby” with choreography by Marius Petipa.
     

     

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    ALEXANDER BOGATYROV (Александр Богатырёв) – Unknown variation

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    Oh, of blessed memory, danseur noble Alexander Bogatyrev who left us so early.

    This was a variation from “Paquita" by the choreographer Leonid Lavrovsky. Music was written by the Italian composer Riccardo Drigo for Nikolai Legat in the ballet “The Stream”.  In the XX century Lavrovsky included it in “Paquita".

    This information came from a most reliable source.

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    World Ballet Day - 2 Nov 2022

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    On 04/10/2022 at 14:55, Sim said:

    Sadly but understandably, none of the Russian companies this year.  But what a range of companies from across the world; I think I will be glued to my computer all day long!

     

     

    The Russian theatres will not be taking part in World Ballet Day on 2 November, but The Bolshoi Theatre will host its annual live stream of dance on its YouTube channel on the eve of World Ballet Day.

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    Mayerling, Royal Ballet Autumn 2022

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    23 hours ago, JohnS said:

    I very much enjoyed Saturday evening’s performance - the cinema cast. Osipova and Hirano were hugely impressive. Rather oddly I thought Osipova was at her most explosive in the card scene where her delight in what the cards told her was veering on the manic. But the Hirano/Osipova PDDs ratcheted up the tension and I found their final scene compelling.

     

    I also was impressed with Osipova’s acting in a 'fortune-telling' scene. There was so much trepidation in her and her short solo dance after the card was opened was almost childlike rapturous.
    Someone on the forum mentioned earlier that her Maria Vetsera was too “knowing”, that is, experienced in her behaviour for a 17-year-old girl. I noticed too that she was acting pretty daringly from the very first moment and how invitingly she opened her coat and appeared in a light black negligee. However, considering her infatuation with the Crown Prince such behaviour can be justified. She sighed over his portrait, idolized him, dreamed of him and imagined how she would fall into his arms. And, of course, Larish, whose goal was to please and save Rudolf, kindled her expectations, encouraged her and most likely instructed her. Maria knew why she was brought to his bedroom, she herself longed for this meeting and was not going to be shy, she was ready to give herself to her desired one.
    As one of the critics wrote about Osipova’s performance: "She gave everything and even more.” I also found her performance last Saturday compelling. As well as others on that night: Hirano, Morera, Hayward...

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    Nureyev: Legend and Legacy - September, Drury Lane

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    1 hour ago, LinMM said:

    Cesar Corrales is definitely on top form at the moment. This should be a very exciting and interesting gala though I’m not going unfortunately. 

     

    The rehearsal looks great. I think he adds something else to the original choreography.

    This is how pas de six was danced at Mikhailovsky Theatre with young Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsadwIwp0U

     

     

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    BALLETS BASED ON REAL LIFE

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    4 hours ago, Peanut68 said:

    ...   ‘The Three Sisters’ as I recall reading somewhere that Chekhov’s initial inspiration was the 3 Brontë sisters…. Possibly a bit tenuous….

     

     I am afraid it is a confusion. The work of Chekhov on "Three Sisters" is described in detail and it has never been mentioned by his biographers or researchers that he wrote this play with the Bronte sisters in mind.
    Chekhov as a playwright is so extraordinarily popular and in demand that modern authors experiment with his works, "add" and "rewrite" them and create new, "secondary" literary texts. For example, the English playwright Blake Morrison wrote the play “We Are Three Sisters” where he showed the Bronte family and their entourage as characters in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”. There, in a Yorkshire village, in the house of the parish priest Patrick Bronte, his three daughters Charlotte (Olga), Emily (Masha), Ann (Irina) and his only son Branwell (Andrey) live.  This story was not written by Chekhov. Therefore, the ballet “The Winter Dreams” have no connection with Bronte sisters at all.
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    BALLETS BASED ON REAL LIFE

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    Ballet “Pushkin” — Kirov Ballet, 1979. Music by Andrei Petrov. Choreography by N.Kasatkina and V.Vasilyov.
     
              Ballets by Boris Eifman:
    1993 - "Tchaikovsky" to the music by Tchaikovsky.
    1999 - "Russian Hamlet" ("Son of Catherine the Great") to music by       Beethoven, Mahler.
    1997 - "Red Giselle” (based on life of Olga Spessivtseva) to the music by Tchaikovsky, Bizet and Schnittke.
    2011 - "Roden. Her Eternal Idol" to music by Ravel, Saint-Saens, Massenet.
    2021 - “Passion according to Molière” to music by Mozart, Berlioz, Lully.
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    BALLETS BASED ON REAL LIFE

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    Apart from ballets based on Nijinsky’s life by Bèjart and Neumeier there were two more:

    “Nijinski” by Marco Goecke - Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

    “Nijinsky’ by Mikhail Lavrovsky - at Lavrovsky Gala

     

    You will laugh but there was even a dancing Lenin in the ballet production of "Falcons of the Revolution” by Bulat Ayukhanov in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2013. Other characters in that ballet were: Marx, Stalin, and the Kazakh President Nazarbayev!

    In one of the scenes Lenin inspires the workers to volunteer for unpaid work on weekends and himself carries a log.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Meo2E9qVgw

     

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