La Bayadère, a ballet by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus
In order to restore Petipa's original choreography, Sergei Vikharev, the Balletmaster of the company in charge of staging the production, made use of the Stepanov Choreographic Notation from the Sergeyev Collection.
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Makarova’s production premiered on May 21, 1980 at the Metropolitan Opera House, and was shown live on PBS during the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast.
Bolle’s Spring 2010 American Ballet Theater performances include The Lady of the Camellias, Swan Lake, La Bayadère, and Romeo and Juliet.
Vladimir Ponomaryov (choreographer) (1892-1951), Soviet choreographer known for staging La Bayadère in 1941 for Kirov Ballet
Yevgeni Ponomaryov (costume designer), Russian ballet costume designer who designed costumes for many ballets, including The Seasons and La Bayadère
Stix-Brunell trained at the School of American Ballet from 2000 to 2005, when she was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de l'Opera de Paris where she danced in the Demonstrations de l'Ecole de Danse, Serge Lifar's Entre deux Rondes and Rudolf Nureyev's La Bayadère with the Paris Opera Ballet.
Leading roles created for Walsh include Stanton Welch's ballet Marie (February 2009), Welch's new staging of La Bayadère (February 2010), and Jorma Elo's ballet ONE/end/ONE (May 2011).
Another occurs in the first act of the Petipa/Minkus ballet La Bayadère, in which the temple dancer Nikiya makes her entrance during the Festival of Fire.
She danced many major roles of the classical repertory, including Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Nikiya in La Bayadere, Kitri in Don Quixote, the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty and the title role of La Esmeralda.
In 1947 Gusev choreographed a new version of the Variation de Gamzatti from the 1877 Petipa/Minkus ballet La Bayadère for Natalia Dudinskaya.
He joined the American Ballet Theatre in 1988, where he danced roles such as Birbanto and Lankendem in Le Corsaire, Lead Gypsy in Don Quixote, Head Fakir in La Bayadere, Dr. Coppelius in Coppelia, and an Ugly Stepsister in Ben Stevenson's Cinderella.