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unusual facts about Marius Petipa


Nikolai Radin

Nikolai Radin is a grandson of the famous choreographer Marius Petipa.


Anna Grabka

She danced solo and principal roles in ballets by Friderick Ashton, George Balanchine, Maurice Béjart, August Bournonville, Jean Coralli/Jules Perrot, John Cranko, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Kevin Haigen, Leonid Jacobson, Jiri Kilian, Serge Lifar, José Limón, Asaf Messerer, John Neumeier and Marius Petipa.

Ivan Vsevolozhsky

In 1889, he duly instructed the Imperial Balletmaster Marius Petipa to choreograph a full-length ballet to the story La Belle au Bois Dormant, or The Sleeping Beauty for a premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov

Marius Petipa revived the ballet in 1895 as The Tsar Maiden for the Ballerina Pierina Legnani.

Tatiana Stepanova

Inside the choreographic work of Tatiana Stepanova emphasizes its Diptych of Ashiya, formed by Suite of works of Marius Petipa, that she reordena of magisterial form, reinterpreting the pieces and managing to join its steps with the of the master one galoruso, in an inverse osmosis, where is dificil to distinguish the parts of the two choreographers.

Violetta Elvin

Elvin was only 20 when she had already danced the leads in Swan Lake, Marius Petipa's Don Quixote and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai with the State Ballet of Tashkent.


see also

Bayadere

La Bayadère, a ballet by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus

Glossary of ballet

Two famous examples are the Grand Pas created by Marius Petipa in 1881 for his revival of Joseph Mazilier's ballet Paquita, known today as the Paquita Grand Pas Classique, and the one just called Grand pas classique, choreographed by Victor Gsovsky with music by Daniel Auber, derived from the opera-ballet Le Dieu et La Bayadere.