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Academy of Russian Ballet Carnival of the Animals and Les Sylphides

Carnival of the Animals 
Music: Camille Saint- Saëns Choreography: Svetlana Gavrilova and Kirill Bak

This ever-popular musical work by Camille Saint-Saëns is now enhanced with dance steps in a new and thoroughly entertaining Ballet. The Carnival has never been so alive!
The animals are having a carnival. There’s the majestic lion, the braying mules, the dancing elephant, and the bouncy kangaroos. Even the fossils invited! With following most famous Dying Swan choreographed by Michael Fokin for Anna Pavlova.
A timeless children’s classic Carnival of the Animals Is clever, charming and musically sophisticated.

 

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Chopin Les Sylphides (Chopiniana)
Music:  Frédéric Chopin Choreography: Michel Fokine

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Originally entitled Chopiniana, this ballet was first  premiered in St. Petersburg in 1907  at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg
Restructured and presented in the first 1909 Ballets Russes season in Paris under Diaghilev’s title, Les Sylphides, Fokine created this dance suite unifying music and movement in an implied drama of Romanticism. Les Sylphides is famous as the first “abstract” classical ballet without narrative structure or defined characters.

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