About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: La Bayadere, Swan Lake, Le corsaire, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, The Talisman, Don Quixote, Giselle, The Pharaoh's Daughter, Coppelia, Paquita, The Seasons, Tsar Kandavl or Le Roi Candaule, The Awakening of Flora or Le Reveil de Flore, Raymonda, The Little Humpbacked Horse, Cinderella, Les Millions d'Arlequin, The King's Command or The Pupils of Dupre, The Whims of the Butterfly, Kalkabrino, Night and Day, The Two Stars, Le Papillon, Les Aventures de Pelee, Mlada, La Rose, la violette et le papillon, The Parisian Market or Le Marche des Innocents, Camargo, The Traveling Dancer, The Sacrifices to Cupid, Trilby, The Daughter of the Snows, Frizak the Barber, The Blue Dahlia, Roxana, the Beauty of Montenegro, A Fairy Tale, The Beauty of Lebanon or The Mountain Spirit, Zoraiya, The Bandits, L'Etoile de Grenade, Florida, Terpsichore, The Vestal, The Magic Pills, A Marriage During the Regency, Nenuphar, Pygmalion, ou La Statue de Chypre, The Slave, The Benevolent Cupid, Titania. Excerpt: La Bayadere (The Temple Dancer) (Russian: translates to English as Bayaderka) is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by the choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. La Bayadere was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 4 February 1877. A scene from the ballet, known as The Kingdom of the Shades, is one of the most celebrated excerpts in all of classical ballet, and is considered to be one of the first examples of abstract ballet. La Bayadere has been restaged and revived many times throughout its long performance history, most notably by Marius Petipa in 1900, for the Imperial Ballet; Alexander Gorsky and Vasily Tikhomirov in 1904 for the Bolshoi Theatre; Agrippina Vaganova in 1932 for the Kirov Ballet; Vakhtang Chabu...
