Divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fee: Ghost stories

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The George Balanchine Foundation has contributed to the tracking of the ghosts in Balanchine's `Divermento from Le Baiser de la Fee' created in 1972, with additions made in 1974. Balanchine first made a real, full Baiser for the American Ballet in 1937, on `The Ice Maiden', and later on, he reconstructed and choreographed several ballets, mixing conventional modes of ballet delivery in a modernist/postmodernist strategy.

Balanchine, George, Ballet dancing, Divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fee (Ballet)

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Antoinette Sibley and Michael Somes on "Daphnis and Chloe"

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Antoinette Sibley, who danced the role of Chloe in "Daphnis and Chloe," believes the music and the choreography of the ballet carries the dancer like few other ballets. Michael Somes, who danced the role of Daphnis, believes the dance is an exacting and dramatic work. The ballet is about two lovers separated by invading pirates. Somes and Margot Fonteyn danced in the original performance.

Interview, Fonteyn, Margot, Somes, Michael, Daphnis and Chloe (Ballet), Sibley, Antoinette

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Ashton and Macmillan in fairyland: Contrasting styles in Le Baiser De La Fee

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Frederick Ashton's first ballet as resident choreographer in 1935, Igor Stravinsky's Le Baiser de la Fee, is analyzed. Ashton celebrates ballet steps and dancing using steps quite different from their classroom equivalents whereas MacMillan rejoices in character portrayal by unconventional ballet movement and focuses on the human qualities in the dance.

Analysis, Ballets, Ashton, Frederick, Le Baiser de la Fee (Ballet), MacMillan, Kenneth

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