Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center to Conclude Season With SWAN LAKE 6/7-10

The 9^th season of Gloyra Kaufman presents Dance at the Music Center season will conclude with Bolshoi Ballet's "Swan Lake" choreographed by Yuri Griorovich after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and Alexander Gorsky, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with LA Opera Orchestra,at the Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for five performances only June 7-10, 2012.
 
The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales. It tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.  The ballet received its premiere in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as "The Lake of the Swans." Although "Swan Lake" is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the 1895 revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, first staged for the Imperial Ballet on January 15, 1895 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
 
In 1776, Prince Pyotr Urusov and English entrepreneur Michael Maddox founded the Bolshoi in Moscow.  From this date, the history of the Bolshoi Theatre started: the first permanent company and the first professional music theater that in the ensuing years acquired the status of the main stage of the country.  At this stage, the ballet company was comprised of just 47 dancers. Alexander Gorsky was at the head of the Bolshoi Ballet in the first quarter of the 20th century. His choreographic ideas, reflecting the spirit of the time, brought about a new rise of popularity for the Bolshoi Theatre. The history of these years includes experiments by Kasyan Goleizovsky, who augmented the development of the Russian ballet, while from 1930s till the middle of 1950s, drama ballets prevailed.  Both "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai" by Rostislav Zakharov, and "Romeo and Juliet" by Leonid Lavrovsky, were brought from Leningrad. Yuri Grigorovich's directorship marked a new rise of the Bolshoi style.  From Leningrad. he brought his innovative productions and created new versions of classical ballets ("Spartacus and" "Ivan The Terrible").

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