309. Pas de Dix 1955 | The George Balanchine Foundation

309. Pas de Dix 1955

Alexander Glazounov (Raymonda, excerpts from Act III, Op. 57, produced 1898)

George Balanchine, after Marius Petipa

Costumes by Esteban Francés. Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

November 9, 1955, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama, New York. Conductor: Leon Barzin

Maria Tallchief, André Eglevsky; Barbara Fallis, Constance Garfield, Jane Mason, Barbara Walczak, Shaun O’Brien, Roy Tobias, Roland Vazquez, Jonathan Watts

Performance Type

Ballet

See Also

Video Archives Recording

George Balanchine Interpreters Archive (ballerina solo, excerpts from finale), 1996; George Balanchine Archive of Lost Choreography (ballerina solo), 2000

Note

Using much of the same music as the PAS CLASSIQUE HONGROIS from Act III of Raymonda [233], the work is composed of solos, two pas de deux, a duet for two women, and a quartet for four men, concluding with bravura measures for the ballerina. Some of the choreography corresponds closely to the Stepanov notation of Petipa’s Raymonda (made some years after the ballet’s premiere); much is new. In 1960, for the San Francisco Ballet’s Variations de Ballet, parts of Pas de Dix were combined with choreography by Lew Christensen to Glazounov’s suite Scènes de Ballet, Op. 52 (revised 1981).

Additional Productions

Revisions

Stagings

1958   Eglevsky Ballet Company
1960   Joffrey Ballet
1960   San Francisco Ballet (as part of Christensen’s Variations de Ballet)
1961   New England Civic (in 1964 became Boston Ballet)
1962   Ballett der Hamburgischen Staatsoper (Hamburg, Germany)
1962   Eglevsky Ballet Company
1962   Royal Winnipeg Ballet
1963   Paris Opera Ballet
1963   Pennsylvania Ballet
1964   Dutch National Ballet
1965   Ballet of Los Angeles
1965   Ballett der Buhnen Stadt Koln (Cologne)
1966   Den Norske Opera [Ballet] (Norway)
1967   Joffrey Ballet
1968   Huntington Dance Ensemble (Long Island, New York; later became P. A. F. [Performing Arts Foundation] Dance Ensemble; disbanded)
1969   Houston Ballet
1970   Dance Repertory Company (New York City; disbanded)
1972   Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
1973   Ballet West
1974   Los Angeles Ballet
1974   Royal New Zealand Ballet
1975   Cincinnati Ballet
1975   Milwaukee Ballet
1975   Stars of American Ballet (disbanded)
1976   Arizona Ballet Theatre (disbanded
1976   Dallas Ballet
1976   National Ballet Academy (later became National Ballet of Illinois; disbanded)
1976   Pacific Northwest Ballet
1977   Louisville Ballet
1977   Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet (in 1980 separated from Chicago Lyric Opera to form Chicago City Ballet [disbanded])
1978   Garden State Ballet (New Jersey)
1978   Philippine Ballet Theatre
1979   American Festival Ballet (Ballet Folk Company)
1980   Makarova and Company
1980   New Jersey Ballet
1981   Kansas City Ballet
1982   Mesa Civic Ballet (Arizona)
1982   North Carolina Dance Theatre
1982   Tulsa Ballet Theatre
1983   Kansas City Ballet
1983   Royal New Zealand Ballet
1985   Aterballetto-Centro Regionale della Danza (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
1987   Miami City Ballet
1988   Miami City Ballet
1988   Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
1988   Universal Ballet Company (Korea)
1989   NAPAC Ballet (Natal Performing Arts Council—Durban, South Africa)
1992   NAPAC Ballet (Natal Performing Arts Council—Durban, South Africa)
1994   Memphis Concert Ballet
1994   Miami City Ballet
1995   Ballet Austin
1995   Royal Winnipeg Ballet
1996   Miami City Ballet
2003   Banff Center (Alberta, Canada)
2007   Kansas City Ballet
2013   Suzanne Farrell Ballet, The

Recorded Performances

Videos/DVD

2003, VAI, The Art of Maria Tallchief (excerpts [1957]);
2014 Video Artists International, New York City Ballet in Montreal, Vol. 2 (complete recorded 1957)

Television

1957 (CBC [Montreal], L’Heure du Concert)

Source Notes

Additional revisions information provided by Arlene Croce; Stepanov information provided by Doug Fullington