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Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (as given below)
George Balanchine (two of five parts), Jacques d’Amboise, and John Taras
Costumes for GARLAND DANCE by Karinska (from DIAMONDS in Jewels [358] and Chaconne [400]) and Rouben Ter-Arutunian (from Coppélia [387])
June 9, 1981, New York City Ballet with students from the School of American Ballet, New York State Theater. Conductor: Robert Irving
GARLAND DANCE from The Sleeping Beauty, Act I (produced 1890): 25 women, 16 men, 16 young girls
Performance Type
Ballet
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Note
Included in the Tchaikovsky Festival. Sixteen couples dance, each couple holding aloft a garland of flowers in the form of an arch; a chain of little girls enters, weaving under the garlands, and is joined by nine older girls. In addition to the GARLAND DANCE, the short works presented under the general title Tempo di Valse during the Tchaikovsky Festival (and later in the season) were the WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS from The Nutcracker [302] by Balanchine, VALSE-SCHERZO by d’Amboise, and VARIATION VI FROM TRIO IN A MINOR and WALTZ FROM EUGENE ONEGIN, ACT II by Taras. (See FESTIVALS DIRECTED BY BALANCHINE.)
Additional Productions
Stagings

2003   Suzanne Farrell Ballet

Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (produced 1890)
After the choreography of Marius Petipa. Choreography for the GARLAND DANCE by Michael Vernon. Choreography for Aurora’s solo in the VISION SCENE by George Balanchine.
Staged and directed by André Eglevsky. Scenery and costumes by Peter Farmer
April 14, 1977, The Eglevsky Ballet, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Princess Aurora, Patricia McBride; Prince, Peter Schaufuss; Lilac Fairy, Leslie Peck; corps de ballet
Performance Type
Ballet
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Source Notes

Information corroborated by Patricia McBride

Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty, produced 1890, most from Act III)
Originally choreographed by Marius Petipa; staged and adapted by George Balanchine. Choreography of the THREE IVANS by Bronislava Nijinska
Scenery by Michel Baronoff and costumes by Barbara Karinska after designs by Léon Bakst (1921)
April 2, 1949, Ballet Theatre, Opera House, Chicago. Conductor: Max Goberman
Princess Aurora, Nana Gollner; Prince Charming, John Kriza; The Queen, Charlyne Baker; The King, Peter Rudley; Master of Ceremonies, Edward Caton; Six Fairies, Lillian Lanese, Janet Reed, Dorothy Scott, Ruth Ann Koesun, Diana Adams, Mary Burr (the first five danced VARIATIONS I-V); 6 Attendants; PAS DE TROIS: Norma Vance, Jocelyn Vollmar, Wallace Seibert; BLUEBIRD AND THE PRINCESS: Maria Tallchief, Igor Youskevitch; THREE IVANS: Eric Braun, Fernand Nault, Nicolas Orloff; 4 Pages; Ensemble, 4 women, 4 men
Performance Type
Ballet
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The printed program indicates that this selection of excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty included the FAIRY VARIATIONS from the PROLOGUE and divertissements from Act III. Balanchine staged Petipa’s choreography of the BLUEBIRD pas de deux, but altered much of the rest. A duet (presumably for two fairies, which would have given each of the six Fairies a variation) is mentioned in a review by Lillian Moore (Dancing Times, June 1949, p. 497); printed programs list only five solo variations.
Additional Productions
Revisions
1950, Ballet Theatre: One, later two, FAIRY VARIATIONS omitted.
Source Notes

Balanchine, Maria Tallchief

Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (entr’acte from The Sleeping Beauty, 1890, orchestrated by Ivan Boutnikoff)
George Balanchine
March 14, 1945, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, City Center of Music and Drama, New York. Conductor: Emanuel Balaban
Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin
Performance Type
Ballet
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In 1955, Balanchine interpolated this music in its original form as a violin cadenza into Act I of his production of The Nutcracker for the New York City Ballet.
Source Notes

Additional music information provided by Balanchine, Gordon Boelzner

George Balanchine
Performance Type
Ballet
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Note
In 1926 or 1927 Balanchine replaced the pas de trois for a man and two women in Aurora’s Wedding (divertissements from Act III of Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty [Tchaikovsky]) known as ‘Florestan and His Sisters’ with a pas de trois for a woman and two men called ‘Ariadne and Her Brothers.’ The earliest program found is for the January 10, 1927, performance of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at La Scala, Milan. Throughout his tenure as ballet master to Diaghilev, Balanchine made frequent adjustments to repertory pieces, from minor alterations to entire new variations; most of these changes are not noted on printed programs. During the frequent periods between the seasons of the Ballets Russes, Balanchine is also known to have created choreography for productions in provincial opera houses in France; these are no longer possible to document.
Source Notes

Alicia Markova