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418. Tempo di Valse: Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty 1981
- Music
Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (as given below)
- Choreography
George Balanchine (two of five parts), Jacques d’Amboise, and John Taras
- Production
Costumes for GARLAND DANCE by Karinska (from DIAMONDS in Jewels [358] and Chaconne [400]) and Rouben Ter-Arutunian (from Coppélia [387])
- Premiere
June 9, 1981, New York City Ballet with students from the School of American Ballet, New York State Theater. Conductor: Robert Irving
- Cast
GARLAND DANCE from The Sleeping Beauty, Act I (produced 1890): 25 women, 16 men, 16 young girls
Performance Type
Ballet
See Also
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65. Aurora's Wedding. Ariadne and Her Brothers,
225. Pas de Deux (Grand Adagio),
259. Princess Aurora,
281. The Sleeping Beauty. Variation from Aurora's Wedding,
404. The Sleeping Beauty. Aurora's Solo, Vision Scene
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.)
281. The Sleeping Beauty: Variation from Aurora's Wedding 1951
- Choreography
George Balanchine
Performance Type
Ballet
See Also
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65. Aurora's Wedding. Ariadne and Her Brothers,
225. Pas de Deux (Grand Adagio),
259. Princess Aurora,
404. The Sleeping Beauty. Aurora's Solo, Vision Scene,
418. Tempo di Valse. Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty
Note
In the summer of 1951, at Jacob’s Pillow, Diana Adams performed a variation from Aurora’s Wedding (divertissements from Act III of The Sleeping Beauty [Tchaikovsky]), with choreography credited to Balanchine.
259. Princess Aurora 1949
- Music
Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty, produced 1890, most from Act III)
- Choreography
Originally choreographed by Marius Petipa; staged and adapted by George Balanchine. Choreography of the THREE IVANS by Bronislava Nijinska
- Production
Scenery by Michel Baronoff and costumes by Barbara Karinska after designs by Léon Bakst (1921)
- Premiere
April 2, 1949, Ballet Theatre, Opera House, Chicago. Conductor: Max Goberman
- Cast
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
See Also
-
65. Aurora's Wedding. Ariadne and Her Brothers,
225. Pas de Deux (Grand Adagio),
281. The Sleeping Beauty. Variation from Aurora's Wedding,
404. The Sleeping Beauty. Aurora's Solo, Vision Scene,
418. Tempo di Valse. Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty
Note
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
225. Pas de Deux (Grand Adagio) 1945
- Music
Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (entr’acte from The Sleeping Beauty, 1890, orchestrated by Ivan Boutnikoff)
- Choreography
George Balanchine
- Premiere
March 14, 1945, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, City Center of Music and Drama, New York. Conductor: Emanuel Balaban
- Cast
Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin
Performance Type
Ballet
See Also
-
65. Aurora's Wedding. Ariadne and Her Brothers,
259. Princess Aurora,
281. The Sleeping Beauty. Variation from Aurora's Wedding,
302. The Nutcracker,
404. The Sleeping Beauty. Aurora's Solo, Vision Scene,
418. Tempo di Valse. Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty
Note
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
65. Aurora's Wedding: Ariadne and Her Brothers 1927
- Choreography
George Balanchine
Performance Type
Ballet
See Also
-
225. Pas de Deux (Grand Adagio),
259. Princess Aurora,
281. The Sleeping Beauty. Variation from Aurora's Wedding,
404. The Sleeping Beauty. Aurora's Solo, Vision Scene,
418. Tempo di Valse. Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty
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