What is the second profession of the Mexican ballerina best known for the Tchaikovsky ballet that initially failed?
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Brenda Velez Brenda Vélez (born March 23, 1979) is a Mexican Ballerina and Architect. She is best known for performing in Swan Lake and in Giselle in Guadalajara's Teatro Degollado and owning VIA DANZA a dance academy in Guadalajara.
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Swan Lake Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое озеро /"Lebedinoye ozero"), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular of all ballets.
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Belén López (flamenco dancer) Ana Belén López Ruiz (born 1986) is a Spanish flamenco and classical dancer. The prestigious Berklee College of Music called her "one of the most passionate and roots-driven rising stars of flamenco dance." She is the Prima Ballerina of the Arena di Verona and Il Cambroio, and the muse of film director Franco Zeffirelli.
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Nicola Guerra Nicola Guerra (2 May 1865, Naples – 5 February 1942, Cernobbio aged 76) was an Italian dancer, choreographer and ballet master.
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Varvara Rudneva Varvara Kashevarova Rudneva (1844–1899), was a Russian physician. She was the second woman in Russia to be a doctor and to obtain a degree in medicine (1876), after Nadezhda Suslova. Her exam was thereby unique in Russia at the time and received much attention.
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Xiomara Reyes Xiomara Reyes is a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Born in Cuba, Reyes trained at the Cuban National Ballet School. After graduation, she danced as a soloist with "La Joven Guardia", an offshoot of Cuba's National Ballet. After two years, she was invited to perform with the Royal Ballet of Flanders in Belgium and danced with that company for seven years, rising to the rank of first soloist.
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Jorge Donn Jorge Donn (25 February 1947 in El Palomar, Buenos Aires – 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland), was an Argentine internationally known ballet dancer. He was best known for his work with the Maurice Béjart's "Ballet of the 20th Century". He died of AIDS on 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Ana Laguna Ana Laguna (born 1955) is a Spanish-Swedish ballet dancer, court dancer and professor. She has danced throughout the world with such legends as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov earning prizes for her performances from France, Italy, Monoco, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States.
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Tatiana Riabouchinska Tatiana Mikhailovna Riabouchinska (Russian: Татья́на Миха́йловна Рябуши́нская , Tatiana Mikhailovna Ryabushinskaya; 23 May 191724 August 2000) was a Russian American prima ballerina and teacher. Famous at age 14 as one of the three "Baby Ballerinas" of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the 1930s, she matured into an artist whom critics called "the most unusual dancer of her generation."
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List of productions of The Nutcracker Although the original 1892 Marius Petipa production was not a success, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" began to slowly enjoy worldwide popularity after Balanchine first staged his production of it in 1954. It may now be the most popular ballet in the world.
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Inna Zubkovskaya Inna Zubkovskaya (29 November 1923 – 5 February 2001) was a Russian ballerina. She was trained at the Bolshoi School and graduated in 1941. She immediately joined the Kirov Ballet where she remained until her retirement in 1970. According to Meisner, "her flawless technique, allied to a sensitive reticence, fitted the Maryinsky's elegant purity and they invited her to join". She was half-Jewish with an exceptional, dark-eyed beauty - earning the nickname the Black Pearl. She then became a teacher of the company until her death. She married twice: first to Nicolai Zubkovsky - whose name she kept for the stage - before divorcing him and marrying Sviatoslav Kusnetsov. Both her husbands were dancers. and her daughter, Katerina, and her son, Nikolai, both became dancers in the Maryinsky.
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Agrippina Vaganova Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova (Russian: Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова ; 26 June 1879 – 5 November 1951) was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method – the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old "Imperial Ballet School" (today the "Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet") under the "Premier Maître de Ballet" Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s. It was Vaganova who perfected and cultivated this form of teaching the art of classical ballet into a workable syllabus. Her "Fundamentals of the Classical Dance" (1934) remains a standard textbook for the instruction of ballet technique. Her technique is one of the most popular techniques today.
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Bella Ratchinskaia Bella Ratchinskaia (born in Vorkuta (Russia) on 22.11.1953) is a classical ballet choreographer and maÎtre de ballet. She attended and graduated with honours at the State Academy of Ballet in Perm. After her studies, she joined the USSR "All-Union Contest" for young dancers and moved to Leningrad (San Petersburg) where she started a classical dance career at the Theatre. In 1972 she began to work as a principal dancer in the company "Choreographical Miniatures" directed by Leonid Yakobson, she performed all roles of the classical repertory and Yakobson's own choreographical creations. She enjoyed critical acclaim during international tours for her interpretation of these roles.
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Miguel Terekhov Miguel Terekhov (August 22, 1928 – January 3, 2012) was a Uruguayan-born American ballet dancer and ballet instructor. Terekhov and his wife, Yvonne Chouteau, one of the Five Moons, a group of Native American ballet dancers, founded the School of Dance at the University of Oklahoma in 1961.
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Ileana Leonidoff Ileana Leonidoff (1893-after 1966) is a pseudonym for Elena Sergeevna Pisarevskaya (Russian: Елена Сергеевна Писаревская ) Russian-born emigrée who first made a career in Italy in silent films and then as a noted dancer and choreographer. She was the founder and lead dancer of the Dance School of Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. During World War II, she fled to South America first teaching in Argentina and then in Ecuador in 1950. She was the first director of the Ballet Oficial de Bolivia, then served as the director of the Guayaquil Ballet in Ecuador, and became the founder of the Ballet School of Trujillo, Peru. She was honored as a knight of the Order of the Condor of the Andes in 1953.
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Vicente Nebrada Vicente Nebrada (born Vicente Balbino Nebreda Arias, 31 March 1930 - 26 May 2002) was a Venezuelan dancer and choreographer. Born in Caracas, Nebrada began his career as a dancer with the National Ballet of Venezuela, Alicia Alonso's National Ballet of Cuba, with Roland Petit in Paris and with the Joffrey Ballet (1959). Nebrada was a founding member of the Harkness Ballet, where he created his first ballet "Percussion for Six Men," in 1969.
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Désirée Artôt Désirée Artôt (21 July 1835 – 3 April 1907) was a Belgian soprano (initially a mezzo-soprano), who was famed in German and Italian opera and sang mainly in Germany. In 1868 she was engaged, briefly, to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who may have coded her name into works such as his First Piano Concerto and the "Romeo and Juliet" Fantasy-Overture. After her 1869 marriage to the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos, she was known as Désirée Artôt de Padilla or Désirée Artôt-Padilla.
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Ballet Ballet (] ) is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology. It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres. Ballet has been taught in various schools around the world, which have historically incorporated their own cultures to evolve the art.
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Enrico Cecchetti Enrico Cecchetti (] ; 21 June 1850 in Rome – 13 November 1928 in Milan) was an Italian ballet dancer, mime, and founder of the Cecchetti method. The son of two dancers from Civitanova Marche, he was born in the costuming room of the "Teatro Tordinona" in Rome. After an illustrious career as a dancer in Europe, he went to dance for the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he further honed his skills. Cecchetti was praised for his agility and strength in his performances, as well as his technical abilities in dance. By 1888, he was widely accepted as the greatest ballet virtuoso in the world.
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Nicky Mondellini Nicky Mondellini (born Nicoletta Edna Mondellini Hammond on July 6, 1966 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian-born Mexican actress and professional ballerina.
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Sonia Osorio Sonia Osorio de Saint-Malo (25 March 1928 – 28 March 2011) was a Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer. During her long career she became an important folklorist and promoter of the arts and culture having worked closely with and for the Carnival of Barranquilla and having founded in 1960 the Colombia Ballet, a national ballet company that incorporates the native dances, styles and rhythms of Colombia.
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Vincenzo Celli Vincenzo Celli (4 May 1900 – 28 February 1988) was a noted Italian-American ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Celebrated as a performer and choreographer in Italy, he was renowned in America as a master teacher of the Cecchetti method of ballet training.