Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Anna Pavlova: Mega Brand Spokeswoman

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Recently, there has been a lot of buzz around ballerina Misty Copeland's recent sponsorship deal with the mega brand Dannon Oikos  yogu...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Composer Claude Debussy was born August 22, 1862.

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Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, the eldest of five children. His father, Manuel-Achille Debussy, owned a sho...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Premiere of Dying Swan-December 22, 1905

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The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo Le Cygne f...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Composer Riccardo Drigo Died Oct. 1, 1930

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Riccardo Drigo was an Italian composer of ballet music and Italian Opera, a theatrical conductor, and a pianist. Drigo is most noted for his...

Le Coq d'or Premiered Oct. 7, 1909 in Moscow as an Opera - It premiered as an Opera/Ballet in Paris in 1914.

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The ballet Le Coq d'or (The Golden Cockerel) was originally staged in 1914 in London and Paris, by Michel Fokine for Diaghilev's Bal...

Lydia Lopokova Birthday Oct. 21, 1892

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Lydia Lopokova was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on October 21, 1892. All of her siblings became ballet dancers, and one of them, Fyodor Lo...

Artist Picasso's Birthday Oct. 25, 1881

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Parade was Picasso’s first collaboration with the Ballets Russes and in a letter sent to a friend, Jean Cocteau the librettist said “Picas...