St Petersburg, Mariinsky Theatre

Le Carnaval
 Le Spectre de la rose
 The Swan
 Schéhérazade 


miniature set to music by Camille Saint-Saëns

Marking 145 years since the birth of Anna Pavlova
Marking 160 years since the birth of Léon Bakst

Marking 115 years since the world premiere of ballet Shéhérazade

Performers

Premiere: 22 December 1907, Mariinsky Theatre


Running time: 4 minutes

Age category 12+

Credits

Music by Camille Saint-Saëns
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1907)


... Our joint work (with Anna Pavlova) was The Dying Swan. It took just a few minutes to create the ballet. It was amost an improvisation. I danced in front of her, she was there, just behind me. (... ) Before that production I had been accused of being involved in ‘barefoot’ dancing and was generally opposed to dancing en pointe. The Dying Swan was my response to this criticism. This dance became a symbol of new Russian ballet. It was a serious work of perfect technique and expression. It was like a kind of proof that dance can and should not just please the eyes but also get into the soul. Michel Fokine. Highlights from Memoirs of a Ballet-Master


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