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The creation of the ballet Coppélia at Paris Opéra occurred. Also, a comic ballet originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter.
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The premiere of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s first ballet, Swan Lake, at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow happened. The scenario, initially in two acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette.
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The premiere of the ballet Excelsior at La Scala, Milan occurred. Marenco is best remembered for the ballet Excelsior, composed in 1881.
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Tamara Karsavina is born in St Petersburg. Known as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet. She was one of the greatest dancers of the Ballets Russes
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First performances of Alexander Borodin’s
Prince Igor, Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades
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George Balanchine is born on 22 January in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Balanchine becomes a member of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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Salon d’Automne exhibition opens in Paris, where ‘Fauvism’ is first defined. Diaghilev organizes his first exhibition of Russian art a year later here.
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Diaghilev returns to Paris for a second season, when Stravinsky’s first ballet, The Firebird, is presented. Firebird ballet was a story full of magic and love.
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Nijinsky choreographs L’Après-midi d’un faune. First performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. Nijinsky danced the foal point, mainly by himself.
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The Ballets Russes give 375 performances in Britain, including the premieres of La Boutique Fantasque (first premiered on Christmas Eve) and Le Tricorne, and three in Paris.
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Frederick Ashton choreographs A Tragedy of Fashion.a ballet which was first choreographed by him and the style of the ballet was influenced by the sophisticated productions of Sergei Diaghilev in the 1920s.
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Two new ballets premiere during the last season of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Le Bal and Les Fils Prodigue. Later, he dies in August at Venice.
