The Traveling Dancer

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La Prima Ballerina, ou L'embuscade or The Traveling Dancer (aka La Danseuse en voyage) is a ballet (choreographic episode) in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by Paul Taglioni.

First presented by the Imperial Ballet on November 4/16 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1864 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal Dancers - Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as the Prima Ballerina), and Timofei Stukolkin (as Rinaldo)

[edit] Revivals/Restagings

  • Revival by Lev Ivanov for the Imperial Ballet, with the composer/conductor Riccardo Drigo editing and making additions to Cesare Pugni's original score. First presented on July 26/August 7 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1893 for the Imperial court at the theatre of Krasnoe Selo. St. Petersburg, Russia.

[edit] Notes

  • A variation from this ballet—composed by Petipa in 1905 for the Prima Ballerina Olga Preobrajenskaya—was the last choreography Petipa ever created (as noted in his Diaries).