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Petipa
[ pet-ee-pah, pet-ee-pah; French puh-tee-pah ]
noun
- 惭补谤路颈路耻蝉 [mair, -ee-, uh, s, mar, -, m, a, -, ryys], 1819鈥1910, French ballet dancer and choreographer in Russia.
Petipa
/ 辫蓹迟颈辫补 /
noun
- PetipaMarius18191910MFrenchDANCE: ballet dancerDANCE: choreographer Marius. 1819鈥1910, French ballet dancer and choreographer of the Russian imperial ballet: collaborated with Tchaikovsky on The Sleeping Beauty (1890)
Example Sentences
He will stage a suite of dances from Petipa鈥檚 full-length 鈥淧aquita鈥 that incorporates the 鈥淢inkus Pas de Trois,鈥 Balanchine鈥檚 restaging of the ballet鈥檚 pas de trois.
The scene is from Marius Petipa鈥檚 鈥淟a Bayad猫re,鈥 a ballet that premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1877.
But the video suggested that the company was still using some of his choreography, though his name had been removed from the production, a version of the 19th-century ballet by Marius Petipa.
Her work deploys physical ideas and images from Petipa, Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Nijinsky and more, but shifts lightly among them.
So Petipa, working for the man with a direct line to the czar, was under a little pressure.
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