Marius Petipa`s seminal work La Bayadère, was first performed at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1877 in a grandiose production. When Bayadère Nikiya – a temple dancer – and ...

The atmosphere at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, must have been electric on Feb. 4, 1877. That was the day Austrian composer Ludwig Minkus premiered "La Bayadere" — ...

The worst moment in the generally fine Universal Ballet production of “La Bayadere” is the moment the audience wants most to see: the celebrated entrance of 32 women, one by one, down a ramp at the ...

First performed in St Petersburg in 1877, Marius Petipa’s La Bayadere is a grand Imperial classic set to broadly danceable tunes by Ludwig Minkus. The extravagant tale of an Indian temple dancer’s ...

THE GREAT classical ballet La Bayadere has gone through many changes since its premiere in St Petersburg in 1877. In the last few years, several productions have attempted to get closer to the ...

It’s been 15 years since the Bolshoi Ballet looked like one of the world’s great companies, and its under-rehearsed, under-powered and strangely underpopulated “La Bayadere” at the Orange County ...

Clive Barnes once suggested that if you don't enjoy La Bayadère, you don't really enjoy ballet. Thelate dance critic was referring to the famousKingdom of the Shadesscene, in which a line of ...

At the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center. Season runs through July 20; (212) 721-6500. TRADITION ahoy! That seems to be the battle cry of St. Petersburg’s prestigious Kirov Ballet, which opened ...

This Wednesday evening, the Joffrey Ballet opened the curtain on a magnificent revival of La Bayadère, a classic work that was given new life by Stanton Welch of the Houston Ballet in 2010 before the ...

La Bayadère is the kind of ballet where infidelity is punished by the gods dropping a temple on the hero. The setting is a fantasy India, full of lush forests, gilded palaces and vistas that look like ...