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| − | [[Image:Krasavitsa.jpg|thumb|275px|[[Carlotta Brianza]] and [[Paul Gerdt]] of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the ''[[The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|Sleeping Beauty]]''.]]
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| − | The '''Mariinsky Ballet''', affiliated with the [[Mariinsky Theatre]] in [[St Petersburg]], is one of the most famous [[ballet]] companies in history. The company was known as the '''Imperial Ballet''' until the early 20th century. Following the assassination of [[Sergei Kirov]], they were renamed '''Kirov Ballet''' but reverted to the original name after the fall of the Communism.
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| − | It was for this company that the great choreographer [[Marius Petipa]] staged quintessential works of classical ballet, notably the revisions of ''[[Giselle]]'', ''[[Swan Lake]]'', ''[[Le Corsaire]]'' and the original ballets ''[[Raymonda]]'', ''[[The Nutcracker]]'', ''[[La Bayadere]]'', ''[[Don Quixote (ballet)|Don Quixote]]'', ''[[Harlequinade (ballet)|Harlequinade]]'', and ''[[The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|The Sleeping Beauty]].'' Among the 20th-century ballets, ''[[Spartacus (ballet)|Spartacus]]'' was inaugurated there in 1956.
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| − | Following the [[October Revolution]] of 1917, the ballet master [[Agrippina Vaganova]] determined to continue the traditions and methods of the Russian Imperial Ballet. [[Vaganova method|Her method]] laid the groundwork for the formation and development of classical ballet in the world.
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| − | The [[choreography]] school of the Mariinsky Ballet, the '''Vaganova School''', named after its most celebrated teacher, [[Agrippina Vaganova]], prepared many of the greatest danseurs in history: [[Avdotia Istomina]], [[Paul Gerdt]], [[Olga Preobrajenska]], [[Mathilde Kschessinska]], [[Anna Pavlova]], [[Tamara Karsavina]], [[Mikhail Fokine]], [[Olga Spesivtseva]], [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], [[George Balanchine]], [[Lydia Lopokova]], [[Galina Ulanova]], [[Marina Semenova]], [[Konstantin Sergeyev]], [[Alla Shelest]], [[Alla Sizova]], [[Natalia Dudinskaya]], [[Yury Grigorovich]], [[Natalia Makarova]], [[Rudolf Nureyev]], [[Yuri Soloviev]], [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]], [[Irina Kolpakova]], and in modern times, [[Altynai Asylmuratova]], [[Diana Vishneva]], [[Uliana Lopatkina]], [[Svetlana Zakharova]], [[Adrian Fadeev]], [[Igor Kolb]], [[Daria Pavlenko]], [[Evgenia Obrazstova]].
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| − | During the [[Cold War]], however, the company faced the problem of some dancers refusing to return from Western countries they toured, while others were transferred by Soviet authorities to the [[Bolshoi Theatre]] in [[Moscow]]. In this way the company lost great dancers, such as Ulanova, Semenova, Nureyev, Makarova, and Baryshnikov.
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| − | * [http://www.vaganova.ru/eng.html Official site of the Vaganova Ballet Academy]
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| − | * [http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/ballet Site for the Mariinsky Ballet ]
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| − | * [http://www.for-ballet-lovers-only.com Additional Information/Pictures about the Mariinsky-Kirov Ballet]
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| − | * [http://www.kirov.com More information and interviews from the Kirov Ballet]
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