Little Humpbacked Horse - Under-water scene

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This is an excerpt from the so-called "Under-water scene" from Arthur Saint-Léon and composer Cesare Pugni's ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse", originally staged for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg in 1864. 1. Variation of the White Pearl (music: Cesare Pugni) 2. Variation of Two Red Corals (music: Cesare Pugni) 3. Variation of Ocean (music: Boris Asafiev) 4. Variation of the Blue Sea Flower (music: Ludwig Minkus- this solo also turns up in the so-called "Paquita Grand pas". It was originally danced by the ballerina Anna Johansson when she performed the title role in Petipa's revival of Perrot's "Ondine" in 1892. The ballerina Alla Sizova added it to "The Little Humpbacked Horse" in the 1950s, and it subsequently found its way into "Paquita".) -White Pearl: Zhanna Zinitsina -Red Corals: Tatiana Loginova & Elvira Loginova -Ocean: Vitaly Tsvestkov -Blue Sea Flower: Anna Polikarpova Marius Petipa revived "The Little Humpbacked Horse" in 1895 for the 'Prima ballerina assoluta' Pierina Legnani, and in 1901 Alexander Gorsky staged a revival of the work for the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow. In 1912 Gorsky staged his version for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg, and the company retained the work by way of several revivals staged throughout the Soviet-era, leaving the work a pale shadow of the grand spectacle it once was. Eventually "The Little Humpbacked Horse" was relegated only to occasional performances by the Vaganova School. Thier production was filmed in 1989, which was one of the last times the school has performed the ballet to date. --ENJOY!!

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