PREMIERE OF 'PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER' -Grand pas des chasseresses

Here is a clip of the 'Grand pas des chasseresses' taken from the premiere of the Bolshoi Ballet's revival of the Marius Petipa and Cesare Pugni's 1862 grand ballet "The Pharaoh's Daughter", staged by Pierre Lacotte. The premiere of the revival featured the great Nina Ananiashvili as the Princess Aspicia. Filmed May 5, 2000.

Grand pas des chasseresses -
1. Entrée
2. Pas de flèche

It must be noted that the choreography does not contain one step of Petipa, and Pugni's music is presented in a re-orchestration.

Unfortunately Lacotte did not want to reconstruct Petipa's choreography, which was notated not long after his final revival of 1898 in the Stepanov method of dance notation and is now included in the Sergeyev Collection @ Harvard Univeristy's theatre library. The notations are rather vague for the most part, but they do include enough detail to reconstruct the principal roles and some of the corps de ballet's movements.

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[palubob]

It is interesting to note that they, presumably Lacotte, made some changes here and there in the time between this performance and the one that was filmed for DVD in 2003.

[mrlopez2681]

you are correct ()I though that I was the only one in the world who noticed!). They have also done an absolutely terrible re-orchestration of Pugni's score.

[SaxonBiggy]

It's a shame that they cut most of this Entr'acte music from the DVD as I believe this to be some of the best music in the score - particularly this introduction to the Hunters. I also agree about the atrocious arrangement of the score. I heard that they did this because they only had a piano score available to them. Who arranged it?