7/7 Gala - The Little Humpbacked Horse - Under-water scene (2/2)

Part 7/7 from Yuri Burlaka's marvelous gala "The Golden Age of the Russian Imperial Ballet" ("Золотой век русского императорского балета") staged for the Chelyabinsk State Ballet. Performed at the Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera & Ballet Theatre of M.I. Glinka on December 24, 2008.


**If anyone knows the cast of this performance please contact me!



**See clip 1/2 for extensive notes on the history of "The Little Humpbacked Horse"


--Choreography after Alexander Gorsky (1912) , Marius Petipa (1895) & Arthur Saint-Léon (1864)
--Music by Cesare Pugni, Riccardo Drigo & Boris Asafiev


This divertissement is extracted from the so-called "Under-Water Scene" of Arthur Saint-Léon's 1864 ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse". It takes place during Act IV/Scene 1, when the protaganists Ivanushka & the Humpbacked Horse travel to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in order to search for the Tsar Maiden's lost ring.


**Music by Cesare Pugni, unless otherwise noted -
1. "The Ocean & the Pearls" pas de trois (Riccardo Drigo, taken from his score for Petipa's 1896 "La Perle", a ballet created for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II & Empress Alexandra Fyodorvna)
--a. Adage
--b. Variation of the Ocean Genie
--c. Danse of the Pearls
--d. Gallop
2. Dance of the corps de ballet (Boris Asafiev. From a supplemental Pas de six he wrote for the ballet in 1920s)
3. Dance of two Red corals (Boris Asafiev)
4. Under-Water Bacchanalia

--Enjoy!!

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[cubanmiamiboy]

Hi Mr. Lopez. Do you know if the variation of the Ocean Genie was created specifically for this ballet or taken from a previous work...? For some reason I also always thought that this was a later addition by Asafiev.

[mrlopez2681]

@cubanmiamiboy - the "ocean genie" variation is actually extracted from a pas de six that was written by Asafiev for a late 1910's revival of "Horse". I have the pas de six in a piano reduction.

[MsNatalle]

Чудо!

[palubob]

A total delight!

[mattslourenco]

amazing

[jgh37]

Beautiful.