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  • Allegro Brillante (2016)
  • Video | 15 min | Short, Music
Allegro Brillante (2016)
Video | 15 min | Short, Music

One of George Balanchine's most joyous, pure dance pieces, Allegro Brillante is characterized by what Maria Tallchief - the ballerina on whom the bravura leading role was created - called "an expansive Russian romanticism." The ballet is ...See moreOne of George Balanchine's most joyous, pure dance pieces, Allegro Brillante is characterized by what Maria Tallchief - the ballerina on whom the bravura leading role was created - called "an expansive Russian romanticism." The ballet is set to Tschaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 3, a work that the composer created from sketches for a composition that was intended to be his Sixth Symphony, but which instead served as a single movement work which was published posthumously in 1894. Balanchine described this ballet as a concentrated essay in the extended classical vocabulary, in which a maximum amount of choreographic development is contained within a rather restricted area of time and space. Written by New York City Ballet See less
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (as Peter Tchaikovsky)
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Apr 10, 2016 (Germany)

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