Manuel Legri "Stars in Blue" Ballet and Music

Manuel Legris is a French ballet dancer, born in Paris on October 10, 1964. He was a star dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet for 23 years. Since September 1, 2010, he has directed the Vienna State Ballet.

He started ballet lessons at the age of 8 under a local ballet teacher, Yvonne Guba. In 1976 at age 11, he started with the Paris Opera Ballet School and joined the Corps de Ballet at 16 years old in 1980. In 1981 he became "Coryphee", and was then promoted to "Sujet" in 1982. Exceptionally, Manuel Legris was appointed to the title "Etoile" on 11 July 1986, at age 21, by the Stage Director Rudolf Nureyev, bypassing the rank of "Premier Danseur." On that day, the company performed Raymonda, choreographed by Nureyev, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Legris danced the leading role of Jean de Brienne. At the end of the performance, he was named the principal dancer on the stage.

Silvia Azzoni (November 3, 1973 -) is a ballerina from Italy. She belongs to the Hamburg / Ballet team in Germany.
Born in the village of Turin, Italy in 1973. When she was 4-5 years old she began learning ballet at a local dance classroom and she got talent and moved to Turin's ballet school to receive formal ballet education. In teens teachers say "she can not teach anything anymore" and she can recommend studying in Germany. Just as her parents divorced and sent unstable everyday, she decided to study abroad. From her father, she was opposed to "she can not become a professional ballet dancer", but since she was accepted for the audition, she entered Hamburg · Ballet · School in 1991. she joined the Hamburg Ballet Company in 1993, promoted to Soloist in 1996 and Principal in 2001. she plays a lot of impressive heroines in John Neumeier's choreography such as "Romeo and Juliet" "Daphnis and Chloe". she won the Best Italian Dancer Award in 2004, Rolf de Mare prize in Princess Mermaid by Choreographer Noy May in 2007, and Benoître Award in the same work in 2008. she got married to a Ukrainian Alexandre Riabko at a colleague dancer of the Hamburg / Ballet Company, and I have one daughter.

she is also known as a senior citizen, and has been guesting in Japan for several times since his arrival in Japan in 2003.

Olga Vladimirovna Smirnova (Russian: Ольга Владимировна Смирнова ; born May 11, 1979 in Novocheboksarsk, Russian SFSR) is an amateur Russian-born Kazakhstani freestyle wrestler, who played for the women's lightweight category. She is a two-time Olympian, a three-time medalist at the European Senior Championships, and a gold medalist for the 50 kg class at the 1996 World Wrestling Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Smirnova also added a silver medal from the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, and bronze from the 2007 World Wrestling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, representing her adopted nation Kazakhstan.
Smirnova emerged as one of Russia's most prominent female wrestlers in its sporting history. She is a member of Yunost Rossii Wrestling Club in Almetyevsk, and is coached and trained by Nikolai Petrovich Belov, since she started competing in 1995.

In 1996, Smirnova had won her first ever career wrestling title for the 50 kg division at the World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, and also, added the bronze medal to her collection from the European Championships in Oslo, Norway. She continued to build success by capturing a total of three gold medals for the 54 kg class at the World and European Junior Championships. In the early 2000s Smirnova returned to the senior division, and eventually dominated the 51 kg class twice at the European Championships, defeating Sweden's Ida Hellström.

Smirnova became one of the first female wrestlers to mark their official debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She placed third in the preliminary pool of the women's 55 kg class, after losing out by a grand superiority (3–13) to Canada's Tonya Verbeek, and consequently, by a fall (2–5) to U.S. wrestler Tela O'Connell.

Shortly after the Olympics, Smirnova moved to Kazakhstan, where she obtained a dual citizenship in order to compete internationally for wrestling. She eventually won the silver medal in the women's 55 kg class at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, losing out to Japanese wrestler and world champion Saori Yoshida. Following her further success from the Asian Games, Smirnova captured two more medals from the Asian Championships, and also, won a bronze for the 59 kg division at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, which guaranteed her a spot for the Olympics.

Rugli Gala - Fate of Ballet Dancer ~" which opens in Osaka from August 19, 2017. When a pair of Olga Smirnois and Semyon Tujin appeared in this, when he came to Bolshoi and Ballet, he interviewed the interviews and responded to the interview. Two members with a sense of transparency that Rugoli himself claims to be "an ideal, excellent ballet dancer" danced the Nureyev version "Swan Lake" at the Vienna National Ballet Performance in May, and also in Bolshoi and Ballet performances Grigorowicz Show off the version of "Swan Lake". I fascinated the audience with a delicate world full of transparency. This time I heard about the program of "Lugri / Gala", enthusiasm for casting, impression of rugby and so on.

Ballet as a music form progressed from simply a complement to dance, to a concrete compositional form that often had as much value as the dance that went along with it. The dance form, originating in France during the 17th century, began as a theatrical dance. It was not until the 19th century that ballet gained status as a “classical” form. In ballet, the terms ‘classical’ and ‘romantic’ are chronologically reversed from musical usage. Thus, the 19th century classical period in ballet coincided with the 19th century Romantic era in Music. Ballet music composers from the 17th–19th centuries, including the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, were predominantly in France and Russia. Yet with the increased international notoriety seen in Tchaikovsky's lifetime, ballet music composition and ballet in general spread across the western world.

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• Tokyo Art Theater
  東京芸術劇場

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• The Symphony Hall
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