Russe Classique
Cast List
Please note this cast list is incomplete and I’ll be working on it again Saturday Feb. 3rd
Cast List
Les Sylphides (Chopinanna)
The Poet(s)
Poet Boys
Jeremiah Meschke
Holden Walls
Nathan Meschke
Owen Walls
Soloist
Melissa Grant
Christa Bosserman-Wolfe
Annie Couch
Elena Otteson
Thais Otteson
Demi Soloist
Angela Woolley
Darla Doolittle
Shirley Liu
Christie Wright
Corp de ballet
Abby Heimowitz
Julia Zwahlen
Malia Marshall
Andrea Rempel
Kirby Meschke
Emma Luedermann
Dimitra Protopapas
Annie Marshall
Marissa Levy
Sarah Docken
Olivia Pearson
Creative Movement students
Students in creative movement class will be bugs and flowers in Les Sylphides 1st and/or goblins
in Firebird
Pre-ballet Students
All students participating from our pre ballet classes will 1st be Golden Apples in Firebird. Our
secondary part will be bugs or flowers in Les Sylphides.
Basic Ballet students
All students participating from our Basic ballet classes will first be in Les Sylphides, second
costume participates will then be in Firebird as Kashchei’s goblin creatures.
Beginning Ballet Students
All students participating from our Beginning ballet classes will first be in Les Sylphides, second
costume participates will then be in Firebird as Kashchei’s goblin creatures.
Firebird
The ballet centers on the journey
enters the magical realm
the magical objects and creatures
represented by
usually in the strings. While
and chases the Firebird. The
begs for its life and ultimately
for eventual freedom.
of its hero, Prince Ivan. Ivan
of Kashchei the Immortal; all of
of Kashchei are herein
a chromatic descending motif,
wandering in the gardens, he sees
Firebird, once caught by Ivan,
agrees to assist Ivan in exchange
Prince Ivan then sees thirteen
princesses, he confronts Kashchei
to ask to marry one of the
princesses; the two talk and
eventually begin quarreling. When
Kashchei sends his magical
creatures after Ivan, the Firebird, true to its pledge, intervenes; bewitching the creatures and making them
dance an elaborate, energetic dance (the "Infernal Dance"). The creatures and Kashchei then fall asleep;
however, Kashchei awakens and is then sent into another dance by the Firebird. While Kashchei is
bewitched, the Firebird tells Ivan the secret to Kashchei's immortality – his soul is contained inside an
enormous, magical egg. Ivan destroys the egg, killing Kashchei. With Kashchei gone and his spell
broken, the magical creatures and the palace all disappear. All of the "real" beings, including the
princesses, awaken and with one final hint of the Firebird's music (though in Fokine's choreography she
makes no appearance in that final scene on-stage), celebrate their victory.
Characters
Prince Ivan ~ Keith Walls
The Firebird ~ Melissa Grant
The Princesses ~ Annie Couch, Elena Otteson, Thais Otteson, Abby Ingram
The Little Princesses ~ Beginning Ballet Classes 1-4
The Golden Apples ~ Pre Ballet classes
Kashchei ~ TBA
Kashchei’s Magical Creatures and Goblins ~ Basic Ballet and Beginning Ballet
Polovistian Dances from Prince Igor
The Polovtsian Dances were first produced by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet on May 18, 1909 with
Sophie Fedorova (Polovetsian Girl), Yelena Smirnova (Polovetsian Woman) and Adolph Bolm (Polovetsian Chief).
Staged by Michel Fokine to the ballet music from the second act of the operaPrince Igor, its correct title is
actually Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor. There is no story, just a display of magnificently savage dance, more or less
in the Tartar folk idiom.
Intermediate/Advance Ballet Classes
Begininng Ballet Classes 3 & 4