Hans Beck

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References are made to a series of 'Mr. B's' in the story of August Bournonville's 'chain of beauty' with regard to the staging of his ballets from 1879 to the present, one being Hans Beck, who took over the direction of the Royal Danish Ballet in 1894. The great dancer mounted a series of carefully revised productions of Bournonville's most important works during the 1890s, and this was probably the greatest single contribution for the later survival of the Bournonville tradition in the 20th century.

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One out of many? Bournonville, Paul Taglioni, and the ballet of the mid-nineteenth century

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The acclaimed mid-19th-century ballet-master August Bournonville is studied from the perspective of a wider framework, namely, who he was seen in the context of his time, the masters he looked up to, the other important artists of the time, and so on. A discussion on the ballet scene in central Europe at that time is presented, first as exemplified by Berlin and Vienna and then through the work of Paul Taglioni, who served as a criterion for Bournonville.

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Asaf and Sulamith Messerer's 1933 European tour

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Asaf Messerer's tour of Western Europe in 1933 that he made with his sister Sulamith Messerer, who was also a principal Bolshoi dancer, made him the leading male dancer of the Bolshoi, outside Russia. The Messerer's became the first to represent Soviet ballet abroad and the second generation of the Messerer's also became world famous, Maya Plisetskaya being the most prominent.

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