, Russia same time that everyone knows is full of images relegated to the great wars of the twentieth century, the workers' revolutions, the communist policies exasperated. That of the Petipa ballet dancer is the story of a great artist of the nineteenth century whose fortunes will be made in part as a choreographer in Tsarist Russia of the Romanovs. In the eighteenth century to the throne the Czar Peter the Great which promotes broad reforms to modernize the nation's largest. His was a policy of openness to the West, in dance it gave a strong boost so much so that soon made itself felt, both in social as in the theater. Reveal the beauty and genius of the human adventures Tsarist courts. Architecture, literature, poetry, music, theater and dance. The art explodes and mixes with the best traditions of imperial affairs. Gossip, scandals, court festivals and the unforgettable era of Empress Feodorovna and his Rasputin. All'indomni the Congress of Vienna a European card was redesigned and a new mentality. The nineteenth century also marked the beginning of new relations between European artists and even the Russian court, intensified to the point that, for each dancer or choreographer of some importance, it became a habit to go on tour in St. Petersburg. Marius Petipa (Paris 1822) creates a work of synthesis and development between different areas of the European courts. He was hired at the Imperial Theatre as principal dancer in 1847 and created the foundations of the Russian Ballet and its repertoire. The French choreographer developed the technique of classical ballet, particularly marked in the evolution and development of the Russian school. It was thanks to him that began in Russia a new season of dance. His era was characterized by the preservation of the values \u200b\u200bin the romantic ballet, were resumed, in fact, masterpieces such as "Giselle" is the original version, both in the reconstruction of Petipa, "Coppelia", "Syphide," "La Esmeralda ". In 1862 Petipa realizes one of his first "grand spectacle" that is "La Fille du Pharaon," which with its exotic setting and his characters suspended between reality and dream work is the tendency of the French choreographer to maintain a perpetual nostalgia for the values \u200b\u200bof the past. After this success will be staged in Moscow, the Don Qhiscotte that soon will be part of the classical repertoire. The music is descriptive and rich in local color and well suited to the mature style of Petipa, the narrative process that combines the traditional pas d'action "with a new theatrical form based on pure academic technique, to create moments of virtuosic choreography, often completely independent of the dramatic. Over time the work of Petipa tends to bring Russian ballet to its own autonomy, especially deal with the invasion of the Italian dancers, which often requires changes to their acrobatic choreography. The formula of "pax de deux" was invented by his genius. They became the bravura of famous couples such as the famous song "Le Corsaire," which he composed for Petipa the great Enrico Cecchetti and Emma Bessone. The collaboration between the musician and the French choreographer Cajikoskij led to the creation of the three most successful ballets of the nineteenth century: the Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake. The stories of these extraordinary ballets are very well known. It is interesting to underline how in the case of Sleeping Beauty, the Nutcracker is alluded to much shorter Imperial Nicholas II and Alexander III, who held Tsar's Russia in a state of perpetual difficulties and counter-effective. The third is the apotheosis of bravura ballet Petipa-Cajikoskij mating, repeated in dozens of essays in dance schools, the dancers try to reproduce the atmosphere and its mix of Germanic legends with the charm and mystery of Russian fairy tales . After the death of Cajikoskij, the era of Petipa start to finish. His students will strive for a long time to find new ways to ballet. Petipa did not see the revolutionary events of 1917 abdication of Nicholas II, the last of the Romanovs. He passed away many years ago when it was put to rest with the office honorific of "maitre de ballet à vie" even before the historical facts that are unleashed in revolutionary Russia.
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