Kirov Ballet-Polovtsian/Polovetsian Dances
2002-Theatre Musical de Paris
Slave Girl: Elena Bazhenova
Polovetsian: Islom Baimuradov
(Polovtsy means yellowish, and regions north of
Black Sea area)
Music: Alexander Borodin - Opera Prince Igor (1880)
to commemorate Alexander II's Eastern Conquest.
>Original Title: "In the Stepps of Central Asia
>Chorus of Polovetsian Maidens
"Fly away on the wings of the wind
to our homeland, o native song of ours,
thither, where we freely sang you,
where it was so free for me and you."
>Also known as "Stranger in Paradise (Kismet)"
>Gliding Dance of the Maidens
>Wild Dance of the Men
Choreography: Mikhail Fokine (for Nijinsky)
