Bayadere

As we've seen in her past performances here of Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty" and Nikiya in "La Bayadere," Vishneva renders her characters with acute vitality.

Mariinsky's 'Giselle': Less is more Sarah Kaufman 2011

Early successes include Jerome Robbins's "Dances at a Gathering," where he outshone several more established dancers, and the lead role in "La Bayadere," when he was only 19.

All the World's a Stage Sarah Frater 2010

Bayadere fabric is striped, indeed this term came to stand for the stripes themselves.

Mrs. Hume 2009

Bayadere fabric is striped, indeed this term came to stand for the stripes themselves.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

ABT, founded in 1940, did not acquire "Don Quixote" until 1978 and "La Bayadere" until 1980, thanks to defectors Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova.

Sleeping Beauties, Waking Beasts: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

Even in William IV. ‘s time, when I think of Duvernay prancing in as the Bayadere, — I say it was a vision of loveliness such as mortal eyes can’t see now-a-days.

Roundabout Papers 2006

"Forest King"; and in the panels of the latter were miniatures of his sire and of his dam: Lord of the Isles, one of the greatest hunters that the grass countries ever saw sent across them; and Bayadere, a wild-pigeon-blue mare of Circassia.

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

Almeh, of a Bayadere, of a Nautch girl -- as untutored and instinctive in her as its song to a bird, as its swiftness to a chamois.

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

He stands and watches Edith dance -- this country girl has the lithe, willowy grace of a Bayadere, and she is laughing now, and looking very bright and animated.

A Terrible Secret May Agnes Fleming 1860

"Marmotte (her pet name in the family) looks like a Bayadere to-day."

Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859