Lev Ivanov

While the production is not as solid as a truly inspired "Swan Lake" might be, artistic director Kevin McKenzie's staging, "after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov," first shown in 2000, is one of the best looking and least ignorant around.

These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011

"The Nutcracker" originated in Russia, making its debut in St. Petersburg in 1892 with choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.

Nutcracker Inc. Ellen Gamerman 2011

While the production is not as solid as a truly inspired "Swan Lake" might be, artistic director Kevin McKenzie's staging, "after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov," first shown in 2000, is one of the best looking and least ignorant around.

These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011

Lisbon dance "Swan Lake" presents the Russian State Ballet with 70 dancers performing their energetic version of the classic ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.

What's on Around Europe 2010

After the preceding scenes, which occur in the confines of the characters 'home, a new scene takes the action to a "Fir Forest" and into the work's first big, formal dance, "The Waltz of the Snowflakes," originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov.

A 'Nutcracker' Like No Other 2007

After the preceding scenes, which occur in the confines of the characters 'home, a new scene takes the action to a "Fir Forest" and into the work's first big, formal dance, "The Waltz of the Snowflakes," originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov.

A 'Nutcracker' Like No Other 2007

Much of the original 1895 choreography remains intact, with Marius Petipa credited for the lively court scenes, and Lev Ivanov for the melancholy "white" acts set at Swan Lake.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed PAULA CITRON 2011

Last year, as I toured the United States in a "Nutcracker" marathon, I observed how more than 12 American productions featured the "Sugar Plum" pas de deux that Lev Ivanov choreographed for the 1892 original in St. Petersburg.

NYT > Home Page By ALASTAIR MACAULAY 2011

Lev Ivanov, the ballet was based on a popular 1816 story by German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed PAULA CITRON 2011

The challenge presented by The Nutcracker, ever since Tchaikovsky and Lev Ivanov launched it on a dubious Imperial Petersburg, has been to make its two halves - one set in a bourgeois German household and the other in a kingdom of dancing sweets - seem as if they belong to the same ballet.

Evening Standard - Home Clifford Bishop 2011