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- The Dying Swan is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux. The short ballet (4 minutes) follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. The ballet has since influenced modern interpretations of Odette in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and has inspired non-traditional interpretations as well as various adaptations.
- Around 1820, in Seville, Spain, the most provocative gypsy, Carmen, fascinates the young men around her. But, only a soldier of the guard, Don Jose isn't interested in her. The girls who went back to the cigarette factory, cause a quarrel. Carmen is to blame, and she is arrested. However, Carmen seduces the guard, Jose, and runs away. Jose who was imprisoned for letting Carmen slip away, has just been released, and he goes to meet her at a tavern. With that flower in his hand, He tells her his feelings. He can't help himself to join the smugglers with her. The following month, at the square in front of the bullfight arena, Escamillo who is Carmen's lover, is welcomed by spectators. He enters the arena. Carmen remains at the square, then, Jose appears. He demands she leave with him, but she refuses to. In rejection to his persistence, Carmen throws away the ring that Jose once gave her. Jose stabs her to death with a dagger, and he is then dumbfounded by his actions.
- A neoclassical pas de deux created by Agata Jankowska- Dobrowolska choreographed to show the flexibility that ballet dancers can reach.
- Sicilienne (allegro molto moderato)- the movement although in the traditionally sad key of G minor, represents, in Larner's view, "the one moment of happiness shared by Pelléas and Mélisande". Pelléas and Mélisande (French: Pelléas et Mélisande) is a Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters. The work was very popular. It was adapted as an opera by Claude Debussy, and it inspired other contemporary composers, including Gabriel Fauré, Arnold Schoenberg, and Jean Sibelius.