Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky - Choreography

Choreography

Alexander Gorsky choreographed, restaged, and revived many ballets. He created many of his own ballets but it was his restaging of Marius Petipa’s ballets that have become more well known. Some say he paved the way for Michel Fokine’s work Some of Gorsky’s ballets were Gudule’s Daughter (ru: Дочь Гудулы) (a revision of the La Esmeralda, Salammbo, Etudes, Dances of the Nations, Eunice and Petronius, and Love is Quick.

Of the Bolshoi Theatre's classical repertory Gorsky revived the Petipa/Ivanov version of La Fille mal gardée for the first time in 1903 (Gorsky's version would become the basis for nearly every production staged in Russia and the west for decades), the Petipa/Ivanov revival of Swan Lake in 1901, Petipa's Don Quixote in 1900, La Bayadère (with Vasily Tikhomirov) in 1904, and Raymonda in 1905. He also revised The Nutcracker and Petipa's revival of Arthur Saint-Léon's The Little Humpbacked Horse in 1901