Sabre Dance
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title:
Sabre Dance
text:
"Sabre Dance" is a movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's ballet Gayane (1942), where the dancers display their skill with sabres. It is Khachaturian's best known and most recognizable work worldwide. In the composer’s own words, the “Dance of the Kurds”, which subsequently became the “Sabre Dance”, originated with the insistence of the Director of the Kirov Theatre already after the rehearsal process had commenced. Although Khachaturian considered the score to be complete, he reluctan
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description:
Movement in Khachaturian's ballet Gayane
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Dance
date created:
2003-06-06T15:07:23Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T06:21:10Z
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