divertissement
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This 1898 divertissement by Marius Petipa, to the melodious music of Alexander Glazunov, is accented with moves shaped by Hungarian folk dance and has long been a staple of various classical ballet companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The loveliest expression of these is in the second act, where the enchanted forest is replaced by a pure-dance divertissement.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
But its engagement with these subjects rarely goes beyond the decorative, and the light, airy divertissement I was expecting feels curiously bogged down rather than liberated by Anderson’s five-part vignette structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
This season, the Act 2 pas de quatre, a speedy and demanding divertissement for three women and one man, was cut to help streamline the ballet.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
There was to be a grand dinner, and then our music-master, Mr. 13-04, would lead a band and singers in a brief operatic divertissement, delectable to the taste of His Lordship.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
He followed it with a succession of intensely theatrical divertissements, often revolving around unexpected intellectual conceits or bizarre juxtapositions and featuring brilliant dialogue, puns, repartee, double meanings and misunderstandings.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
To prove he was worth his salt in card-sharking, Fallon asked Reynolds to engage in a friendly game of Slapjack, yet another one of Fallon’s twisted divertissements.
From Time ● Sep. 22, 2015
Several other successful American productions add items from other Tchaikovsky works or from other composers; and a surprising number change the order of the Act II divertissements.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2013
The divertissements that take up most of act two are the weakest theatrical element of the ballet.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2012
The duties of the cromorne and tromba-marina players consisted in playing in the great divertissements and at court functions and festivals in honour of royal marriages, births and thanksgivings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
