Dance with Margot - Volume 1 CD

Margot has been playing the piano since the age of 7 and has trained at the Royal College of Music in London. As a solo pianist she has played for many ballet performances in opera houses around the world including the Paris Opera, the Munich Opera, Monte Carlo, Sadler’s Wells in London, and San Francisco. Dance with Margot Volume 1 CD is played on a Steinway Grand piano, has 45 tracks of well-known melodies from "Tea for Two" to "Traviata". Several exercises have slower and faster versions. Boys' exercises are included and music for Fouettes, from "Swan Lake".

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Barre
Warm-Up - Bewitched, R.Rodgers/La Vie en Rose, Louiguy 4/4 48 bars 2:21  
Leg Swings - Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov 3/4 32 bars 0:55  
Pliés - Intermezzo, Mascagni: 2nd Side, “Love is my Reason”, Novello 3/4 64 bars 4:20  
Battements Tendus - “More”, Oliviero 4/4 16 bars 2:00  
2nd Tendus - “Falling in Love Again” Hollander 3/4 32 bars 2:00  
3rd Tendus - La Gioconda, Ponchielli 4/4 16 bars 1:08  
Batt. Glissés - Grizzly Bear Rag, Botsford 4/4 16 bars 0:56  
Batt. Dégagés from “Oklahoma”, Rodgers 2/4 16 bars 0:45  
Batt. Dégagés - Liberty Bell, J. Sousa 6/8 32 bars 1:12  
Ronds de Jambe a Terre - La Traviata, Verdi 3/4 32 bars + 16 3:43  
Battement Fondu - Tango Jamaica Farewell, Burgie 4/4 16 bars 1:24  
Battement Fondu - “Fly me to the Moon”, Howard 3/4 16 bars 1:04  
Batt. Frappés from Faust, Gounod 4/4 16 bars 0:55  
Quicker Frappés - Double Concerto op.102, Brahms 2/4 16 bars 0:49  
Ronds de Jambe en l’air - Santa Lucia, Cottrau 3/4 32 bars 1:28  
Adage - Spartacus, Khachaturian 4/4 16 bars 1:54  
Adage - Tosca, Puccini 3/4 32 bars 1:02  
Petits Battements - M. Kazimirska 2/4 16 bars + 8 0:55  
Grands Battements - “Oh, Lady be Good”, Gershwin 4/4 16 bars 1:20  
Quicker Grands Batts - Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti 4/4 16 bars 1:00  
Grands Battements - La Traviata, Verdi 3/4 32 bars 1:05  
Stretching - “Souvenir de Florence”, Tchaikovsky 3/4 64 bars 2:21 

Centre
Port de Bras - Sonata for flute, Bach 6/8 16 bars 1:05 
Battements Tendus - La Ci Darem La Mano, Mozart 4/4 32 bars 1:05 
Battements Dégagés - “Tea for Two”, Youmans 2/4 32 bars 0:50 
Adage - Violin Concerto, Bruch 3/4 32 bars 1:04 
Adage from Carmen, Bizet 4/4 32 bars 0:54 
Attitude Pirouettes - Waltz in Ab, Chopin 3/4 64 bars 1:31 
Grands Batts. with Pirouettes - Polonaise, Tchaikovsky 3/4 16 bars 0:35 
Pirouettes - Waltz in E minor, Shostakovich “Wien, Wien nur du Allein”, Sieczynski 3/4 64 bars 2:13 
Chainés - Thumbelina, Loesser Quicker: South Pacific, Rodgers 2/4 48 bars 1:46 
Petit Allegro - Rag Baby, Losey 2/4 16 bars 0:24 
More small jumps - William Tell, Rossini 2/4 32 bars 0:40 
Echappés - Fashion Rag, Cohen 2/4 32 bars 0:39 
Slower tempo for Boys - Fashion Rag, Cohen 2/4 16 bars 0:25 
Echappés, quicker tempo - Fashion Rag, Cohen 2/4 16 bars 0:19 
Assemblés - Flower Festival, Helsted Don Pasquale, Donizetti 6/8 40 bars 1:00 
Sissonnes - Don Quixote, Minkus 3/4 64 bars 1:00 
Grand Allegro - Merry Widow Waltz, Lehar Wunderbar, C. Porter Le Corsaire, Drigo 3/4 64 bars 2:36 
Boys’ Enchainement from Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky 6/8 16 bars 0:20 
Boys’ Tours en l’Air from Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky 4/4 16 bars 0:36 
Coda - Le Corsaire, Drigo Flower Festival, Helsted 2/4 48 bars 1:09 
Fouettés from Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky  2/4 16 bars + 32 0:46 
Turns in 2nd, or Fouettés - Don Quixote, Minkus 2/4 16 bars + 16 0:36 
Port de Bras - The Two Pigeons, Message 3/4 32 bars 1:08