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Pas de deux are often featured in ballet highlight videos and are the staple of ballet galas and competitions.

Notable Pas de Deux

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Bayadere

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La Bayadère

  • Composer: Ludwig Minkus


Coppelia

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Coppélia

  • Composer: Léo Delibes
  • Pas de Deux, Swanilda & Franz
    • Act ???
  • Wedding Pas de Deux, Swanilda & Franz
    • Act III

Corsaire

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Le corsaire

  • Composer: Adolphe Adam
  • Pas de Deux, Medora and the Slave

Don Quixote

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The entire Don Quixote ballet is seldom seen, but this pas de deux is very <showy> and is often performed in exhibitions and competitions.

  • Composer: Ludwig Minkus
  • Grand Pas de deux
    • Act ???
    • Kitri Variation
      • with fan
    • Bridesmaid Variation

Esmeralda

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La Esmeralda

Flames of Paris

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Flames of Paris

  • Composer: Boris Asafiev

Flower Festival of Genzano

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The Flower Festival in Genzano

  • Composer: Edvard Helsted

Giselle

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Giselle

  • Composer: Adolphe Adam
  • Pas de Deux
    • Act I
  • Pas de Deux
    • Act II
  • Peasant Pas de Duex

Grand Pas Classique

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Paquita

  • Composer: Francois Auber

La Fille Mal Gardee

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La fille mal gardée

  • Composer: Peter Ludwig Hertel and others

Nutcracker

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The Nutcracker

  • Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Grand Pas de Deux
  • Act III ???

Paquita

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Paquita

  • Composer: Riccardo Drigo

Raymonda

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Raymonda

  • Composer: Alexander Glazunov

Sleeping Beauty

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  • Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchikovsky
  • Blue Bird Pas de deux
    • Princess Florine and Blue Bird
  • Grand Pas de Deux
    • Act III

Swan Lake

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Swan Lake

  • Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • The Black Swan Pas de deux
    • Act 3
    • with it's 32 fouetté turns may be the most famous pas de deux in all of ballet. <Classical Dance p85>
    • Odile's variation
  • The White Swan Pas de deux ???
    • Act ???