Question: Who was the original choreographer of the Tchaikovsky ballet later re-staged by Gil Boggs for the Colorado Ballet?
Context: The 1917 Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo revival of Swan Lake is a famous version of the ballet "Swan Lake", (ru. " Лебединое Озеро"), (fr.  "Le Lac des Cygnes").  This is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based on an ancient German legend, presented in either four acts, four scenes (primarily outside Russia and Eastern Europe), three acts, four scenes (primarily in Russia and Eastern Europe) or, more rarely, in two acts, four scenes.  Originally choreographed by Julius Reisinger to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (opus 20), it was first presented as "The Lake of the Swans" by the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on 20 February/4 March 1877 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates) in Moscow, Russia.  Although the ballet is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies today base their stagings both choreographically and musically on this revival by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, staged for the Imperial Ballet, first presented on 15 January/27 January 1895, at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia instead of the original version. Yosvani Ramos (born Yosvani Sabdiel Ramos Fontes on 23 June 1979) is a Cuban ballet dancer.  He was a principal artist with The Australian Ballet from January 2008 until April 2013, after nine years as a principal with the English National Ballet.  He joined Cincinnati Ballet as a principal dancer in August 2014 where he remained until the end of that season - May 2015.  He is currently contracted to Colorado Ballet in Denver as a principal dancer, having commenced in August 2015. The Harkness Ballet (1964–1975) was a New York ballet company named after its founder Rebekah Harkness.  Ms. Harkness inherited her husband's fortune in Standard Oil holdings and was a dance lover.  Ms. Harkness funded Joffrey Ballet, but when they refused to rename the company in her honour, she withdrew funding and hired most of the Joffery dancers for her new company.  Joffery Ballet later moved to Chicago, and continues to function.  Harkness Ballet, established in 1964, gave its debut performance in Cannes in 1965, with George Skibine as director, Marjorie Tallchief as ballerina and a repertory featuring work by Alvin Ailey, Skibine, Eric Bruhn, Brian Macdonald and Stuart Hodes, the company mostly toured abroad, in the major theaters of Europe, to great acclaim, giving its dancers and choreographers a cosmopolitan experience unknown to most of their American colleagues.  Its New York debut was in 1967 and Macdonald was also appointed director, succeeded by Lawrence Rhodes (1968) and joined by Benjamin Harkarvy in 1969.  The ballet teacher David Howard was recruited in 1966 and became co-director of the school in 1971 with Maria Vegh, who had begun teaching at the school in 1968.  In 1970, Harkness combined it with the Harkness Youth Ballet (founded 1969), directed by Ben Stevenson, succeeded by Vicente Nebrada. The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица / "Spyashchaya krasavitsa") is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890.  The music was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (his opus 66).  The score was completed in 1889, and is the second of his three ballets.  The original scenario was conceived by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, and is based on Charles Perrault's "La Belle au bois dormant".  The choreographer of the original production was Marius Petipa. Emery LeCrone is a dancer and choreographer from the United States.  She grew up in North Carolina and trained at the School of Greensboro Ballet.  LeCrone spent summers at intensives at the School of American Ballet.  She graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts before joining the North Carolina Dance Theatre.  She began choreographing in 2006.  She was the resident choreographer of the New Chamber Ballet and the Columbia Ballet Collaborative.  She has also choreographed works for the Oregon Ballet Theater and the Colorado Ballet.  She describes her choreographic style as "this sliding, weighted, thick space." Gil Boggs is the Artistic Director of Colorado Ballet in Denver, Colorado.  Boggs accepted the position of Artistic Director with Colorado Ballet in the Spring of 2006.  In August 2014, Boggs re-signed a five-year contract to remain as Colorado Ballet's Artistic Director.  During Boggs’ tenure with Colorado Ballet, he has re-staged full-length productions of Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Don Quixote and Coppélia along with adding new full-length productions of Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella, Le Corsaire, Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan.  Boggs has also presented 15 world premieres and 12 Colorado Ballet premieres by choreographers Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovitch, Antony Tudor, Val Caniparoli, Dwight Rhoden and Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Les Noces is a ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet balletmaster, to the 1923 version of Stravinsky's eponymous music for American Ballet Theatre with sets by Oliver Smith under the supervision of Rosaria Sinisi, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt, and lighting by Jennifer Tipton.  The premiere took place March 30, 1965, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.  The choreographer re-staged "Les Noces" for New York City Ballet to a recording of the piece by the Pokrovsky Ensemble, sung in the full-throated style of traditional Russian village wedding celebrations.  The restaging premiered May 20, 1998, again at the New York State Theater.  It was Robbins' last work. Maia Makhateli (born ca. 1986) is a Georgian ballet dancer.  After terms with the Colorado Ballet and the Birmingham Royal Ballet, she joined the Dutch National Ballet in 2006 where she now is a principal dancer. Colorado Ballet encompasses a 31 member professional performing ballet company, a studio company for advanced dance students, an Academy, and an education and outreach department.  Based in downtown Denver, Colorado, Colorado Ballet serves more than 125,000 patrons each year. John Clifford, born June 12th is the founder / artistic director of the original Los Angeles Ballet (1974–1985), and the chamber sized touring ensemble, Ballet of Los Angeles (1988–1991) and the creator of “CASABLANCA, THE DANCE” produced by Warner Bros.  Theatre Ventures, Inc. (which premiered in Beijing, China at the historic "Great Hall of the People" in 2005) and his Los Angeles Dance Theater.  Before that time,Clifford was a principal dancer and choreographer with George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet, (1966–1974) and guest artist from 1974–1980, and was widely considered to be Balanchine’s protégé (Saturday Review).  He choreographed his first (of 8) ballets for the NYC Ballet under Balanchine at age 20 thus making him the 2nd youngest choreographer in history ever to be attached to a major company.  The first was Balanchine himself who was 20 yrs-old when he choreographed his first ballet for Serge Diaghilev's "Ballets Russes."  During his time with Balanchine, in his early 20's, he also was a guest choreographer with co's ranging from the San Francisco Ballet, to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, to the Deutsche Oper Ballet in Berlin.  Clifford's works were also featured in many TV shows and movies, such as "Flashdance," "The Man Who Loved Women," and TV series such as "Dynasty," "Glitter," and other shows produced by Blake Edwards and Aaron Spelling.
Answer: Marius Petipa