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KIROV BALLET & ORCHESTRA NEW YORK CITY CENTER SEASON
(Apr 1-Apr 20, 2008)
CLICK HERE TO SEE A FULL PROGRAM AND CAST APPROXIMATE SONATA | BALLET IMPERIAL | LA BAYADERE | CHOPINIANA | DIANA AND ACTEON | DON QUIXOTE | ETUDES | JEWELS | IN THE MIDDLE, SOMEWHAT ELEVATED | LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE | PAQUITA | PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 | RAYMONDA | SCHEHEREZADE | SERENADE | STEPTEXT | LE CORSAIRE-LE JARDIN ANIMEE | THE DYING SWAN | THE VERTIGINOUS THRILL OF EXACTITUDE
Ardani Artists and New York City Center proud to announce that the world renowned Kirov Ballet, also known as Ballet Company of the Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg, Russia, returns to New York for a three-week engagement in April 2008. The season will be presented by Ardani Artists in association with New York City Center, and will run from April 1 through April 20, 2008. During its three-week season, over the 200-year-old Russian company, under the Artistic Direction of Valery Gergiev and Director of the Ballet Makhar Vaziev, will be performing a wide range of works by the choreographers and artists who have made the Kirov one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, as well as works by contemporary dance makers. The company’s rich classical repertoire includes works by Marius Petipa, Michel Fokine and George Balanchine and more modern works by William Forsythe. The Kirov Ballet will bring some of its most acclaimed repertory classics:Petipa’s The Kingdom of Shadows from La Bayadere, Fokine’s Scheherazade and Chopiniana, Gorsky’s The Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote andBalanchine’s Jewels and Ballet Imperial, as well as Forsythe’s Steptext. It will be first appearance of the Kirov Ballet and Orchestra at New York City Center, home to some of the country’s leading dance companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Paul Taylor Dance Company. The historic Kirov Ballet was founded in 1783 and is closely linked with the legacy of classical Russian ballet, and throughout the centuries, the company has produced the world’s greatest dancers in ballet, including such legendary performers as Anna Pavlova, Vaclav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, and many more. Under the artistic direction of Valery Gergiev since 1988, the Kirov continues its tradition of discovering exceptional dancers: Uliana Lopatkina, Diana Vishneva, Daria Pavlenko, Igor Zelensky, Igor Kolb, Andrian Fadeev, Danila Korsuntsev and Leonid Sarafanov will be part of the 200-member company performing at City Center.
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