Natalia Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 (edited) [Feb 18 update: original post YET AGAIN edited to show latest press release from the Mariinsky press office. - NN] V International Ballet Festival MARIINSKY 2005 Thursday, BALANCHINE – DAWSON – FORSYTHE premiere I 24 March I. Apollo (Balanchine – Stravinsky) II. Two Ballets in the Late 20th Century Manner: Approximate Sonata (Forsythe – Willems) The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (Forsythe – Schubert) III. Reverence (Dawson – Bryars) world premiere Friday, BALANCHINE – DAWSON – FORSYTHE premiere II 25 March I. The Four Temperaments (Balanchine – Hindemith) II. Two Ballets in the Late 20th Century Manner: Approximate Sonata (Forsythe – Willems) The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (Forsythe – Schubert) III. Reverence (Dawson – Bryars) world premiere Saturday, DIANA VISHNEVA GALA PERFORMANCE 26 March Rubies (Balanchine – Stravinsky) Le Bras de mer (premiere, chor. P. Zaska) In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe – Willems) Sunday, GISELLE 27 March Lunkina – Gudanov/Fadeyev Monday, DARIA PAVLENKO GALA PERFORMANCE 28 March Daphnis et Chloe (Ravel – Simonov – Samonov) premiere Steptext (Forsythe – Bach) La Valse (Balanchine – Ravel) Tuesday, MANON 29 March Tsiskaridze – Sologub/Nioradze Wednesday, ULYANA LOPATKINA GALA PERFORMANCE 30 March Act II from The Legend of Love (Grigorovich – Melikov) Act III from Raymonda (Glazunov – Petipa) Diamonds (Balanchine – Tchaikovsky) Thursday, DON QUIXOTE 31 March Cojocaru – Kobborg Friday, MARIINSKY THEATRE CORPS DE BALLET GALA PERFORMANCE 1 April The Kingdom of Shadows from the ballet La Bayadère (Petipa – Minkus) Le Sacre du printemps (Nijinsky – Stravinsky) Etudes (Lander – Czerny) Saturday, SWAN LAKE (Petipa, Ivanov – Tchaikovsky) 2 April Sunday, INTERNATIONAL STARS’ GALA: a 20th-C choreography showcase 3 April The cast of guest artists has changed yet again. NYCB & ABT dancers no longer listed. Current roster of guests: from Bolshoi Theatre (Svetlana Lunkina, Dmitry Gudanov and Nikolai Tsiskaridze), London’s Royal Ballet (Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Roberta Marquez and Vyacheslav Samodurov), the Opéra de Paris (Agnès Letestu, Jean-Guillaume Bart, Laurent Hilaire, Manuel Legris and Nicolas Le Riche) and Milan’s Teatro alla Scala (Roberto Bolle). I will continue to edit this post, as the schedule gels. - Natalia Edited February 18, 2005 by Natalia Link to comment
Marc Haegeman Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Natalia, it's supposed to be a new ballet by David Dawson. I posted more details on http://www.for-ballet-lovers-only.com/Burning3.html Link to comment
Natalia Posted December 31, 2004 Author Share Posted December 31, 2004 Thank you, Marc! ;) Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Well, that's better than the BBC. One new television season, they went to press with the schedule not in final form and the 8-9 PM slot one night was filled with "G.O.K." When people in the office began to ask Programming what this new show was, they said, "Oh bloody hell, somebody's printed a draft - that's God Only Knows!" Link to comment
BalletNut Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Just finished checking out the schedule on Marc's site, and I have a question about the "benefit" performances to be given by Lopatkina, Pavlenko, and Vishneva. What do they mean when they call it a benefit? Do proceeds go to worthy causes, or is it more like a gala celebrating the respective ballerinas? Any word on what pieces will be performed, and who the guest artists are? Just curious. Link to comment
Marc Haegeman Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Just finished checking out the schedule on Marc's site, and I have a question about the "benefit" performances to be given by Lopatkina, Pavlenko, and Vishneva. What do they mean when they call it a benefit? Do proceeds go to worthy causes, or is it more like a gala celebrating the respective ballerinas? Any word on what pieces will be performed, and who the guest artists are? Just curious. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> G.O.K. :rolleyes: Link to comment
Mireille Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Is the schedule on Ballet lovers official? I was wondering what happened with Romeo & Juliet on the 25th (will the program be the same as the 24th?), the Fokine ballets on the 27th, and the Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty ballets. Would anyone know? Link to comment
Marc Haegeman Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Is the schedule on Ballet lovers official? I was wondering what happened with Romeo & Juliet on the 25th (will the program be the same as the 24th?), the Fokine ballets on the 27th, and the Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty ballets. Would anyone know? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It is official, Mireille, in the way that the information was given by the Mariinsky press office. Which is not to say, of course, that it won't change anymore Link to comment
Natalia Posted January 4, 2005 Author Share Posted January 4, 2005 I've replaced the original schedule (1st post - this thread) with the latest from the Mariinsky press office. Huge changes. It may change even further. They have also provided the following list of guest dancers: Bolshoi: Svetlana Lunkina, Dmitry Gudanov, Andrey Uvarov, Nikolai Tsiskaridze Royal Ballet - UK: Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg Paris Opera Ballet: José Martinez, Manuel Legris, Nicolas Le Riche NYCB: Wendy Whelan & Robert Tewsley ABT: Ethan Stiefel Link to comment
Natalia Posted February 10, 2005 Author Share Posted February 10, 2005 UPDATE: Among the offerings during the Daria Pavlenko Benefit Night (March 28) will be the World Premiere of "Daphnis et Chloe" by choreographer Kirill Simonov, to Maurice Ravel's score. Simonov is, of course, best known as the choreographer of the Chemyakin 'Nutcracker'. He now leads the Karelian State Ballet, where he's created quite a few new ballets. As noted elsewhere earlier, William Forsythe is staging a short ballet for the troupe, titled "Approximate Sonata," to a score by Willems. I'm not quite sure what has happened with the previously-announced new ballet by David Dawson; it's no longer on the programme for the initial two nights of the festival. The Forsythe work seems to have replaced it (???). Link to comment
Leigh Witchel Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Natalia - There was a ballet of the same name (Approximate Sonata) done by Forsythe for Frankfurt in 1996 (it premiered with Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude), this may be the same work. Link to comment
Natalia Posted February 10, 2005 Author Share Posted February 10, 2005 According to this February 15 interview with Gergiev: http://www.izvestia.ru/spb/article1212331 ...the World Premiere of David Dowson's ballet "Reverence" will indeed take place during the upcoming Mariinsky Festival. No date cited in the interview. Link to comment
Marc Haegeman Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 According to this February 15 interview with Gergiev: http://www.izvestia.ru/spb/article1212331 ...the World Premiere of David Dowson's ballet "Reverence" will indeed take place during the upcoming Mariinsky Festival. No date cited in the interview. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Updated schedule of the Festival on the Mariinsky website. Link to comment
Natalia Posted February 21, 2005 Author Share Posted February 21, 2005 Thanks, Marc. I've been updating th first post (top of this thread), whenever I hear about a change. It's a never-ending job, it seems. Link to comment
Natalia Posted February 22, 2005 Author Share Posted February 22, 2005 No changes to the schedule today, so far. Just a thought: The stars of the April 2 Swan Lake performance have not been announced yet. Perhaps we could begin an unofficial 'betting pool' on who will be the lucky Odette/Odile? I place my $100 on someone whose initials are "AS"! Link to comment
Cygnet Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 No changes to the schedule today, so far. Just a thought: The stars of the April 2 Swan Lake performance have not been announced yet. Perhaps we could begin an unofficial 'betting pool' on who will be the lucky Odette/Odile? I place my $100 on someone whose initials are "AS"! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I bet double or nothing on that one. The odds are better than 2 to 1 'AS' will take another dip in the lake. Link to comment
Thalictum Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 They're being very cagey about these things. They've never dared to put on the on-line affiche that Vladimir Skylarov made his debut in Sleeping Beauty on the opening night of the Tchaikovsky "Festival." Link to comment
Natalia Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 Thal, I think that the updating of the Mariinsky.ru website's playbills has nothing to do with cover-ups of history. Those playbills are rarely (if ever) updated, as they exist for the purchase of FUTURE ticket sales, not for archival purposes. History isn't the purpose. Ballet is over - to heck with recording-for-posterity the actual performers! Link to comment
ina Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Gumerova-Martinez. But this is only a rumour, which are usually many around Mariinski Festivals. Link to comment
Thalictum Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Natalia what was interesting with that Beauty entry is there was never a Desire posted on line. There was only Novikova and that remains true today. Whereas when Kondaurova replaced Lopatkina as the Lilac Fairy, the affiche entry was updated the next day to reflect. Gumerova would make sense since Chenchikova is her coach as well. Link to comment
Marc Haegeman Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Gumerova would make sense since Chenchikova is her coach as well. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not anymore. Gumerova is working with Yevteyeva now. Link to comment
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