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Mariinsky Int'l Ballet Festival (3/24-4/3/05)


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[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

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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!"

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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. :unsure:

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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.  :unsure:

G.O.K. :rolleyes:

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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?

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 :blink:

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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

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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 (???).

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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"! :yahoo:

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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"!  :yahoo:

I bet double or nothing on that one. The odds are better than 2 to 1 'AS' will

take another dip in the lake.

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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!

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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.

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