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[cinnamonswirl]

The Suzanne Farrell Ballet - 2 mixed bills (Balanchine, Robbins, Mejia)
Nov 17 - 21, 2010

The Joffrey Ballet: Nutcracker
Nov 24 - 28, 2010

American Ballet Theatre - Bright Stream, 2 mixed bills
Jan 18 - 23, 2011

Mariinsky Ballet: Giselle
Feb 8 - 13, 2011

Protégés III
Mar 25 - 27, 2011
(Bolshoi Ballet Academy, The Royal Danish Ballet School, New National Theatre's Tokyo Young Artists Training Program, and the Julio Bocca Foundation Ballet Argentino School of the Arts)

New York City Ballet
Apr 5 - 10, 2011

Ballet Nacional de Cuba
May 31 - Jun 5, 2011

The Royal Danish Ballet -- Napoli, The Folk Tale
Jun 7 - 12, 2011

http://www.kennedy-c.../newseason/#DBC

Very excited for RDB and the Cuban National Ballet. I'm surprised/disappointed the Bolshoi isn't coming.

[YID]

and where is a promised 10-year agreement signed with Bolshoi? Wasit just a 2 year deal? I hope they would ammend and invite Bolshoi as well.

[nysusan]

American Ballet Theatre - Bright Stream, 2 mixed bills
Jan 18 - 23, 2011

http://www.kennedy-c.../newseason/#DBC

ABT bringing The Bright Stream? Wow, that should be interesting!

I'm also disappointed that the Bolshoi aren't on the schedule, but maybe they'll come to NY next year

[ami1436]

Very excited for most of this, including RDB -- although I wish they were bringing La Sylphide as well, as I love it so.

[Solnishka79]

Didn't we just have Giselle a few years ago? How about something else?

[mom2]

You guys are SO incredibly lucky!! OK, so it's perhaps all the companies and ballets you would have preferred but I think I'll just have to pack my bags for DC!!

[Farrell Fan]

Apropos the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, what is the ballet by Paul Mejia? I keep tellling myself I should know, but the fact is I don't.

[perky]

Apropos the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, what is the ballet by Paul Mejia? I keep tellling myself I should know, but the fact is I don't.

I'm curious as well Farrell Fan. Is it a new Mejia ballet or something Farrell actually danced?
I would love to see her revive Mejia's Cinderella.

[Dale]

I wonder if it wouldn't be "Eight by Adler," which was shown on PBS. According to Mejia's bio, it won an Emmy Award for Farrell.

[Farrell Fan]

I now recall that shortly before Farrell retired from dancing at NYCB in 1989, that company put on a ballet by Mejia called Sinfonia Mistica, to the music of the same name by the Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik. I heard about the planned premiere from Suzanne herself one memorable morning as I headed to work on the Second Avenue bus. I was very surprised to see her on the East Side and felt terrible noticing the difficulty she had getting off the bus at the crosstown stop. At any rate, it turned out she was not in Sinfonia Mistica, which I of course went to see. It may have been Judith Fugate who was in it. Maybe that's the ballet. Maybe not.

[carbro]

Not to confirm or deny your hunch, FF, but here's Sinfonia Mistica's page from the NYCB website. I have no memory of ever having seen it, but yours is pretty good. Indeed, Judith Fugate did dance it, with Ib Andersen.

[Dale]

The page at the Kennedy Center website has been updated:

"The programs feature ballets by Balanchine, including two works fused with music by Igor Stravinsky, the grave and reverential Monumentum Pro Gesualdo and Movements for Piano and Orchestra, which Stravinsky once remarked should have been called "Electric Currents," as well as La Sonnambula, a dance of intrigue set in a shadowy and mysterious masquerade ball. Robbins's In Memory of..., a ballet created for and premiered by Suzanne Farrell, is a poignant struggle between the beautiful earthly soul and death come to take it. The company will perform its first work by Paul Mejia, entitled Eight by Adler. Choreographed for Suzanne Farrell, Eight by Adler is full of the kind of Broadway bravado that wins over audiences and which won Ms. Farrell an Emmy Award for its televised debut."

So it is Eight by Adler. Nice.

[Farrell Fan]

I don't know what I was doing when Eight by Adler was soriginally shown on television, but I never saw it. Exciting to know it's being revived.