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[ronny]

Just heard that the President and Mrs. Bush attended ballet in St Petersburg.  I assume they saw the Kirov Company perform.   Does anyone know what they saw?

Also just heard that PBS will air a special next thursday evening on the New York Ballet Company.   I'm sure you all have heard of it by now, but I thought I should mention it.  Maybe you have more details.

[Roma]

Apparently Putin requested that Shemyakin's "Nutcracker" be presented during Bush's visit, so that's what they saw.

[ronny]

OK, thanks.  That would have been nice for them since they are probably familiar with the nutcracker.  Wouldn't mind seeing that myself!

[Kevin Ng]

There's a short mention of President Bush's visit to the Maryinsky Theatre last night, in the News section of the Kirov website.

http://www.mariinsky.ru/en

[BalletNut]

Apparently KQED, the SF PBS affiliate, has decided not to air the Diamond Project Gala...

[Alexandra]

That's an outrage!  Protest!  Email!  Write letters!

[ronny]

Here is the blurb on the thursday May 30th PBS event:

Live from Lincoln Center

New York City Ballet's Diamond project;
Ten years of new choreography
Highlights from eight performances of ballets choreographed by Ulysses Dove, Peter Martins, Devin O Day, Angelin Preljocog, Richard Tanner, Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Christopher Weeldon.

Have fun...  hope everyone gets to see it one way or another.

[K2356]

Diamond will be on PBS in Detroit at 4 A.M. on June 2,i am going to need toothpicks to keep my eyes open for this performance !!!!!