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The Petipa Bicentennial (March 11, 2018)


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47 minutes ago, Joseph said:

Exactly! Ok - I'll stay abreast on this!! Thank you so much for passing the information over! 

 

No problem.  I suspect that the only associated performances may be by the Vaganova students &/or the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, which is a co-sponsor. (The Conservatory is the big building across the Mariinsky.) But one never knows if there may be more. Just going to the conference and seeing a couple of performances of complete ballets would be great.

 

Oh...I also asked if the sessions will be webcasted or made available in some other form, as they did in Bordeaux.

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52 minutes ago, Natalia said:

 

No problem.  I suspect that the only associated performances may be by the Vaganova students &/or the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, which is a co-sponsor. (The Conservatory is the big building across the Mariinsky.) But one never knows if there may be more. Just going to the conference and seeing a couple of performances of complete ballets would be great.

 

Oh...I also asked if the sessions will be webcasted or made available in some other form, as they did in Bordeaux.

This is great - I will stay very much tuned and appreciate all of this!

 

 

 

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Mexico's National Ballet Company recently celebrated Petipa's b'day at Bellas Artes Theatre, Mexico City, with 4 gala performances (13-20 Aug). The final acts of three major Petipa works were featured:  Bayadere, Raymonda and Don Q. The final night was telecast nationally but some bits have made their way to Youtube.

 

Bayadere Shades during the event (Mexican TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCbycddd0tg

 

Company A.D. Natasha Laguna previews the homage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2is59r-cb10

 

Mexican TV attends the dress rehearsal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2RLx651lyo

 

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On ‎4‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 3:23 PM, canbelto said:

Why does Petipa need to be celebrated? ...

 

Uh...why not? He's only the grandfather of our favorite art! Where would we be without Grand-pa Peti-pa?

 

I am sorry not to be able to attend the big to-do in St Petersburg next March but I trust that Buddy & other BA members may be able to go and report. A lot of events tied to the Bicentennial are happening, including the aforementioned series of galas in Mexico. I'll try my best to attend Ratmansky's Harlequinade reconstruction at the Met next June.

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The Bolshoi is celebrating Petipa's birthday with this, just a couple of days after the actual 200th b'day:

13 marchtuesday

 
Russian Ballet Schools Festival "Homage to Marius Petipa". Gala Concert

 


 
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Moscow’s Stanislavsky Ballet will celebrate Petipa’s 200th with a gala program on April 24:

http://stanmus.com/event/441140

On April 2, St Petersburg's Dance Open Festival will host a number of guests, including the Ekaterinburg Ballet In Vikharev’s recon of Petipa’s La Fille Mal Gardee. 

http://www.danceopen.com/en/xvii-season/events/2000-the-wayward-daughter

As pointed out elsewhere, this year’s Mariinsky Festival will basically be a two-month (March-April) stretch of mostly-Petipa ballets, though in their 20th-C Soviet stagings. Big Petipa Gala on March 11, just two days before the school’s own gala.

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2018/3/11/1_2000

Hope that some of these might be televised or, even better, live streamed.

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16 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Moscow’s Stanislavsky Ballet will celebrate Petipa’s 200th with a gala program on April 24:

Thank you so much for this heads up - just got tix for 24th April, in fact there is another show on the 23rd. Now some info which may be of use to those attempting to buy tix online for the Bolshoy or Stasik :  I was only able to complete the purchase after connecting via Russia VPN and using the Russki version of Stasik website, otherwise there was some sort of blocking in effect. Same thing has happened to me more than once at Bolshoy - there also there is some sort of blocking which kicks in for high demand shows or "limited edition" events. Connecting via Russia VPN and using the Russian website does the trick !

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Once one goes through Russia VPN and Russian website the system does not reject foreign credit cards. This anomaly is only particular to Bolshoy and Stasik in my experience - have not encountered any blocking at any time while trying to buy tix online for Mariinka or Mixailovskiy.

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3 hours ago, Birdsall said:

I just noticed that on the Mariinsky website the March 8 and 9 Sleeping Beauty performances that are at the historic theatre are the reconstructions that have not been done in a while there.

Eagle-Eyes!  I did not think even to look at the credits!  I am so pleased!

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On 2/5/2018 at 5:31 PM, CharlieH said:

As pointed out elsewhere, this year’s Mariinsky Festival will basically be a two-month (March-April) stretch of mostly-Petipa ballets, though in their 20th-C Soviet stagings. Big Petipa Gala on March 11, just two days before the school’s own gala.

 

Charlie, or anyone else, will there be a Vaganova gala the 13th? Could you please give me the link?

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22 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Buddy, my Nov 28 post, above, gives some info. It came from Vaganova Facebook. I posted here as soon as I saw it on my Facebook (same day).

Thanks, Charlie. I've not found any reference to a Vaganova gala in March but I'll keep looking.

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12 minutes ago, Buddy said:

I've not found any reference to a Vaganova gala in March but I'll keep looking.

Dear Buddy : I queried my contacts in Piter when I was there for Shurale and was told the Vaganova event on or about March 13th is a conference not a ballet gala.

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37 minutes ago, mnacenani said:

Dear Buddy : I queried my contacts in Piter when I was there for Shurale and was told the Vaganova event on or about March 13th is a conference not a ballet gala.

Thanks, Mnacenani.

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On 2/15/2018 at 1:34 PM, Buddy said:

Thanks, Charlie. I've not found any reference to a Vaganova gala in March but I'll keep looking.

It’s on an advertisement for the program that the academy performed on a recent tour to Switzerland and some other European stops. It’s the program that includes excerpts from Burlaka’s Flora’s Awakening Suite, excerpts from Naiad & Fisherman, etc. The original ad (published in Nov)  for the Feb 2018 Euro tour also mentioned the presentation in StP. I don’t recall the venue - Alexandrinsky? Not the Mariinsky.

A similar program will be performed in Moscow, in summer, at the Kremlin Theatre.

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On 2/15/2018 at 1:50 PM, mnacenani said:

Dear Buddy : I queried my contacts in Piter when I was there for Shurale and was told the Vaganova event on or about March 13th is a conference not a ballet gala.

Yes. The performance was originally advertised to be in conjunction with the conference.

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Just confirmed by Mezzo TV of France: the March11 Petipa 200th gala will be live-telecast! According to Mezzo’s website, the gala will be conducted by Gergiev and is set to include Petipa/Vikharev’s Flora’s Awakening, Balanchine’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (assume an excerpt) and Keichel’s new (or reconstructed?) choreography  for Glazunov’s The Seasons. This is more information than what’s cited in the Mariinsky’s own site. No casting yet provided but we’re promised most of the Mariinsky principals and soloists.

http://www.mezzo.tv/nos-programmes/soiree_hommage_a_marius_petipa_theatre_mariinsky_11032018

Since the cameras will be around, is it too much to ask that they also capture the Vikharev Sleeping Beauty for future airing or a DVD release?

Also on the Petipa-200 front:

Arte TV (France) will air a new 52-Minutes documentary (by Denis Snegirev):  Marius Petipa: French Master of the Russian Ballet

http://www.poissonsvolants.com/project/marius-petipa-le-maitre-francais-du-ballet-russe/

In partnership with the French Institute of Russia, Moscow’s Bakhrushin Museum  presents a major Petipa exhibition from March 7 through June 10.

https://www.institutfrancais.ru/fr/moscou/exposition-deux-siecles-petipa

This culminates in a Petipa conference on June 6-8, 2018.

http://www.gctm.ru/en/2018/01/30/the-exhibition-two-centuries-of-marius-petipa-is-open-in-march-7/

 

 

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Yet more celebration of Petipa’s birthday! The Academy of Russian Ballet (Vaganova Academy) will perform a gala in Moscow’s Kremlin Theater on June 20, in honor of Petipa:

 

https://m.facebook.com/events/146144772734174?acontext={"ref"%3A"98"%2C"action_history"%3A"null"}&aref=98

The concert will include guests from other great ballet academies around the world. Ballets on the program include Petipa’s setting of Dance of the Hours for the ballet La Gioconda, among other rarities.

There’s a good chance that the gala will be telecast by Russia’s Kultura Channel, just as happened with the Vaganova Academy’s two past guest concerts at the Kremlin palace theater (2016 and 2017).

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4 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

There’s a good chance that the gala will be telecast by Russia’s Kultura Channel,

Have never been able to get Kultura in Istanbul - satcast footprint does not cover Istanbul, and webcast has detected and defeated every VPN I have tried. Would be grateful if any members can suggest what to try.

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10 minutes ago, mnacenani said:

Have never been able to get Kultura in Istanbul - satcast footprint does not cover Istanbul, and webcast has detected and defeated every VPN I have tried. Would be grateful if any members can suggest what to try.

The past Kremlin galas by the Vaganova Acad have eventually made it to YouTube but, of course, we can publicize it here if we learn of a way to see it during the telecast. 

For example, the 2016 telecast is all on YouTube, in 4 stages. Through this, you’ll also see the full 2-hr 2017 telecast in one big file. 

 

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11 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Just confirmed by Mezzo TV of France: the March11 Petipa 200th gala will be live-telecast! According to Mezzo’s website, the gala will be conducted by Gergiev and is set to include Petipa/Vikharev’s Flora’s Awakening, Balanchine’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (assume an excerpt) and Keichel’s new (or reconstructed?) choreography  for Glazunov’s The Seasons. This is more information than what’s cited in the Mariinsky’s own site. No casting yet provided but we’re promised most of the Mariinsky principals and soloists.

http://www.mezzo.tv/nos-programmes/soiree_hommage_a_marius_petipa_theatre_mariinsky_11032018

Since the cameras will be around, is it too much to ask that they also capture the Vikharev Sleeping Beauty for future airing or a DVD release?

Also on the Petipa-200 front:

Arte TV (France) will air a new 52-Minutes documentary (by Denis Snegirev):  Marius Petipa: French Master of the Russian Ballet

http://www.poissonsvolants.com/project/marius-petipa-le-maitre-francais-du-ballet-russe/

In partnership with the French Institute of Russia, Moscow’s Bakhrushin Museum  presents a major Petipa exhibition from March 7 through June 10.

https://www.institutfrancais.ru/fr/moscou/exposition-deux-siecles-petipa

This culminates in a Petipa conference on June 6-8, 2018.

http://www.gctm.ru/en/2018/01/30/the-exhibition-two-centuries-of-marius-petipa-is-open-in-march-7/

 

 

I hope I'm wrong but I have a sad feeling in my gut that tells me no Gergiev conducting equals no filming :(

The casting of the Tereshkina/Shklyarov performance, with Kondaurova as Lilac and Kolb as Carabosse, on the 8th, seems to have been made with filming in mind so who knows. When do people usually find out if a performance is being filmed or not? I feel like with a week to go we would have already found out.

They performed it this ballet 10 years and then dropped it without ever releasing a DVD/Blu-ray (other popular ballets still performed have one!). Now with it being revived for the bicentennial (and likely to be dropped again once its over) this will be the very last chance of capturing the whole ballet on celluloid. I really hope they don't throw the chance away otherwise I'd assume their personal hatred for it clouds their judgement.  

But as I'm sure you know in the "Sacred Stage" documentary they have parts of the Prologue and Rose Adagio (with Zhanna Ayupova) professionally filmed. They also have the whole vision scene (with Zhanna and Anton Korsakov) as a DVD bonus. I've always wondered if that whole performance was actually filmed, for the documentary producers to pick and choose clips with permission, and its now lying somewhere in the Mariinsky vaults gathering dust.

 

 

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