cargill Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 I just got a release from ABT saying Veronica Part was joining ABT as a soloist. So ABT now has two tall gorgeous women joining them. Link to comment
Alexandra Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 Here's the release: VERONIKA PART TO JOIN AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE AS A SOLOIST Veronika Part, a soloist with the Kirov Ballet, will join American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist effective August 1, 2002, it was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. Part will make her debut with ABT during the Company?s tour of Japan, September 12-22. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Part began her early training in rhythmic gymnastics before entering the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1988. She joined the Kirov Ballet in 1996 and was promoted to soloist in 1998. Part?s repertoire with the Kirov Ballet includes Nikiya in La Bayadère, Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote, Myrta, Moyna and Zulma in Giselle, Raymonda and Henrietta in Raymonda, Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty and Odette-Odile in Swan Lake. She has also danced roles in George Balanchine?s Apollo (Terpischore), Jewels (Emeralds and Diamonds), Symphony in C (second movement) and Serenade, and in John Neumeier?s The Sounds of Empty Pages. Part was the winner of the BALTIKA Prize in 1999. Link to comment
Manhattnik Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 I guess we know who their big swans are going to be for the forseeable future.... Link to comment
Dale Posted July 22, 2002 Share Posted July 22, 2002 Oh, I hope that's not true, Manhattnik. Just as bad, if they end up two of the four lead corps women in Theme and Variations. Manhattnik, you made a point about Pavlenko being stronger technique-wise than Part. And that might have been one of the reasons she's jumping ship. I'm not an insider and, living in the NY area, don't get to see the Kirov often, but it appears as if Pavlenko (although also a second soloist, like Part) has passed Part in the pecking order. Part had been second cast Diamonds when Jewels was first set on the Kirov, and now doesn't do it as often (at all?) as Gumerova or Pavlenko. Gumerova did more Swan Lakes and La Bayaderes than Part as well. But who knows? Maybe she just wanted to move to New York Although I'm happy about the addition of two of my favorite ballerinas to a company close to me, they are a bit similar to each other. Poor Meunier, here she moves to a different company, where hopefully she'll get used more, and now in comes another tall, lush dancer with many of the same qualities. (Personally, I think both of them excell in Balanchine ballets, so they are sort of in the wrong company, but, maybe is stocking up on Farrellesque women to mount a nice Balanchine birthday aniversary in 2004) Well, things should certainly be interesting at City Center this fall. Or Dvorevenko is going to be out a very long time (she looked very injured while attending the Kirov last week). Link to comment
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