ABT at the Dorothy Chandler July 2011 - The Bright Stream

[ksk04]

Just announced today:

A mainstay in the Music Center's dance series, American Ballet Theatre returns with the company's West Coast premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's "The Bright Stream," set to music by Dmitri Shostakovich. A comic ballet in two acts, it tells the story of the members of a Russian farm collective in the 1930's and their humorous interactions with a group of visiting performers during the harvest festival. With its technical precision and undeniable grace, ABT will leave audiences joyful and invigorated.

"...his [Ratmansky] "Bright Stream" is the best evening-length story ballet since MacMillan."

- New York Times

PERFORMANCE DATES/ TIMES

Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:30 p.m.

Friday, July 15, 2011 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 16, 2011 2:00 p.m.

Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, July 17, 2011 2:00 p.m.

Dorothy Chandler Homepage

Sounds great! I was hoping we'd get this either at OCPAC or the Music Center. I guess OCPAC didn't want it again since they had it on the original Bolshoi tour??

[sidwich]

I actually saw this when the Bolshoi did it at the Met a few years ago. It's actually really delightful in a "Coppelia meets Russian peasants frolicking on the collective" kind of way.

[papeetepatrick]

sidwich, you've made me want to see this piece. Was this also done by NYCB about 3 years ago? Confused, because here we have ABT doing it, but I thought I remembered NYCB, although I didn't get to see it back then.

[abatt]

sidwich, you've made me want to see this piece. Was this also done by NYCB about 3 years ago? Confused, because here we have ABT doing it, but I thought I remembered NYCB, although I didn't get to see it back then.

NYCB has never done Bright Stream. You may be thinking of Ratmansky's Russian Seasons, which was performed by NYCB a few years ago and has since been picked up by other companies.

[papeetepatrick]

Abatt, thanks--that was exactly it, and since I didn't see it, it had a similar poetic echo or something like that just from the titles. I should have known from the 'evening-length' that that wasn't it, though.