kbarber Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Svetlana just posted this to her facebook page: My dearest friends, let me introduce to you a brand new International ballet project - CANADA ALL STAR BALLET GALA?!!!! Detailed information be followed shortly. Please scheduled ? First Gala will be held on February 11th, 2017 (Saturday), Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto. Tickets coming soon for sale. Follow the news.Please share!!!! ? Photo courtesy NYC Dance Project ❤️ Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 In addition to Svetlana Lunkina, the dancers scheduled to perform at the gala are Eleonora Abbagnato Isabella Boylston Lauren Cuthbertson Jurgita Dronina Hanna Fischer Mathilde Froustey Francesco Gabriele Frola Harrison James Carlo Di Lanno Alban Lendorf Evan McKie Ruslan Skvortsov Cory Stearns Jillian Vanstone Link to comment
Helene Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 What a wonderful line-up! Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Yes, the great thing is that it's not a line-up of flash acts likely to present a non-stop stream of Don Q, "Black Swan" and maybe Talisman. There are a lot of genuinely interesting artists on that list, and I would expect the fare to be more substantial than usual. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Tickets to the gala are now on sale. There is a link to Ticketmaster through the Sony Centre site.http://www.sonycentre.ca/calendar-event-details/?id=291 The gala also has a fledgling web site, and on it I see that Audric Bezard is also listed among the performers. (Yay!) The program, with one exception, consists, unsurprisingly, of pas de deux. Grand Pas Classique (Gsovsky) La Bayadère Carmen (Petit) Don Quixote Flower Festival in Genzano La Fille mal gardée (Ashton) Cinderella (Nureyev) Coppélia Spartacus (Grigorovich) Le Corsaire Romeo & Juliet (MacMillan) Dying Swan Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (Balanchine) Giselle Voices of Spring (Ashton) Everything subject to change, of course. http://canadaallstar.com Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) Revised program of excerpted duets and party pieces, minus Eleonora Abbagnato and Audric Bezard , but with Rebecca Bianchi and Friedemann Vogel . Gsovsky/Auber: Grand Pas Classique Mathilde Froustey, Carlo Di Lanno Petipa/Minkus: La Bayadère (Act 1) Svetlana Lunkina, Ruslan SkvortsovAshton/Prokofiev: Cinderella Sofiane Sylve, Carlo Di Lanno Van Dantzig/R. Strauss: Four Last Songs Jillian Vanstone, Harrison James Petipa, Nureyev/Glazunov: Raymonda Rebecca Bianchi, Friedemann Vogel Ashton/Rachmaninov: Rhapsody Lauren Cuthbertson, Cory Stearns Bournonville/Helsted: Flower Festival in Genzano Isabella Boylston, Alban Lendorf Cranko/Tchaikovsky: Onegin Ivanov/Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake ('White Swan')Svetlana Lunkina, Evan McKie Petipa, Gorsky/Minkus: Don Quixote Jurgita Dronina, Francesco Gabriele Frola Balanchine/Tchaikovsky: "Diamonds" Sofiane Sylve, Carlo Di Lanno Petit/J. Strauss Jr: La Chauve-sourisRebecca Bianchi, Friedemann Vogel Coralli, Perrot/Adam: Giselle Mathilde Froustey, Carlo di Lanno Petipa, Cecchetti/Delibes: Coppélia Bournonville/Løvenskiold: La SylphideJurgita Dronina, Francesco Gabriele Frola Fokine/Saint-Saëns: Dying Swan Hannah Fischer Balanchine/Tchaikovsky: Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux Isabella Boylston, Alban Lendorf MacMillan/Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Lauren Cuthbertson, Cory Stearns Lacotte/Pugni: The Pharaoh's Daughter Svetlana Lunkina, Ruslan Skvortsov Défilé http://www.sonycentre.ca/calendar-event-details/?id=291 Edited February 15, 2017 by volcanohunter Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 I'm having trouble linking to the Facebook video, but it appears that owing to Mathilde Froustey's foot injury (reported by Froustey herself on Instagram), her place will be taken by Sofiane Sylve. Sylve and Carlo di Lanno will perform duets from "Diamonds" and Ashton's Cinderella. It also appears that Jurgita Dronina and Francesco Gabriele Frola will perform the pas de deux from La Sylphide rather than Coppélia. That's almost a shame since La Sylphide has been seen in Toronto more recently than Coppélia, although Bournonville is always a very nice thing. Not too many seats left at this point. Link to comment
kbarber Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 almost ANYTHING has been performed in Toronto more recently than Coppelia, last seen 20 years ago. I don't know what the NBOC has against it. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 That's such a pity. I love everything about Coppélia. After Erik Bruhn's production premiered in the mid 1970s, it went to the Met, it toured western Canada, and it was performed fairly regularly in Toronto. Less happily, I seem to recall that Vanessa Harwood gave her last performance in the ballet when she was put out to pasture against her will. Likewise for Kim Lightheart, when she was sacrificed in the prime of her career to balance the company budget. Perhaps Dronina and Frola went digging in the wardrobe department and found that the costumes were too fragile to be used. Time for a new production, then. Want to start a petition? Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) The gala was great fun and, I think, a great success. Its artistic aims were substantial, too, excepting the Don Quixote pas de deux, which was a circus, but that's the nature of the beast. Otherwise it was an evening of serious artists performing their choreography seriously. The capacity crowd--the Sony Centre can accommodate 3,200 spectators--was extremely partial to the hometown team from the National Ballet of Canada. A gala of contemporary ballet is promised in the autumn. The somewhat less serious bows: Edited February 18, 2017 by volcanohunter Link to comment
Helene Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 That sounds wonderful... Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 The next gala is scheduled for Saturday, 28 October 2017. Link to comment
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