ronny Posted May 25, 2002 Share Posted May 25, 2002 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. Link to comment
Roma Posted May 26, 2002 Share Posted May 26, 2002 Apparently Putin requested that Shemyakin's "Nutcracker" be presented during Bush's visit, so that's what they saw. Link to comment
ronny Posted May 26, 2002 Author Share Posted May 26, 2002 OK, thanks. That would have been nice for them since they are probably familiar with the nutcracker. Wouldn't mind seeing that myself! Link to comment
Kevin Ng Posted May 26, 2002 Share Posted May 26, 2002 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 Link to comment
BalletNut Posted May 27, 2002 Share Posted May 27, 2002 Apparently KQED, the SF PBS affiliate, has decided not to air the Diamond Project Gala... Link to comment
Alexandra Posted May 27, 2002 Share Posted May 27, 2002 That's an outrage! Protest! Email! Write letters! Link to comment
ronny Posted May 27, 2002 Author Share Posted May 27, 2002 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. Link to comment
K2356 Posted May 30, 2002 Share Posted May 30, 2002 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 !!!!! Link to comment
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