XVII International Ballet Festival MARIINSKY30 March 2017 - 09 April 2017 SCHEDULE 30 March 2017 - 09 April 2017
Artistic Director of the
Festival – Valery Gergiev
The international ballet festival
is one of the most significant events in the ballet season, drawing
ballet-lovers from all over the world to St Petersburg. The main strategy of the
festival is to attract stars of world ballet to Russia’s cultural capital.
Regular participants in the festival include Mariinsky Theatre stars Diana Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alina Somova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Igor Zelensky, Leonid Sarafanov, Andrian Fadeyev and Vladimir Shklyarov. Since it was established,
the Mariinsky international ballet festival has seen performances by such
internationally acclaimed stars as Vladimir Malakhov, Agnes Letestu, Aurelie
Dupont, Mathieu Ganio (Opera National de Paris),
Roberto Bolle, Maria Kowroski, Manuel Legris, Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Paloma Herrera, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Svetlana Zakharova at the theatre. In line
with tradition, each festival opens with a ballet premiere and it concludes with
a gala concert featuring stars of international ballet.
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A premiere of the ballet Paquita will open the XVII International
Ballet Festival Mariinsky 2017
The XVII annual
international ballet festival will run at the Mariinsky Theatre from 30 March to
9 April 2017. In line with tradition the opening will see a premiere – Édouard Deldevez' Paquita with additional musical numbers
by Ludwig Minkus and Riccardo Drigo. Yuri Smekalov is working on the new production, while Marius Petipa's choreography of the Grand pas is being
reconstructed by Yuri Burlaka. The St Petersburg premiere of the ballet Paquita
in 1847 (a transfer of the Paris production at the Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre was
Marius Petipa's first work as a choreographer in Russia.
Having undergone several revivals, which saw the addition of individual dance
numbers, the ballet remained on the playbill for a long time. In the Soviet
period the full version of the ballet vanished from the repertoire – only the
bravura Grand pas was retained, to this day remaining a "jewel in the crown" of
ballet evenings.
The first performances will take place at the historic
Mariinsky Theatre on 30 and 31 March and 6 April. For the fifth year in a row the festival will present
projects of the Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers. Talented
choreographers, so well-loved by St Petersburg – Vladimir Varnava, Ilya Zhivoi and Maxim Petrov will present their joint production Dreamers to
music by the French group Daft Punk. The costumes, in a first collaboration with
the Mariinsky Theatre, are being created by acclaimed Russian designer Igor Chapurin. The cast of the workshop's participants will be
supplemented by American choreographer Garrett Smith, Brazilian dancer Guilherme
Maciel and Olga Vasilieva, winner of the young choreographers' competition as
part of the festival Context. Diana Vishneva (2016). Maxim Petrov will also present his second work Incantations
set to music by Alexander Rabinovich-Barakovsky (4 April, Mariinsky II).
Once again the festival will
host the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre. The guest company will be
performing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, staged by Alexei Miroshnichenko (5 April, Mariinsky Theatre).
The festival's playbill
will feature Mariinsky Theatre repertoire productions with guest dancers from
the Bolshoi Theatre and the Dutch National Ballet – Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev with choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky (1 April, Mariinsky II), La Bayadère by Ludwig Minkus staged by Marius Petipa and revised by Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani with individual dances by Konstantin
Sergeyev and Nikolai Zubkovsky (2 April, Mariinsky Theatre), Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus with choreography by Alexander Gorsky after motifs of the production by Marius Petipa (7 April, Mariinsky Theatre) and Jewels by George Balanchine to music by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Tchaikovsky (8 April, Mariinsky II).
On 9 April the XVII International Ballet Festival Mariinsky will
conclude with a Gala Concert, as part of which the company will present Anton Pimonov's new work, as well as a classical
Divertissement featuring lead Mariinsky Theatre dancers and guest stars
(Mariinsky II).
About "International Ballet Festival
MARIINSKY"
The international ballet festival is one of the most significant
events in the ballet season, drawing ballet-lovers from all over the world to St
Petersburg. The main strategy of the festival is to attract stars of world
ballet to Russia’s cultural capital. Regular participants in the festival
include Mariinsky Theatre stars Diana Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alina Somova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Igor Zelensky, Leonid Sarafanov, Andrian Fadeyev and Vladimir Shklyarov. Since it was established,
the Mariinsky international ballet festival has seen performances by such
internationally acclaimed stars as Vladimir Malakhov, Agnes Letestu, Aurelie
Dupont, Mathieu Ganio (Opera National de Paris),
Roberto Bolle, Maria Kowroski, Manuel Legris, Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Paloma Herrera, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Svetlana Zakharova at the theatre. In line
with tradition, each festival opens with a ballet premiere and it concludes with
a gala concert featuring stars of international ballet.
MARIINSKY BALLET FESTIVAL
2017: Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera and Ballet theatre | Mariinsky hall plan | Mariinsky Slide Show | Mariinsky 3D View | About Valery
Gergiev ARCHIVE: 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013
| 2012 |
2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002
SCHEDULE 30 March 2017 - 09 April 2017
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