Hazardous Play

We are not card-players, there will be no cards in the ballet. The meaning of the original title which we have kept may be interpreted as follows: to dance to music by Stravinsky is always a bit of a gamble - how not to lose count. To compose a ballet for Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya’s birthday is even more of a gamble. We will go for broke!

Alexei Ratmansky

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"Choreographic abstraction "In the Upper Room"- the embodiment of entire American: victorious confidence in itself and impregnable perseverance, passion for records and capability to assimilate any culture, usual readiness for the hard work and some of separately devil-may-care independence. In the 40- minute mad Marathon of thirteen soloists, dressed as the famous designer Norma Kamali in the striped guard house haute couture, they are obligated to demonstrate the miracles of technology and plastic freedom. Strictly adjusted chaos of composition, artists, who jump out it seems immediately from all sides, stunning puantnaya and buckle classics, jazz sving, Black step, aerobika and acrobatics, mixed in the raciest proportions and intensified by trance electronics Glassa... "

"For this 40- minute ballet, which consists of nine swift parts, not burdened by subject, are necessary two desperate ballerinas even eleven soloists both floor, prepared for any risk. Storming age-old America, large relies on its fearless young people and not less fearless public".

Tatiana Kuznetsov "Kommersant" "and "Kommersant-Weekend"

World premiere: 13 February 2007, Borshoi Theatre, Moscow

Detailed information will be announced later.