6.6.2018 Benois de la Danse Vivat Petipa!

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Program and Cast

Part 1

Jae Woo Lee (Korean National Ballet) in Fairy Carabosse’s variation from The Sleeping Beauty, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by Marcia Haydee

Drew Jacoby in Six fairies’ variations from The Sleeping Beauty Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by Drew Jacoby (Royal Ballet of Flanders)

Maria Kochetkova (San Francisco Ballet) and Ruslan Skvortsov (The Bolshoi Theatre) in Pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty, P. Tchaikovsky, choreography by Marius Petipa

Maria Vinogradova (The Bolshoi Theatre), Ivan Vasiliev and Denis Savin (The Bolshoi Theatre) in the excerpt from Faust (World premiere), to the music by Ch. Gounod, choreography by Ivan Vasiliev

Igone de Jongh and Daniel Camargo (Dutch National Ballet) in Dear One (World premiere), to music by Alexander Glazunov, choreography by Remi Wortmeyer.

Oksana Skorik and Xander Parish (The Mariinsky Theatre) in Pas de Petipa (World premiere), to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by Ksenia Zvereva

Polina Semionova (The Berlin State Ballet) and Ivan Zaytsev (The Mikhailovsky Theatre) in Pas de deux from Don Quixote, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky, new version by Victor Ullate

Part 2

Evgenia Obraztsova and David Motta Soares (The Bolshoi Theatre) in Grand Pas de deux from Giselle, music Adolphe Adam, choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa

Sofiane Sylve and Carlo di Lanno (San Francisco Ballet) in the duet from Swan Lake, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by David Dawson

Tatiana Melnik (Hungarian National Ballet) and Brooklyn Mack (The Washington Ballet) in Pas de deux from Talisman, music Riccardo Drigo, choreography by Marius Petipa

Lucia Lacarra and Josué Ullate (Victor Ullate Ballet) in the duet from Carmen, to music by G. Bizet, P. Navaretto, choreography by Victor Ullate

Natalia Osipova (The Royal Ballet London) and Jason Kittelberger (Eastman company) in the duet from Nutcracker, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by Sidi Larbi Sherkaoui

Angelina Vorontsova and Denis Rodkin in Grand Pas from La Bayadere, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky. Soloists Anastasia Denisova, Olga Kishneva, Ana Turasashvili, Viktoria Yakusheva, Karim Abdullin, Dmitry Efremov (The Bolshoi Theatre)

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