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City Ballet's resident choreographer, Elizabeth Rowe Wistrich, presents her own take on this extremely popular and dramatic song cycle and it has always been one of her most popular ballets. First created for American Festival Ballet in 1984, this ballet was re-choreographed for City Ballet in 1995 and was performed in 1998 and 2003.
This acclaimed ballet will be presented with the company premiere of the "Kingdom of the Shades" act from La Bayadere (music by Ludwig Minkus), with choreography by Marius Petipa. This ballet masterpiece will be elaborately staged with elegant new costumes. Joining City Ballet for these performances will be Evgeny Lushkin from Russia and Grigori Arakelyan from Armenia. These exciting male dancers are presently soloists with the Nevada Ballet Theatre and have performed all over the world.
"Carmina Burana," an audience favorite, is a theatrical ballet based on poems discovered in the library of an ancient Bavarian monastery. The thirteenth-century poems and songs, composed by minstrels and monks who had freed themselves of monastic discipline, were set to music by Carl Orff. The ballet is not a retelling of the poems, but rather an abstract depiction. The ballet is a sensual depiction of the poems, but is suitable for all ages.
"Kingdom of the Shades" from La Bayadere
Descend into Petipa's Kingdom of the Shades, where Prince Solor, a warrior, dreams of eternal love with his murdered lover Nikaya, a temple dancer. Music by Leon Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa (1877). This ballet is considered to be one of the truly great classical ballets of all time. -- www.cityballet.org
Posted February 28th, 2008 by ruzik_tuzik
