In Marius Petipa’s classic ballet, “La Bayadere” (The Temple Dancer), a young maiden Nikia is murdered by her rival Gamzatti for the affections of a young warrior, Solor. Upon learning of the temple ...
On its eighth trip from Russia to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg’s stellar Mariinsky Ballet brought a work from the classical canon that’s dogged with a story many consider beyond ...
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Yuri Fateyev, the Mariinsky Ballet’s acting director, describes his two upcoming shows as “absolutely opposite productions in the same region.” The Russian dance company and orchestra formerly known ...
At the Music Center in Los Angeles, The Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg performed George Balanchine’s “Jewels.” In a very informative pre-performance lecture at the Music Center, journalist and ...
For the dancers of the Mariinsky Ballet, the unearthly demands of classical technique come easily: the elegant hypermobility, the suppleness, the pointework. Grace is their default mode. But when it ...
It’s as though both of Russia’s major ballet companies have been caught in the unyielding grip of a polar vortex. Bitter fissures have cracked through their elegant facades: Valery Gergiev, general ...
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