Classical Ballet Diana Vishneva Ballet Gala World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - established 1783
Schedule for Diana Vishneva Ballet Gala 2022
Dancer: Diana Vishneva
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
The programme includes:
PART I Errand into the Maze one-act ballet Music: Gian Carlo Menotti Choreography: Martha Graham Staging at the Mariinsky Theatre: Miki Orihara Sets: Isamu Noguchi Costumes: Edythe Gilfond Lighting: Jean Rosenthal Production sponsor – Toshihiko Takahashi Performed by Diana Vishneva and Ben Schultz
PART II Melody (performed to a recording) Music: Antonнn Dvoшбk Choreography: Asaf Messerer Performed by Olga Smirnova and Sergei Strelkov
Russkaya Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Choreography: Kasian Goleizovsky Performed by Svetlana Lunkina
Lament (performed to a recording) Music: Caroline Worthington Choreography: Dwight Rhoden Performed by Desmond Richardson
The Dying Swan Music: Camille Saint-Saлns Choreography by Mauro de Candia Performed by Vladimir Malakhov
Pas de deux from the ballet Diamonds Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Choreography: George Balanchine Staging: Karin von Aroldingen, Sarah Leland, Elyse Borne and Sean Lavery Scenery: Peter Harvey (1967) Costumes: Karinska (1967) Recreations of costumes supervised: Holly Hines Original lighting: Ronald Bates Lighting: Perry Silvey Performed by Alina Somova and Andrian Fadeyev
The ballets of George Balanchine are presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and have been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style ® and Balanchine Technique ® established and provided by the Trust. The Mariinsky Theatre would like to express its gratitude to Mrs Bettina von Siemens for her support in bringing the Ballets of George Balanchine project to life.
Pas de deux from the ballet Lady of the Camellias Music: Frйdйric Chopin Choreography: John Neumeier Costume design: Jьrgen Rose Lighting: John Neumeier (Reconstructed by Ralf Merkel) Piano – Lyudmila Sveshnikova Performed by Diana Vishneva and Roberto Bolle
PART III Pas de deux from the ballet Cinderella Music: Sergei Prokofiev Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky Costume design: Elena Markovskaya Lighting: Gleb Filshtinsky Performed by Yevgenia Obraztsova and Alexander Sergeyev
Pas de deux from the ballet Three Point Turn Music: David Rosenblatt Choreography: Dwight Rhoden Costume design: Isabel Rubio Lighting design: Antonio Marques Performed by Diana Vishneva and Desmond Richardson
Pas de deux from the ballet Giselle Music: Adolphe Adam Choreography: Marius Petipa Performed by Yekaterina Osmolkina and Semyon Chudin
Pas de deux from the ballet Without Music: Frйdйric Chopin Choreography: Benjamin Millepied Costume design: Benjamin Millepied Lighting design: Vladimir Lukasevich Piano: Lyudmila Sveshnikova Performed by Anastasia Matvienko and Konstantin Zverev
Adagio from the ballet Spartacus Music: Aram Khachaturian Choreography: Leonid Yakobson Costumes: Valentina Khodasevich Choreography revived: Vyacheslav Khomyakov Performed by Sofia Gumerova and Ilya Kuznetsov
Pas de deux from the ballet Le Parc Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj Costume design: Hervй Pierre Lighting: Jaques Chatelet Performed by Diana Vishneva and Vladimir Malakhov
The ballet Errand into the Maze was created by the great American choreographer Martha Graham in 1947. Like several other of her productions, this ballet was based on an ancient Greek myth. She created a total of thirteen such ballets (which are often referred to as the “Greek cycle”, although Graham herself preferred to call them “pieces”). The ballet Errand into the Maze is a free interpretation in the language of dance of the story of Ariadne and the Minotaur’s labyrinth. The Minotaur is a beast with the body of a man and the head of a bull who was born to Pasiphaл, the wife of King Minos of Crete, and a bull sent to Crete by Poseidon. The King of Crete incarcerated the Minotaur in an underground labyrinth built by the legendary master architect Daedalus. The labyrinth was so complex that no-one was ever able to find his way out. Once every nine years Minos made a sacrifice of seven Athenian youths and girls to the beast. Theseus, son of King Aegeus of Athens, resolved to fight the Minotaur and thus free Athens from this terrible debt. Together with the other doomed young people he sets off for Crete, enters the labyrinth and defeats the beast. He was helped to get out of the labyrinth by Minos’ daughter and the Minotaur’s stepsister Ariadne. She gave Theseus a ball of string (“Ariadne’s thread”), which he unwinds in order to see the way back. Fleeing from her father’s rage, Ariadne secretly escapes from Crete with Theseus, but is abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos as he doesn’t want to take her to Athens. In another version, Dionysus, who falls in love with Ariadne, kidnaps her from Theseus. But the protagonist in Martha Graham’s ballet is not Theseus, rather it is Ariadne. It is she who enters the labyrinth and kills the Minotaur. “Ariadne’s terrifying ‘passage’ through the mysterious labyrinth, the Minotaur’s dances, the Minotaur and Ariadne’s erotic duet and skirmish and Ariadne’s return from the labyrinth – all of this was staged by Martha Graham with a supreme degree of skill and talent.” (Nina Alovert. Martha Graham, Great and Immortal)
Such great stars of world ballet as Makarova, Baryshnikov and Nureyev have performed with Martha Graham’s company and in her ballets, but her works have never before been staged in Russia.
Schedule for Diana Vishneva Ballet Gala 2022
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