ASTANA BALLET GALA

The Great Steppe Heritage
The Great Steppe Heritage programme includes choreographic miniatures, telling amazing stories of the Great steppe. Each piece of the programme are distinguished by the richness of folk traditions, versatility, and a huge emotional charge.

Love Fear Loss
ballet in one act
Music: Edith Piaf, Charles Dumont, Jacques Brel
Choreography: Ricardo Amarante

Cleopatra’s Triumph
(Fragment from the ballet Cleopatra)
Music: Maurice Ravel
Choreography: Nikolay Markelov
Costume Designer: Anna Yakushchenko

The ballet Cleopatra is a story about a little-known period in life of the Egyptian queen, when being attracted by power she begins to fight for the throne. Nikolay Markelov’s Cleopatra is a spectacular show with great inner energy. Maurice Ravel’s music, graceful and at the same time magnificent costumes with rich embroidery, transforming props, and the original dance pattern create a magical and attractive space, where everything is unique and at the same time as old as the world.

The concert features the Mikhailovsky Orchestra

The programme is subject to change