21.02.2013
The Company’s Touring Plans
The ballet company of the Mikhailovsky Theatre has a number of tour dates scheduled for this spring. Preparations for the London leg of the tour are well underway: it will start in a month and run for two weeks, from 26 March to 7 April. This will be the company’s third time performing on the stage of the London Coliseum: the Mikhailovsky Ballet made a name for itself here during its 2008 and 2010 tours. This time, along with Don Quixote, Giselle, and the rarely performed Laurencia, the touring repertoire will also feature compositions by Nacho Duato for the first time, including Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness, a choreographic homage to Johann Sebastian Bach. The ballet is one of Duato’s best known works, and has been hailed by Russian theatre critics as “a true triumph”. In addition, there will be an evening of one-act ballets. For the London programme, the choreographer chose the ballet Without Words, set to music by Franz Schubert, and two compositions from Duato’s St. Petersburg period — Nunc Dimittis and Prelude — created specifically for the Mikhailovsky Theatre. Presented as a set, these ballets, differing in their tonality and content, provide a striking, multifaceted impression of Nacho Duato’s acclaimed creative style. The touring programme will feature Mikhailovsky Ballet stars Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev, and Leonid Sarafanov, and Guest Principal Dancer Polina Semionova.
On 23 and 24 April, the company will perform in Germany. The invitation to Germany was extended by Artistic Director of the Bayerische Staatsballett Ivan Liška. He fell under the spell of Nacho Duato’s The Sleeping Beauty, and suggested the idea of presenting it in Munich soon after its premiere in December 2011. Nacho Duato’s name is well known to Bavarian theatregoers: he used to work with the Bayerische Staatsballett, and his productions met with a very warm response. According to German critics, “Munich is eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Mikhailovsky Theatre ballet, which previously gave an extraordinary performance with a star cast on the stage of the Bayerische Staatsoper.”
A brand-new destination for the company is the Platonov Arts Festival, the largest cultural forum in Russia outside of Moscow. In its third year, the festival will once again take place in Voronezh, combining four areas: music, theatre, visual arts, and literature. The creative partners of the Platonov Fest include the Chekhov International Theatre Festival, the Golden Mask National Theatre Festival, The State Tretyakov Gallery, The Multimedia Art Museum, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, The Institute of World Literature, and the Goethe-Institut. According to the organizers, the main programme will include a number of acclaimed masterpieces, which have received the broad recognition and high esteem of professional critics. On 10 and 11 June, the dancers will present a programme of Nacho Duato’s one-act ballets, Duende, Nunc Dimittis, and Prelude, on the stage of the Voronezh State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
On 23 and 24 April, the company will perform in Germany. The invitation to Germany was extended by Artistic Director of the Bayerische Staatsballett Ivan Liška. He fell under the spell of Nacho Duato’s The Sleeping Beauty, and suggested the idea of presenting it in Munich soon after its premiere in December 2011. Nacho Duato’s name is well known to Bavarian theatregoers: he used to work with the Bayerische Staatsballett, and his productions met with a very warm response. According to German critics, “Munich is eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Mikhailovsky Theatre ballet, which previously gave an extraordinary performance with a star cast on the stage of the Bayerische Staatsoper.”
A brand-new destination for the company is the Platonov Arts Festival, the largest cultural forum in Russia outside of Moscow. In its third year, the festival will once again take place in Voronezh, combining four areas: music, theatre, visual arts, and literature. The creative partners of the Platonov Fest include the Chekhov International Theatre Festival, the Golden Mask National Theatre Festival, The State Tretyakov Gallery, The Multimedia Art Museum, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, The Institute of World Literature, and the Goethe-Institut. According to the organizers, the main programme will include a number of acclaimed masterpieces, which have received the broad recognition and high esteem of professional critics. On 10 and 11 June, the dancers will present a programme of Nacho Duato’s one-act ballets, Duende, Nunc Dimittis, and Prelude, on the stage of the Voronezh State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
