Moscow Ballet�s Swan Lake

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Thursday, November 10th, 2016
7:00 PM

Moscow Ballet’s renowned company of 40 dancers performs the greatest ballet of all time Swan Lake on the 10th Anniversary Canadian Tour. “Brimful with feeling” says the New York Times and “Technically supreme dancing, dazzling moments,” from the Calgary Herald. Moscow Ballet’s traditional telling of the tragic Swan Lake story includes award-winning dancers, authentic costumes and lavish sets.

Moscow Ballet’s Swan Lake, one of the world’s most famous and beloved ballets, is performed to the cherished score by Pytor I. Tchaikovsky. The ballet features a moving sculpture garden where Russian passion governs in the statuesque bearing of the many male dancers, and the exquisite long lines of the women, all attacking each step with enviable Russian precision.

While the original version is more than four hours long, Moscow Ballet’s staging has been artfully edited to two Acts, yet it still manages to run the gamut of human emotion from elation to despair, purity to corruption, and melancholy to joy. Performances in Russia and Cuba often have happy endings and in this version the evil von Rothbart is vanquished and the loving couple head toward marital bliss.

The original Swan Lake ballet was based on a German myth, although legends of swan-maidens date as far back as ancient Greece. The ballet was first performed in Moscow in 1877 to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Moscow Ballet - In addition to Swan Lake, company repertory includes time-honored Russian ballets The Great Russian Nutcracker, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, and more. For over twenty years the company has performed 100 engagements annually in North America in a majority of the top twenty demographic markets. The company’s mission and national platform enables it to share the renowned Vaganova training with over 5000 local dance students annually in the “Dance with Us” program. “New Horizons - A Children’s Program for Life” is an intensive cultural immersion project that has benefits school children and on-going programs Musical Wunderkind, Master Classes and Summer Intensives have also touched the lives of many children and young adults. Moscow Ballet’s partnership with corporations and not-for-profit organizations over the past 24 years has raised awareness of and revenue for their significant missions and causes.

“Expansive… brimful with feeling ….elegantly generous” New York Times, Alastair Macaulay, Chief Dance Critic

“A truly excellent corps, a veritable highlight excelling in both synchrony and grace...outstanding all night,” Calgary Herald

Rows A-J $84.00 / K-W $73.50 / Balcony $53.50

Tickets at:
http://www.porttheatre.com/events/nov-2016/moscow-ballets-great-russian-swan-lake/