Vaganova Ballet Academy Jubilee Gala 2018

In honor of the 280th anniversar y of the foundation of the Academy.

And bicentennial of Marius Petipa June 19, 2018. Bolshoi Theatre.

Academy Rector Nikolai Tsiskaridez

Academy Artistic Director Zhanna Ayupova

Orpheus Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Gavriel Heine

Part I
Performed by graduates and students of Vaganova Ballet Academy

PAS DE QUATRE FROM THE BALLET LE REVEIL DE FLORE
Music by Riccardo Drigo
Choreography by Marius Petipa, staged by Yuri Burlaka after Ivan Khlustin (2014)
Costume design by Vladimir Ponomarev

Performed by

Flore Alexandra Khiteyeva
Aurore Yulia Spiridonova
Diane Svetlana Savelieva
Hébé Maria Bulanova

PAS D’ACTION FROM THE BALLET LA NAÏADE ET LE PÊCHEUR
Music by Cesare Pugni
Choreography by Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa
Choreographic version by Nikolai Tsiskaridze (2018)
Costume design by Dmitry Paradizov

Performed by

Giannina Anastasia Nuikina
Matteo Marko Yuusela
Fishermen and girls – senior students of the VBA

DANCE OF THE HOURS FROM THE OPERALA GIOCONDA
Music by Amilcare Ponchielli
Choreography by Marius Petipa
Choreographic version and staging  by Nikolai Tsiskaridze (2018)
Costume design by Dmitry Paradizov

Performed by

Night Maria Khoreva
Day Mikhail Barkigiga
Hours of morning, day and evening students of senior classes

 

Part II
Performed by students of the leading ballet schools and academies of the world

GYMNOPEDIE
Music by Eric Satie
Choreography by Roland Petit
Performed by Accademia Teatro alla Scala Ballet School students (Milan, Italy)

Samuele Gamba, Letizia Masini, Daniele Bonelli
Teachers: Tatian Nikonova, Leonid Nikonov
Piano Yulia Safronova (Vaganova Ballet Academy)

PAS DE DEUX FROM THE BALLET LE CORSAIRE
Music by Riccardo Drigo, Yuli Gerber, Boris von Vietinghoff-Scheel
Choreography by Marius Petipa
New choreographic version and staging by Yuri Burlaka
Performed by students of Moscow State Academy of Coreography (Russia)

Medora Elizaveta Kokoreva
ConradDenis Zakharov
Teachers: Tatiana Galtseva, Denis Mrdvedev

VENETIAN CARNIVAL PAS DE DEUX FROM THE BALLET SATANELLA
Music by Cesare Pugni
Choreography by Marius Petipa
Performed by students of Korea National University of Arts (Seoul, South Korea)
Seonmee Park and Junyoung Yang
Teacher: Hyunwoong Kim

A SPELL ON YOU
new version
Music by Nina Simone
Choreography by Marco Goecke
Staging by Sarah Abendroth
Performed by John Cranco School students (Stuttgart, Germany)
Riccardo Ferlito, Victoria Hammond Chandler, Paolo Terranova, Kevin Georg Witzenberger
Teacher: Dimitri Magitov

PAS DE QUATRE FROM THE BALLET ABDALLAH
Music by Holger Simon Paulli
Choreography by August Bournonville
Performed by Royal Danish Ballet School
students Ditte Stoltenborg Baltzer, Emilie Willert
Palsgaard Jensen, Ludwig Christian Mikael Af Rosenborg, Victoria Maria Bell Hoegsted
Teacher: Linda Hindberg Enevold

SYMPHONIETTA
Music by Charles Gounod
Choreography by Asami Maki
Performed by New National Theatre Ballet School students (Tokyo, Japan)
Abe Sumika, Takuro Watanabe, Haruna Nakashima, Sonoka Tada, Akari Yosida, Satoshi Nakamura, Mone Okada, Kiara Parkinson
Akagi, Eri Takai, Yui Hattori, Kurumi Yamane, Yuna Yamauchi
Teachers: Takako Nishikawa, Sachiko Kato

Part III
Performed by Vaganova Ballet Academy students with participation of the Bolshoi Ballet dancers
Vaganova Ballet Academy graduates of the different year

GRAND PAS FROM THE BALLET PAQUITA
Music by Édouard Deldevez, Ludwig Minkus, Riccardo Drigo
Choreography by Marius Petipa (1881)
Choreographic version and staging by Yuri Burlaka, Nikolai Tsiskaridze (2017)
Costume design by Dmitry Paradizov

Performed by

Paquita Svetlana Zakharova
Luciend’Hervilly Denis Rodkin
and students of senior classes

Polonaise and mazurka performed by pupils of junior classes and students of senior classes

Variations performed by

Oscar Frame
2017 graduate (variation from the ballet Le Conservatorie, music by H.S.Paulli)

Eleonora Sevenard
2016 graduate (variation from the ballet Trilby, music by Y.Gerber)

Alyona Kovalyova
2015 graduate (variation from the ballet Le Roi Candaule, music by C.Pugni)

Egor Geraschenko
2016 graduate (variation from the ballet La Bayadere, music by L.Minkus)

Xenia Zhiganshina
2014 graduate (variation from the ballet Gretna Green, music by E.Guiraud)

Olga Smirnova
2011 graduate (variation from the ballet Paquita, music by L.Minkus)

Mikhail Lobukhin
2002 graduate (variation from the ballet Don Quixote, music by L.Minkus)

Yulia Stepanova
2009 graduate (variation from the ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse, music by C.Pugni)

Evgenia Obraztsova
2002 graduate (variation from the ballet Le Pavillon d’Armide, music by N.Tcherepnin)

Denis Rodkin
(variation from the ballet La Source, music by R.Drigo)

Svetlana Zakharova
1996 graduate (variation from the ballet La Sylphide, music by R.Drigo)

Vaganova Ballet Academy
Teachers rehearsed the production:
N.Tsiskaridze, Zh..Ayupova
Professors M.Vasilieva, T.Udalenkova, L.Kovalyova
Docents I.Sitnikova, A.Vasilieva, V.Sirotin, M.Zhelonkina,
E. Poryvkina, T. Solomyanko, Yu. Zaytseva, A. Ilyin, F.Miozzi, A.Ermolenko

Piano
Docent I. Tsaregdarskaya;
I/ Lysyak, E. Polkovaya, A. Time, L. Boroditskaya,
Yu. Safonova, I. Krymskaya, A. Loskushina, E. Slukina, V. Shestopalova,E.Bogaytseva,
Agranova, T. Filina, T.Kulikova, E. Dabdu