On Haglund's Calendar – YAGP Tribute to Vasiliev

It looks like the folks at YAGP have put together another extraordinary evening tribute to a great one!  Anyone within a light-year of Manhattan on Saturday, March 27th, who misses this will be sorry.  So, get to the NY City Center website or box office pronto!  Yeah, the tickets are a bit pricey, but that's why we always save the discount insert from the Fall for Dance Playbill – right?  20% off makes a big difference.

The 1976 photo below by A. Klushkina of Vasiliev and Maximova taken from the YAGP and City Center websites epitomizes where love of ballet and love for one another meet.  What an elegant, passionate, vibrant image.

According to the program currently published on the YAGP website, we are going to be treated to a stupendous program that will include opening comments by the legendary Carla Fracci, Mariinsky Ballet's Yevgenia Obraztsova in Vasiliev's Sentimental Walse, ABT's Veronika Part and Gray Davis in Vasiliev's Macbeth, dancers from Moiseyev, Ashton's Cinderella PdD by the Royal Ballet's Sarah Lamb and Sergei Polunin, Ashton's Dance of the Blessed Spirits by ABT's David Hallberg, and Polina Semionova, Daniil Simkin, Sarah Lane, Luis Ribagorda, Ashley Bouder, and then The Great One, himself, Vladimir Vasiliev, will perform a Piece d'Occasion with Daria Khokhlova.

We've come to expect last minute program changes at these galas, but the YAGP folks have never disappointed us.  We've also come to expect less than orderly audiences at these events, so Haglund will be practicing his shushing and Sit! all week long in preparation.

Don't miss this event!