Pennsylvania Ballet winds up its season of Angel Corella's new Don Quixote this weekend. If you haven't seen it, try to get to this fine production. It's too bad that the company is unable to bring it to NYC at the end of this month, but we are excited to see whatever they are bringing to the Joyce Theater from March 29 through April 3.
Pennsylvania Ballet's next season in Philly will include: Ben Stevenson's Cinderella; Balanchine's Square Dance, Western Symphony, Nutcracker, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, Sylvia Pas de Deux, and Tarantella; Nacho Duato's Remanzo; Wheeldon's Rush; David Dawson's The Third Light; and world premieres by Matthew Neenan, Nicolo Fonte, and Brian Sanders; and of course, Corella's new Le Corsaire. Haglund can't wait to renew his subscription.
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The Moscow Festival Ballet will be at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts at Lehman College in The Bronx this Sunday at 4:00 pm with its full length production of Sleeping Beauty - one performance only. Founded in 1989, the troupe is directed by former Bolshoi Ballet soloist Sergei Radchenko and is under Columbia Artists Management which keeps them seemingly ever present in North America. Haglund would definitely be in The Bronx on Sunday were he not in Philly.
This company may not be the Bolshoi or Mariinsky but most of the dancers came out of the great schools in Russia that turn out outstanding classical artists of the highest standard. Seeing Moscow Festival Ballet's Sleeping Beauty is a great way to spend an afternoon without having to spend a whole lot of cash. Tickets are $25-$45 and kids 12 & under get in for $10.
Purchase tickets either by calling the Lehman Center ticket office at 718-960-8833 or online http://lehmancenter.org/events/sleeping-beauty-2016/ .
Here's a promo video for Moscow Festival Ballet's Sleeping Beauty – and what a lovely Lilac Fairy and Aurora. Note that the prince wears the original modesty shorts. There is strong, strong evidence of attention to detail in this extended clip:
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