London Coliseum to Host Tribute to Anna Pavlova
The Russian Ballet Icons Gala 2012, a grand gala evening in honour of Anna Pavlova will be held on the 4th March on the stage of the English National Opera in London.
The gala’s artistic directors are Wayne Eagling, Artisitic Director of the English National Ballet and the Royal Ballet’s David Makhateli. It will feature famous excerpts from Pavlova’s greatest roles such as Paquita, The Pharaoh’s Daughter, Le Roi Candaule, Giselle, La Bayadére and The Sleeping Beauty as well as classical and contemporary dedications, performed by a dazzling international cast of lead dancers from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, Royal and English National Ballet, ballets of the Grand Opera Paris and Berlin Staatsoper and the Ballet of Monte Carlo.Pavlova’s legendary qualities will be explored further through rare video fragments played during the Gala, and in a photo exhibition held at the Coliseum on the day of the show. The contribution that the great ballerina made to ballet around the world is inestimable and especially in England. Ashton and Helpmann were inspired by her and Ninette de Valois once said that she wished she had joined her company. A number of her company’s former dancers became teachers at the Royal Ballet School and elsewhere in England. For much of her life Anna Pavlova toured the world with her own company but kept a home in London, at Ivy House. The unique series of Russian Ballet Icons galas have been organised by Ensemble Productions annually for the last seven years. Every gala is built around a legendary name from the Russian ballet world to be a multimedia experience, combining performances by the best living masters of ballet with the history of the genre through one of the great icons of the Russian ballet stage. Previous galas have given tribute to Maya Plisetskaya (2006), Yury Grigorovich (2007), Maris Liepa (2008), Sergei Diaghilev (2009), Rudolf Nureyev (2010) and Galina Ulanova (2011). This year the Russian Ballet icons Gala celebrates the life and career of the great Anna Pavlova and is organised in association with Anna Pavlova House and will launch the Anna Pavlova Festival.
Source: www.russianballeticons.com, www.dancetabs.com
Josef Bartos
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