Kings of the Dance

Kings of the Dance was a four night dance extravaganza starring:

Johan Kobborg, The Royal Ballet, London
Nikolay Tsiskaridze, The Bolshoi Ballet

And guest stars:

Alina Cojocaru, The Royal Ballet, London

Gudrun Bojesen, The Royal Danish Ballet

Kings of the Dance had its premiere February 23, 2006 at New York City Center.

The program consisted of:

Flemming Flindt’s The Lesson (La Leçon) (1963) to music by Georges Delerue
Christopher Wheeldon's FOR 4 (pièce d'occasion) (2006) to Franz Schubert's Death and the Maiden

New York premiere solos:

Afternoon of a Faun, (Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune) made by Tim Rushton on Johan Kobborg to the music of Claude Debussy
Wavemaker, made by Nils Christe on Ethan Stiefel to music by John Adams
We Got It Good, made by Stanton Welch on Angel Corella to music by Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington
Carmen, made by Roland Petit to the music of George Bizet, danced by Nikolay Tsiskaridze

Kings of the Dance was co-produced by Ardani Artists and Segerstrom Center for the Arts in February 2006, Sergei Danilian, Producer

Sergei Danilian produced four more programs under title of the Kings of the Dance with different set of dancers including David Hallberg, Marcelo Gomes, Guillaume Cote, Ivan Vasiliev,

Denis Matvienko, Leonid Sarafanov, Jose-Manuel Carreno, Joaquin De Luz, Roberto Bolle. Mr. Danilian presented Kings of the Dance project in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Rostov on Don, Krasnodar, Ufa), in Ukraine (Kiev, Odessa), in Latvia (Riga), in Estonia (Tallinn), Buenos Aires, London, Los Angeles as well as few times in New York.

Reviews

NY TImes, John Rockwell, February 23, 2006

Village Voice, Deborah Jowitt, March 3, 2006
Ballet.co Magazine, Anjuli Bai, February 2006

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.