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Printed from: http://petersburgcity.com/news/culture/2004/04/23/balanchine/ Culture news, 23.04.2004 14:26 Mariinsky Theatre celebrates Balanchine century![]() This interesting and diverse program, staged by John Clifford and Colleen Neary from the Balanchine Trust, follows the Mariinsky's success in 1999 with Balanchine's 1967 masterpiece "Jewels," which the company is performing this coming weekend on its tour to the Italian city of Turin. (Balanchine's work was first danced by the Mariinsky in 1989, and the company has been gradually staging more of his ballets under the present director Makhar Vaziyev.) These ballets provided many rewarding roles especially for the company's young talent who danced with relish Balanchine's masterly and endlessly inventive choreography, which still looks amazingly fresh after more than five decades. There were loud ovations from the audiences on both nights. This new Balanchine program marked another notable triumph for the Mariinsky Ballet, and would no doubt have pleased Balanchine, if he had been watching from heaven
News source: www.sptimes.ru
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