Bolshoi & Royal Ballet Performances Begin This Weekend
June 22, 2012
As part of its "Ballet in Cinema" series, Emerging Pictures and
Cinemark Theatres to present six ballets in 50 Cinemark Theatres
across the country beginning this weekend and running through
August. The ballets will serve as prelude to Cinemark offering the
full slate of Emerging's "Ballet in Cinema" and "Opera in Cinema"
alternative arts programming in the fall.
Emerging Pictures and Cinemark will present three ballets each
from Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet and London's Royal Ballet, both
recognized as among the foremost of the world's ballet companies.
The ballets being presented are: "The Bright Stream," "Raymonda"
and "Le Corsaire" from the Bolshoi, and "La Fille Mal Gardée," "The
Sleeping Beauty," and "Romeo and Juliet" from the Royal Ballet.
Each of the ballets will be presented twice. (See below for
performance dates.)
Dates for the ballets are as follows:
June 24 and 26 Le Corsaire - Bolshoi Ballet
Music by various composers
Choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Alexei Ratmansky &
Yuri Burlaka
July 8 and 10 Romeo and Juliet - Royal
Ballet
Music by Prokofiev
Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan
July 22 and 24 The Bright Stream - Bolshoi
Ballet
Music by Shostakovich
Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky
July 29 and 31 The Sleeping Beauty - Royal
Ballet
Music by Tchaikovsky
Choreography by Marius Petipa, with add'l choreography by Anthony
Dowell, Christopher Wheeldon & Frederick Ashton
August 12 and 14 La Fille Mal Gardée - Royal
Ballet
Music adapted by John Lanchberry from Hérold
Choreography by Frederick Ashton
August 26 and 28 Raymonda - Bolshoi Ballet
Music by Glazunov
Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich
A full list of participating Cinemark locations, advance ticket
purchases and showtime information, click
here! Let us know if you're planning to attend and what
event!
