The Novosibirsk Ballet Company at Theatre du Chatelet, July 7th-24th 2010

SUMMER DANSE IN PARIS – LES ETES DE LA DANSE in Paris is this summer presenting the famouse Russian ballet company Ballet from Novosibirsk at Theatre de Chatelet with 4 different programs and 18 performances.

It all opens July 7th with a Galla evening with invited guests from some of the worlds leading ballet companies:

Ashley BOUDA, New York City Ballet, Agnes Letestu, Opera National de Paris, Jose Martinez, Paris Opera, Olesia Novikov, Mariinsky Theatre, Leonid Sarafanov, Mariinsky Theatre, Polina Semenov, Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Ulbricht, New York City Ballet, Ivan Vasiliev, the Bolshoi Theatre, and Igor Zelensky and The Soloists and Ballet Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Novosibirsk

The Galla evevning is followed by a

Balanchine program including: SERENADE-APOLLON-WHO CARES?

The Swan Lake, Music: Peter Tsjaikovsky

. Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (Igor Zelensky review), Sets and costumes: Luisa Spinatelli (new production).

La Bayadere, Music: Ludwig Minkus, Choreography: after Marius Petipa. (Vladimir Ponomarev and version Vakthang Chabukiani, with additions by Konstantin Sergeev and Nikolai Zubkovsky – Review of Igor Zelensky), Sets: David Monavardisashvilli, Costumes: Alexander Vasiliev, is finishing it all with the last performances July 24th.

You can read about all the program at: www.lesetesdeladanse.com/

Established in July 2005, the festival was in the minds of its organizers, both to enrich Paris during the summer of a major event dedicated entirely to dance, offering fans of quality entertainment, and finally allow an audiences to see an art too often restricted to a circle of insiders.

After the first five editions, devoted to the San Francisco Ballet in 2005 at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2006 and 2009, the National Ballet of Cuba in 2007 and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 2008, it is clear that the Festival has found its audience, French and foreign, and it addresses a real need. Also, we are very pleased to submit herewith the program of the sixth edition, that of July 2010, host in the framework of the France-Russia cross-Year 2010, The Novosibirsk Ballet, which will be in Paris ( for the first time since 1967), with 3 programs and a Galla evening.

Dates of festival:

Wednesday 7 to Saturday, July 24, 2010

The Novosibirsk Ballet Company is composed of 100 dancers, one of the most important forces in Russia after Moscow’s Bolshoi and the Mariinsky of St Petersburg. Since its inception (1945), she began touring extensively (25 countries visited), but it is the first time she performed in Paris since 1967.

The dancers are from the school Novosibirsk Ballet School in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Among them, there are 13 awards in international competitions (Moscow, Perm, Lausanne, Varna and Paris).

The principal soloists are Anna Zharov (winning the “Golden Masks”), Natalia Eshova, Roman Polkovnikov, Ivan Kusnetsov, Anna Odintsov, Tatyana Gorokhova Elena Lytkina and Maksim Grishenkov.

The company’s first tour abroad was in China (1957). It has also visited Portugal, Spain, Japan, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Bulgaria, Cuba, Taiwan, Egypt, Germany, the Netherlands, the South Korea and Thailand.

The Summers of Dance in Paris will thus allow the discovery to the general public of this prestigious company.

Igor Zelensky, artistic director of The Novosibirsk Ballet.

Igor Zelensky was born (in 1969) in the province of Krasnoyarsk (Siberia). Graduate School of Dance Tbilisi (Georgia) where he worked with Chaboukiani Vakhtang (1910-1992), he has been perfected at the Vaganova School in St Petersburg. artistic director of Ballet Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Novosibirsk in 2006
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Renowned for his technical virtuosity and his gift of interpretation of the major classical roles, Igor Zelensky is also involved in contemporary creations.

Igor Zelensky is “Emeritus Artist of Russia” (2000), “People’s Artist of Russia” (2008), and received the “Award Baltica” (2001), the “Golden Mask” (2009) and the “Grand Prix Novosibirsk (2009).

Novisibirsk is with the 2.6 million inhabitants, the capital of Siberia, the third largest city in the Russian Federation. Located between the Urals and the Pacific, it is among the major industrial centers, scientific and cultural country

Kulturkompasset shall be present and write from some of the performances.