CANCELED

THE MOSCOW STANISLAVSKI BALLET

LAURENT HILAIRE, company director

RUSSIAN TEMPS/DANSE

TYLL
Alexander Ekman, choreography

VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF BIZET
Vladimir Bourmeister, choreography

NOCES
Angelin Preljocaj, choreography

With the dancers of the Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet
Recorded music

ABOUT THE SHOW

For many years, the Moscow Stanislavski Ballet has been a flagship institution cultural life in Moscow. Vladimir Bourmeister, one of the company’s emblematic figures, who was director of the ballet for nearly thirty years, is well known to Parisians after choreographing a version of Swan Lake in the early 1960s which remained the reference for the Paris Opera before Rudolf Nureyev’s.

Two years ago, the famous principal dancer Laurent Hilaire took over the artistic direction of the Moscow company – the first Frenchman to run a Russian company since Marius Petipa. A talented and award-winning artist, former iconic dancer of the “Nureyev Generation”, choreographer and accomplished ballet master, Laurent Hilaire caused a sensation in his first season as artistic director. He led a true artistic revolution by immediately utilising the repertoire of Serge Lifar, William Forsythe, George Balanchine and Paul Taylor, while still preserving the classical heritage of this 120-dancer troupe

For these Paris performances, he will exhibit the energy of his dancers with a mixed program combining a historical piece by Vladimir Bourmeister, a pajama party by the young Russian Andrey Kaydanovskiy – prolific and imaginative choreographer on the Moscow scene – before closing the evening with Tyll, by Swede Alexander Ekman whose ingenuity is well established.

Transcendanses is a coproduction from Productions Internationales Albert Sarfati and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées