Preview: The Kirov Ballet.This month Chicago gets its first visit from the Kirov Ballet Kirov Ballet, one of the two major ballet companies of Russia, the other being the Bolshoi Ballet. In 1991 it was officially renamed the St. Petersburg Maryinsky Ballet; however, on its frequent tours abroad it is still called the Kirov Ballet. in 16 years. This great Russian company will be doing what it does best: Swan Lake Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое Озеро, Lebedinoye Ozero, Swan Lake . Two of today's most beguiling ballet stars, Diana Vishneva Diana Vishneva (b. 1976) is a principal ballerina with both the Kirov Ballet in Russia and American Ballet Theatre in the United States. She was born in St. Petersburg and was trained at the Vaganova Choreographic Institute and upon her graduation in 1995, joined the company of the and Svetlana Lopatkina, will dance Odette/Odile. And the Kirov orchestra is on hand, so if you splurge for a ticket, you will get the full experience--the majestic strains of Tchaikovsky, the liquid Russian port de bras port de bras n. The technique or practice of positioning and moving the arms in ballet. , and the suffering Russian heart. Nov. 1-5 at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, Chicago; 312.902.1500, www.auditoriumtheatre.org. |
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