St. Valentine's parade of stars.[NY] Some of the world's best dancers are coming to New York State Theater The New York State Theater is part of New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. The theater occupies the south side of the main plaza (at Columbus Avenue & 63rd Street) that it shares with the Metropolitan Opera House and Avery Fisher Hall (home of the New with Stars of the 214 Century Gala. The gala's 10th anniversary celebration falls on St. Valentine's Day St. Valentine’s Day (February 14) day of celebration of love. [Western Folklore: Leach, 1153] See : Love , and love scenes and wedding pas de deux pas de deux (French; “step for two”) Dance for two performers. A characteristic part of classical ballet, it includes an adagio, or slow dance, by the ballerina and her partner; solo variations by the male dancer and then the ballerina; and a coda, or abound. The Maryinsky Ballet's Diana Vishneva and Andrian Fadeev (above) perform the balcony duet from Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. . When Vishneva is onstage, with her overwhelming presence and exuberant temperament, you can expect the unexpected. Fadeev will show us true St. Petersburg-style elegance and vigor. Lucia Lacarra and Cyril Pierre from Munich Ballet, and Eleonora Abbagnato and Alessio Carbone of Paris Opera Ballet will dance duets by Roland Petit that rarely make it stateside. The list of stars goes on: Svetlana Lunkina and Sergei Filin of the Bolshoi; Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg of The Royal Ballet; Alexandra Ansanelli of New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. ; Angel Corella, Xiomara Reyes, and Herman Cornejo of American Ballet Theatre. See www.starsofthe21stcentury.com. |
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