Another chance to see this exciting performance by the great Russian ballet company. Acclaimed by audiences and press after seven weeks in the UK they returned to London's riverside Battersea Park to give a week of shows in a huge specially-built tent. They dance:
Les Sylphides with prima ballerina and Spartacus Act 2 with the brilliant young
Irek Mukhamedov in the title role, Natalya Bessmertnova as his wife Phrygia, Aleksei
A ballet with choreography by YURI GRIGOROVICH to music by KHACHATURIAN. Divertissements
Pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty with Nina Ananiashvili and Leonid Nikonov.
Dance of the Indian Dolls from The Nutcracker with Maria Zubkova and Alexander Valuyev. Solor's variation from La Bayadere with Mikhail Tsivin.
Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake with Nina Semizorova and Aleksei Fadeyechev. Adagio from
The Golden Age with Natalya Bessmertnova and Irek Mukhamedov.
Spring Waters pas de deux with Maria Bylova and Leonid Nikonov.
Grand pas from Don Quixote with Lyudmila Semenyaka and Yuri Vasyuchenko. Artistic director and chief choreographer
YURI GRIGOROVICH
Conductor
Alexander Kopylov Orchestra of London leader ROLF WILSON
Produced by COLIN NEARS
Directed by JOHN VERNON (R)
(The Bolshoi Ballet appeared by arrangement with the Entertainment Corporation Concerts and Arts)