The U.S. project Ballet Royalty will debut in Cuba in a one-off performance in the Alicia Alonso Grand Theater of Havana’s García Lorca Hall, August 20, at 8:30pm.
According to the Cuban Ministry of Culture’s National Performing Arts Council (CNAE), the gala program includes pieces from Giselle, Don Quijote, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Flames of Paris, La Sylphide, and Le bourgeois, in addition to excerpts of other classical works and several contemporary creations.
The performance will be led by 12 of today’s most celebrated principal dancers: Ivan Vasiliev, Iana Salenko, Mathew Golding, Rodrigo Almarales, Joseph Gatti, Daniil Simkin, Jurgita Dronina, Misa Kuranaga, Maria Kochetkova, Semyon Chudin, Adiarys Almeida and Desmond Richarson.
The ensemble, from Russia, Germany, Japan, the United States and Canada, among other countries, features the lead figures from the American Ballet Theatre; Boston Ballet; San Francisco Ballet; Bolshoi, Kirov and Mijailovsky ballets in Russia; Royal Ballet and English National Ballet from the UK; Staatsballett Berlin and La Scala in Milan, Italy.
Organized by the CNAE in collaboration with Cincinnati based dance company Improvedance, the performance by Ballet Royalty will act as a prelude to the upcoming 25th International Ballet Festival of Havana, taking place October 28-November 6, 2016.
