The 19th International ballet dancing art festival named after Rudolf Nureyev opens here on Wednesday. It is deicated to the 75th anniversary of the birth of the Flying Dutchman, as the ballet dancing world referred to the great ballet dancer for his unsurpassed performing skills, ITAR-TASS reports.
The opening ceremony will begin with the laying of flowers at the bas-relief of Nureyev on the facade of the Bashkir state opera and ballet theater. An exhibition of Bashkir artists' pictures dedicated to the life and creative activity of Rudolf Nureyev has been arranged in the theater's Hermitage Hall. An experimental exhibition of photos, called Enchantment, by Ufa-based photographer Oleg Menkov and choreographer Rinat Abushakhmanov will open in the theater's Greek Hall.
Marina Lugovaya, director of the literary and drama part of the Bashkir state opera and ballet theater, has told Itar-Tass that the theatrical week will begin with a GAUDEAMUS-Gala concert of Ufa ballet stars. On the second day, a "Sinfonie in balletto" performance is to be presented by an Italian troupe of Liliana Cosi to the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Alexander Skriabin, Joannes Brahms, and Ferencz Liszt. The Italian ballet dancers will continued their performances on the next day as well. They will present a two-act ballet "Tchaikovsky". Both performances have been staged in the modern choreography of Marinel Stefanescu.
On April 21, audiences will watch a "Dancing Pallette of Russia" – a two-part ballet dancing art soiree. In the first part, the Russian Chamber Ballet "Moscow" will give a performance "Edith Piaf: I do not Regret Anything" after the motifs of Simone Berto's book " Edith Piaf" to music by Alfred Shnitke, Meredith Monk, and to Piaf's songs. In the second part, a gala concert will be given with the participation of the winners of prestigious international competitions.
The festival's programme includes perfomances which constitute the golden stock of the world's choreography – Baydere and Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus, Adolph Adam's Giselle, the perfomance in which Rudolf Nureyev used to radiant.
Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service
