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World Ballet festival stars at Kremlin

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World Ballet festival stars at Kremlin


19.09.2018

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The VII International Kremlin Ballet Festival starts in two days in the State Kremlin Palace, TASS reports. The Kremlin Ballet theater conducts it for seven years.

According to theatre artistic director Andrei Petrov the key distinguishing feature of the festival is that the ballet stars from different countries participate the performances. The festival program includes the most famous names. Participants come from France, Germany, Norway, the United States. Many of them are the Russian ballet school followers.

This time the festival includes seven performances. The Kremlin premiere The Scarlet Flower will open the event. It was not chosen by chance: this year is the 160th anniversary of the Sergei Aksakov's fairy tale publishing.

Andrei Petrov is a choreographer. Only the Kremlin Ballet artists will appear on the stage, as well as in Cipollino. It will bring the festival to a close.

Laurette Samerkales from the Bavarian State Ballet will perform the title role in Esmeralda play. Soloists of the Mariinsky Theater Ekaterina Kondaurova and Timur Askerov will participate in La Bayadere. Paris Opera dancer Dorothea Gilbert will perform Giselle's role in this ballet. Polina Semionova will dance in Swan Lake. She represents the Berlin State Ballet. Maria Kochetkova from the Norwegian National Ballet and Daniil Simkin from the American Ballet Theater will perform the main roles in "Don Quixote".

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