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American Ballet Theatre’s Paloma Herrera in <i>Swan Lake</i> (Rosalie O'Connor)

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American Ballet Theatre

The haunting Giselle, the enchanting Swan Lake, and Michel Fokine masterworks make for two weeks of spectacular dance.

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About the Program

Artists:
A living national treasure since its founding in 1940, American Ballet Theatre has created a tradition of unsurpassed passion, athleticism, and originality. Over two weeks, ABT offers the best of its repertoire from the company's first decade-including the timeless favorite Giselle, ABT's "richly attractive and superbly atmospheric" (The New York Times) production about the story of a lovely yet fragile maiden, whose death from a broken heart dooms her to eternally roam the earth as a restless spirit. The company also brings back Kevin McKenzie's staging of Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky's spellbinding ballet of dreamlike transformation, mistaken identity, and ill-fated love. For its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in 2000, the Washington Post called it "a spectacle of shimmering light that builds in force until its most luminescent moment-the moonlit entrance of the enchanted Princess Odette." ABT's third program will feature four famous ballets created by Michel Fokine for the Ballets Russes: Les Sylphides and Le Spectre de la Rose, both danced by ABT in the 1940s, plus Polovtsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor and Petrouchka.

PLEASE NOTE: The Emmy Award-winning PBS series "Dance in America" is videotaping the Feb. 8, 10, and 12 evening performances of Swan Lake for future broadcast on "Great Performances." It will subsequently be shown on television networks around the world and in other media, including home video. Your attendance at this performance is deemed your consent to appear.

Accompanied by the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

PROGRAM SCHEDULE & PRINCIPAL CASTING
Running Times
Running Time: 2 hrs 5 mins
(includes one 20-minute intermission) 		Running Time: 2 hrs 10 mins
(includes two 20-minute intermissions) 		Running Time: 2 hrs 9 mins
(includes one 20-minute intermission)
TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
MATINEE		 SATURDAY
EVENING		 SUNDAY
MATINEE
Feb. 1
7:30pm		 Feb. 2
7:30pm		 Feb. 3
7:30pm		 Feb. 4
7:30pm		 Feb. 5
1:30pm		 Feb. 5
7:30pm		 Feb. 6
1:30pm

GISELLE
Kent, Carreño, Abrera

GISELLE
McKerrow, Stiefel, Wiles
GISELLE
Ferri, Bocca, Part
FOKINE
MASTERWORKS

LES SYLPHIDES
Murphy, Beloserkovsky,
E. Cornejo, Riccetto
PETROUCHKA
Stiefel, McKerrow, Gomes
LE SPECTRE
DE LA ROSE
H. Cornejo, Reyes
POLOVTSIAN DANCES
Saveliev, Abrera, Copeland
FOKINE
MASTERWORKS

LES SYLPHIDES
Kent, Gomes , Abrera,
Kajiya

PETROUCHKA
Corella, E. Cornejo, Stappas
LE SPECTRE
DE LA ROSE
Tidwell, Riccetto
POLOVTSIAN DANCES
Radetsky,
C. Corella, Hidalgo
FOKINE
MASTERWORKS

LES SYLPHIDES
Murphy, Beloserkovsky,
E. Cornejo, Riccetto
PETROUCHKA
Stiefel, McKerrow, Gomes
LE SPECTRE
DE LA ROSE
H. Cornejo, Reyes
POLOVTSIAN DANCES
Saveliev, Abrera, Copeland
GISELLE
Herrera, Carreño,
C. Corella
Feb. 8
7:30pm		 Feb. 9
7:30pm		 Feb. 10
7:30pm		 Feb. 11
7:30pm		 Feb. 12
1:30pm		 Feb. 12
7:30pm		 Feb. 13
1:30pm

SWAN LAKE
Murphy, Corella
SWAN LAKE
Herrera, Bocca
SWAN LAKE
Murphy, Corella
SWAN LAKE
Kent, Carreño
SWAN LAKE
Wiles, Beloserkovsky
SWAN LAKE
Murphy, Corella
SWAN LAKE
Part, Gomes

NOTE: Schedule and casting subject to change

All events and artists subject to change without prior notice.

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Additional Resources

About the Kennedy Center A New America: The 1940s and the Arts Festival

About the Kennedy Center Ballet Series

Cast and Company

Company:
American Ballet Theatre

Reviews and Articles

Review - "ABT's 'Romeo And Juliet': A Man's World"
The Washington Post - Washington, DC (Feb. 6, 2006) "…a vibrant Renaissance world." Read More...
Review - "ABT's Antiwar Movements"
The Washington Post - Washington, DC (Feb. 2, 2006) "American Ballet Theatre opened its engagement at the Kennedy Center Opera House on Tuesday night with a rewarding repertory program of unusual depth, and something rarer still: a political statement." Read More...
Review - "Fanciful in La Mancha: Cheeky Young Lovers"
The New York Times New York, NY (Feb. 27, 2007) "...the stage reverberated with performances recalling the now nearly lost art of old-style ballet comedy and character dancing. " Read More...
Review - "This Swan is Worth a Gander"
Washington Post, Feb. 10, 2005 Read More...

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