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Boston Ballet

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Boston Ballet follows its Kennedy Center Ballet Across America III engagement with a mixed repertory program featuring works by George Balanchine, Jirí Kylián, and Petr Zuska.

Jun. 3 - 5, 2014
Opera House
$25.00 - $89.00

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Boston Ballet
Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director

with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Mixed Repertory
Progam to include:
D.M.J. 1953–1977 (Zuska/Dvorák, Martinu, and Janácek)
Bella Figura (Kylián/Foss, Pergolesi, Marcello, Vivaldi, and Torelli)

"This company, it seems, can do almost anything."
--The Boston Globe

"One of the few eminent companies to promote choreographic innovation as an end in itself"
--The New York Times

Founded in 1963 as New England's first professional repertory ballet company, Boston Ballet is one of two companies celebrating its 50th anniversary during the 2013–2014 season. A participant in the Kennedy Center's Ballet Across America celebrations in 2008 and 2013, Boston Ballet now takes over the Opera House stage for a full engagement of its own, highlighting the breadth of the company's artistic range.

Among the works presented will be D.M.J. 1953–1977 by renowned Czech choreographer Petr Zuska. This passionate and tragic exploration of star-crossed love, yearning, isolation, and death is titled after the initials of three great Czech composers--Antonin Dvorák, Bohuslav Martinu, and Leos Janácek--whose music is featured in the work.

Boston Ballet will also perform Bella Figura by Jirí Kylián, another acclaimed Czech-born choreographer. Praised as "a gorgeous flourish of staging, costuming, lighting, and daring theatrics" by the Boston Herald, the work increasingly confines its nine dancers with opening and closing curtains, displaying Kylián's inventive combination of lyricism and comedy set to music by several Baroque composers.

Please note: Bella Figura contains upper body female nudity.