The gala production Simbiosi was staged by the remarkable company 'Reunited in Dance', a star-studded ensemble of dancers impacted by the war in Ukraine.
Led by Xander Parish OBE, a former principal dancer at the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg, the company features Russian and Ukrainian dancers who were previously part of Russia’s most elite dance companies.
Simbiosi hopes to show that dialogue and reconciliation can still be found in dance and art.
PROGRAMME:
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, Rose Adagio
DANCERS: Joy Womack, Xander Parish, Boris Zhurilov, Oscar Frame, Oleksii Tiutiunnyk
Choreography by: Marius Petipa
Music by: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
GISELLE, Pas de Deux
DANCERS: Laura Fernandez, Vsevolod Maevsky
Choreography by: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot
Music by: Adolph Adam
BA//CH SOLO
DANCER: Oscar Frame
Choreography by: Ilya Jivoy
Music by: Johann Sebastian Bach
SWAN LAKE, White Swan Adagio
DANCERS: Kateryna Chebykina, Xander Parish
Choreography by: Lev Ivanov
Music by: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SCHEHERAZADE, Duet
DANCERS: Joy Womack, Oleksii Tiutiunnyk
Choreography by:Mikhail Fokine
Music by:Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
THE NUTCRACKER, Pas de Deux
DANCERS: Ganna Muromtseva, Boris Zhurilov
Choreography by: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Music by: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SPRING WATERS
DANCERS: Ganna Muromtseva, Boris Zhurilov
Music: Sergei Rachmaninov
Choreography: Asaf Messerer
SWAN LAKE, Dying Swan
DANCER: Kateryna Chebykina
ROMEO AND JULIET, Balcony Duet
DANCERS: Laura Fernandez, Vsevolod Maevsky
Choreography by: Leonid Lavrovsky
Music by: Sergei Prokofiev
BALLET 101
DANCER: Xander Parish
Choreography by: Eric Gauthier
Voiceover by: Eric Gauthier
SWAN LAKE, Black Swan Pas de Deux
DANCERS: Joy Womack, Boris Zhurilov
DON QUIXOTE, Pas de Deux
DANCERS: Kateryna Chebykina, Oscar Frame, Ganna Muromtseva
Choreography by: Marius Petipa
Music by: Ludwig Minkus
FINALE
ALL DANCERS
CONDUCTOR Gavriel Heine
ORCHESTRA SENZASPINE
VIDEO DESIGNER Tim Durant
LIGHT DESIGNER Orlando Bolognesi
For the full programme of the FESTIVALINO 2024