The Eighth Annual
Mariinsky Festival
By Catherine Pawlick
Mariinsky Theatre
St. Petersburg, Russia

Opening Night
March 13, 2008
Opening night of the Eighth Annual International Mariinsky Festival provided a cozy retreat from drizzle and near-freezing temperatures in chilly St. Petersburg this time of year.
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"Swan Lake" with Murphy & Fadeev
March 17, 2008
The arguably intriguing arrangement of six sequential “Swan Lakes” during this year's Mariinsky Festival began on Saturday night when Mariinsky principal dancer Diana Vishneva appeared alongside Igor Kolb who replaced the initially advertised Herve Moreau of the Paris Opera Ballet.
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"Swan Lake" with Rojo & Kolb
March 20, 2008
On Thursday, the Mariinsky Theatre experienced a treat when the Royal Ballet's celebrated Tamara Rojo joined Igor Kolb in the fifth “Swan Lake” of this festival.
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Compañia Nacional
de Danza
Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco

'Gilded Goldbergs,' 'Gnawa,' and 'Por Vos Muero'
by Annie Berger -- Feb 23, 2008
Nacho Duato's distinctive European dance company, Compañia Nacional de Danza, made its San Francisco debut February 20 th through the 24 th at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The company's athleticism, energy, and outstanding technique sparked an enthusiastic response from much of the sold out house.
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'White Darkness,' 'Castrati,' and 'Rassemblement'
by Becca Hirschman -- Feb 20, 2008
San Francisco houses numerous dance companies, but we don't have anything quite like Compañía Nacional de Danza. Led by artistic director and choreographer Nacho Duato, the company's amazingly talented dancers hail from all over the world and what they brought to the Yerba Buena stage last night was something I've never experienced.
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Forum Flash
Royal Danish Ballet Diary

Kate Snedeker reports from Copenhagen: March 25 - April 13, 2008
The Royal Danish Ballet has bid farewell to one of their greatest dancers, and bid welcome to their next artistic director. It's fair to say that while this was his last dancing performance, Nikolaj Hübbe's proper farewell to the stage was several months ago in New York City. This evening was more of a welcome - a warm greeting to the next artistic director...

With Silja Schandorff as his Sylphide, and Sorella Englund returning to be his Madge, Nikolaj Hübbe took to the stage for the final time as a dancer. When he returns to the stage, it will be - at long last - as director of the company where he trained, danced and taught.it was the emotion that counted

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