Hello. I have read that the Tchaikovsky Perm Ballet Theatre will be performing La Bayadere in San Jose, California in April 2003. I have searched the web for information about whether they will also be performing in southern California, but I have found nothing. I did check the web sites of the Orange County Performing Arts Center and the Music Center in L.A.
Does anyone have any information or suggestions?
Many thanks,
Glen

<small>[ 05 April 2003, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: Azlan ]</small>

Welcome to the board, GDickson, it's great to have you join us.

This company was in San Diego last April and was reviewed here:

Tchaikovsky Perm Ballet Theatre

The presenter was:

Hollywood International Management, Inc.

I just went to the site - if you click on the center picture (the word Perm is left out of the title) a short history of the company comes up as well as a listing of the repertoire. I looked for upcoming dates, but didn't see any. You could contact the presenter.

I hope this helps. I enjoyed the company very much, and you can see from the review.

Here is another thread with several more reviews by a number of people in case you are interested in reading it:

Perm State Ballet Comes to California

I have since received some further information:

PERM BALLET: Cerritos (So. Calif) off the freeway 91
FRI 4/4 La Bayadere
SAT 4/5 Swan Lake

I have no way of checking this information.

(Thank you, Milena!)

Perm Ballet will be performing "La Bayadere" and "Sleeping Beauty" at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts April 4 - 6 (Bayadere on the 4th and 6th, Beauty on the 5th). More information is available on the Center's website:

http://www.cerritoscenter.com

Hope this helps!
-art

Thanks to both of you for the very helpful information. We live in Lompoc, which is about 150 miles northwest of L.A., and we usually see ballet companies when they come to Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo. I had no idea that there was a large performing arts center in Cerritos!
Thanks again,
Glen

A brief preview:

<a href=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/06/PK36882.DTL target=_blank>A 'Beauty' seen by few</a>
Octavio Roca, SF Chronicle

A nice preview:

I just witnessed something in dance, and it has to do with this company. I hate to sound negative all the time but, these things drive me crazy. Perms company just came through Bakersfield and I went to see them do Swan Lake. The first act was very good and danced well by the two leads. She didnt really fit the "Odette" character, however I couldnt wait for her to come out as Odile because she had a certain fire that was nice. When the second act started to my surprise an entirely new couple came out as the leads, at first I thought to myself,"I hope no one got hurt backstage". These two were alright but didnt have what the first couple had. The third act came and guess what, another couple came with it. I could not believe my eyes. It then didnt matter to me if they were good or not. It used to mean something to a ballerina and in the dance world for someone to do that role. For it to become some tag team match just makes me sick. This is what I am talking about when I talk about quality in the dance "world" going down. Is it just because they are in a small town they think they can get away with no one knowing what it is or how it should be. Or is it the lack of respect shown from the director to the world about the great history of dance. We all talk about educating our audience,well if we cant even do the classics right, I just dont know what to say. Maybe someone can help me. I am not coming down on any type of schooling or style system in the world in this comment. Just trying to point out agian what is going on in the dance world. HELP!

That is bizarre, AC. I have never heard of anything like this! Does anyone know what's up with this tag-team type casting?

I know that in the old days sometimes one dancer played Odette and another played Odile. But I've never heard of Siegried being played by 2 (or more) dancers. Was this triple casting listed in the program? If so, I can only imagine that they did't do many performances, and wanted as many principals as possible to get exposure, but what a strange way to do it.

There was basically a list of the dancers next to each name of character. They had no "performance"cast list, I thought it was strange but oh well,I guess? What was sad was that afterward the people in the audience were talking about how good the ballerina was and so on and so on. They all thought it was the same person(s). Kinda funny though in a way I know a young guy who is an incredable choreographer and he trys the make everthing in his ballets have some meaning. I call him Tudor. But if people in an audience of a few hundred cant tell there are different people going onto the stage,(and for the record line and an obvious height difference was the give away for female and male leads)what does it matter if your hand, does or means this? As passionate as I am for this life obsession of mine I do have to laugh at it alot for these same reasons that makes me frustrated.

Would't it be funny if that really was the cast list, and every part on stage that night had several people performing it?

Catherine Pawlick has done a few very interesting interviews with artists from the Perm Ballet for Critical Dance:
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They're appearing in Cupertino this weekend at the Flint Center .

Well done Catherine. I'm seeing this company Friday night in Cupertino,CA.

Can't wait!

D