PRESS RELEASE
10th March 2010

Victor Smirnov-Golovanov’s MOSCOW CITY BALLET

It was a great surprise when Classical Events found advertising and promotion for a tour calling itself Le Plus Grands Ballets Classique using images of the dancers and the name of Moscow City Ballet.

Moscow City Ballet has recently finished a very successful eight week tour of the United Kingdom with sell out performances and has returned to Moscow. The company and dancers is not touring France at this time.

The ticket agent site for selling tickets (fnac france) responded to us immediately, explaining that producers and venues gave them the picture for events that fnac are selling. They confirmed they would remove the image immediately.

It is very likely that the venues on the tour and publicity already out is still claiming the forthcoming performances as Moscow City Ballet which will be misleading for the ticket buying public.

Classical Events are contacting all the theatres that we can find advertised and asking them to display a public notice that this company is not Moscow City Ballet and to tell the ticket buying public who the company actually is.

The tour venues we can find at present are :
Ultimate Alexpo Grenoble 13th March ; Neptune Palace Toulon 15th March ; Ardadium Annecy 16th March ; Micropolis Besancon 17th March ; Millesium Epernay 18th March ; Hall of Pubs Bar Le Duc 19th March ; Arena Metz 20th March ; Place des Arts, Rueil Malmaison; Palace de Congress Marseille 25th March ; Acropolis S Apollon Nice 26th March ; Palace of Congress Les Bains 27th March ; Bocapole Bressure 31st March ; Vinci Tours 1st April ; City of Congress Nantes 2nd April ; Congress Auditorium Angers 2rd April ; Palace of Congress Le Mans 5th April ; Casino Arras 6th April; Auditorium Amiens 7th April ; Zenith Arena Lille 8th April ; Gayant Expo Douai Cedex 9th April; Elispace Beauvais 10th April ; Casino de Paris Paris 11th April ; Minotaur Vendome 13th April ; Dial Evreux 14th April ; The Cube Parcs des Expos Troyes 15th April ; Zenith de Dijon Dijon 16th April ; PMC Erasmus Hall Strasbourg 17th April.

Gavin Roebuck
Press Agent Classical Events Ltd

Marina Rzhannikova -- Moscow City Ballet

She is a lady who seems to have slipped through the cracks of ballet appreciation and not really been much commented on over the years. Like so many wonderful ballerinas she has singular qualities, such as 'Statuesque Effervescence,' that make her distinctively magnificent.

It's really nice to see her mentioned in the press. She will be touring South Africa with the Moscow City Ballet.

"Rzhannikova, who is the prima ballerina for Stars of the Ballet Moscow....

"Rzhannikova is highly acclaimed in the ballet world, having won a prize and medal at the seventh International Ballet Competition in Moscow, and carries the title of Honoured Artist of Russia."

http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/news/speci ... -1.1154516
(posted at Ballet Alert)

There is a dvd that can be purchased of her "Swan Lake" with the Moscow Classical Ballet.

http://www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-Swan- ... B000HKDCK8