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Happy to see that aside from some selections with Lopatkina, energetic spitfire Martinouk will also be featured!

Ticket purchases and program: http://www.bam.org/dance/2016/a-tribute-to-maya-plisetskaya-program-d?alttemplate=mobileevent&date


White Adagio from Swan Lake
Performed by Uliana Lopatkina and Andrey Ermakov
Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
Revised choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Maria and Vaslav adagio from The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (1934)
Performed by Ekaterina Osmolkina and Maxim Zyuzin
Choreography by Rostislav Zakharov
Music by Boris Asafyev

Melody (1949)
Performed by Uliana Lopatkina and Andrey Ermakov
Choreography by Asaf Messerer
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Balcony pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet (1940)
Performed by Maria Shirinkina and Vladimir Shklyarov
Choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky
Music by Sergei Prokofiev

Pas de deux from Giselle
Performed by Ekaterina Osmolkina, and Maxim Zyuzin
Choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (1841)
Revised choreography by Marius Petipa (1884)
Music by Adolphe Charles Adam

Excerpt from Act III of The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (1934)
Performed by Uliana Lopatkina, Maria Shirinkina and Roman Belyakov
Choreography by Rostislav Zakharov
Music by Boris Asafyev

Excerpt from Carmen Suite (1967)
Performed by Uliana Lopatkina, Andrey Ermakov, and Roman Belyakov
Choreography by Alberto Alonso
Music by Rodion Shchedrin after Georges Bizet

Excerpt from Laurencia (1939)
Performed by Ekaterina Osmolkina, Maxim Zyuzin, Valeria Martinuk, and Alexei Popov
Choreography by Vakhtang Chabukiani
Music by Alexander Crain

Pas de deux of Mekhmeneh Bahnu and Ferkhad from The Legend of Love (1961)
Performed by Uliana Lopatkina and Andrey Ermakov
Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich
Music by Arif Melikov

Pas de deux from Don Quixote
Performed by Valeria Martinuk and Vladimir Shklyarov
Choreography by Marius Petipa (1869)
Revised choreography by Alexander Gorsky (1900)
Music by Ludwig Minkus

La Rose Malade (Death of the Rose) (1973)
Performed by Uliana Lopatkina and Andrey Ermakov
Choreography by Roland Petit
Music by Gustav Mahler

The Dying Swan (Film, 1905)
Performed by Maya Plisetskaya
Choreography by Michel Fokine
Music by Camille Saint-Saëns

The Dying Swan (1905)
Performed by Uliana Lopatkina
Choreography by Michel Fokine
Music by Camille Saint-Saëns

I can count the number of times I have seen Lopatkina on one hand and to say that I am very much looking forward to this program--in which she is drawing from a varied repertory--would be a decided understatement. The presence of several other very fine dancers on the program is more than icing on the cake.

Alas, it's wee-bit touch-and-go as to whether or not I can make it, but I have a ticket, have set the travel plans in motion, and altogether plan to do my utmost to be there!

Drew, let us know how it is....for your sake I hope you can go!

In the New York Times, Alastair Macaulay reviews the Thursday, February 25, 2016 performance of the tribute to Maya Plisetskaya at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

NY Times

I did make it for the final program which I thought was wonderful in many ways--first and foremost for the range we saw from Lopatkina: joy, despair, desire, otherworldliness; comedy, villainy, tragedy. Really pleased I had the privilege to be there. She is also extraordinary in the complete seamlessness of her dancing in each separate piece. And in the complete way she inhabits each one.

But also what wonderful dancers Lopatkina brought with her. Obviously she has great rapport with Yermakov -- but the other men were all excellent, dancing with freedom and intensity. Shirinkina was lovely in Fountain of Bachisarai especially and I could not get over how joyful and free Martynyuk was in the adagio from Shurale. I'm not sure excerpts always successfully honor choreography -- but this program was very pleasurable.

Glad you made it (and liked it)

Drew likewise I really enjoyed reading your impressions. Yes Ermakov and Lopatkina are a good pair (size-wise, chemistry-wise) on stage. I also particularly love Martynyuk, she is such a lovely dancer. I do wish the program had been done elsewhere in the US as well but at least New Yorkers got a chance to see some spectacular dancing!