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Photo by Damir Yusupov
Film:
Ballet in Cinema: La Bayadère from the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow
Showtimes:
Sunday Mar 24 01:00 PM
Sunday Mar 24 06:00 PM
Location:
Doris Duke Theatre
Price:
Museum members: $20.00
General Admission: $25.00
About the Film:
210 mins (approx.) including 2 intermissions | Performed January 27, 2013
Marius Petipa’s seminal work La Bayadère was first performed at St. Petersburg’s Imperial Kamenny Theatre in 1877 in a grandiose production portraying a mysterious India and the impossible love between the sacred dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor. A scene from the ballet, known as The Kingdom of the Shades, is one of the most celebrated excerpts in all of classical ballet, and is considered to be one of the first examples of abstract ballet. Although a major work in Russian tradition, the ballet remained unknown in the West until the 1970s.
Special thanks to presenting sponsor Louis Vuitton
