Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 2015-16 season with Moscow Festival Ballet's double bill of one-act ballets on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 8pm. The program begins with a restaging of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, set to the music of Tchaikovsky and choreographed by legendary Bolshoi principle dancer Elena Radchenko. This will be followed by Alberto Alonso's fiery Carmen, inspired by Bizet's sensuous and spirited opera.
Moscow Festival Ballet's 2016 spring tour of Romeo and Juliet will feature Maria Kluyeva, Maria Sokolnikova, and Olga Gudkova sharing the role of the ill-fated Juliet, with her star-crossed lover Romeo double-cast with Nurlan Kinerbaev and Dmitry Sitkevich.
Created especially for celebrated Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, Carmen features a score by Plisetskaya's husband, Rodion Shchedrin, with choreography by Alberto Alonso.
Casting includes Maria Klyeva, Alexander Daev, Denis Onufriychuk, Evgeniy Rudakov , and Elena Khorosheva, with Olga Sharikova, Malika Tokkozhina, Hanna Zimovchenko, and Daria Lednikova in the role of the Tobacco Girls.
Natalia Dagenhart of the Chicago Tribune, who saw the Ballet perform at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn last month, described the Moscow Festival Ballet's current tour as a must see for any modern day dance enthusiast:
"Once again, the members of this great organization demonstrated to an American audience all the uniqueness and beauty of famous Russian ballet, which is considered to be the best ballet in the world."
Tickets for the Moscow Festival Ballet's March 5, performance at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College cast between $36-45.
To get yours today head on over to the Brooklyn Center's official website or call the box office at (718) 951-4500.
