Key events in the second half of the Company's jubilee season
In 2017 Eifman Ballet celebrates its 40th anniversary. A series of events in the second half of the 2016–2017 season will be dedicated to this date. The premiere of the new choreographic version of the ballet Russian Hamlet (May), a big North American tour (May–June), a series of performances at the Bolshoi Theatre Historic Stage (July) are among them. We present an overview of the Company’s creative plans for January–July 2017.
January
January 12–15 – Helsinki, Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA and Rodin
Performances will be held at the Finnish National Opera and become the first appearance of Eifman Ballet in Helsinki for the last 4 years. Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA, premiere of the previous season, will be performed abroad for the first time ever.
January 18–31 января – shooting of the screen ballet Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA
Eifman Ballet continues creating screen versions of its current repertory. Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA will be the sixth screen ballet for the last seven years. Boris Eifman will be the Production Director. Yury Shaygardanov, one of the most authoritative Russian cinematographers, who is known for many popular films (Heart of a Dog by V. Bortko is among them) will act as the Director of Photography.
February
February 7 – Riga, Rodin
February 10 and 11 – Parma, Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA
February 18 and 19 – Tallinn, Rodin and Eugene Onegin
March
March 6, 7, 22, 23, 27 – performances at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg (Red Giselle, Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA and Anna Karenina)
The first Eifman Ballet’s series of performances in St. Petersburg in 2017. The Company will present to premieres of the 2015–2016 season – Red Giselle (March 6 and 7) and Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA (March 22 and 23). On March 27 Anna Karenina, the production that remains one of the most popular performances in Eifman Ballet’s repertory, will be danced.
Mid March – tour in Ural (planned cities of the tour – Ufa and Yekaterinburg, the repertory to be announced)
April
April 26 – premiere of the new choreographic version of the ballet Russian Hamlet at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
During the last several years Boris Eifman is reviving and refining his famous ballets set in 1990s and stepped off the stage. Russian Hamlet was created in 1999. About five years ago the production dropped out the Company’s repertory. In the year of the Eifman Ballet’s 40th anniversary the connoisseurs of dance will see the premiere of the rethought ballet dedicated to the tragic figure of Prince Paul, the future Paul I of Russia.
May
May 11 – the start of the big North American tour with the ballets Red Giselle and Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA (the first performance will take place in Toronto); further and till the end of the month – next following performances in Toronto, Minneapolis, Chicago and Boston
The North American tour will last till June 25 and become one of the central events of the jubilee 40th season of Eifman Ballet. The new version of Red Giselle will be premiered in Canada. The same production (together with Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA) to be presented in the United States.
June
June 1–25 – the second part of the North American tour (New York, Costa Mesa, Los Angeles)
July
July 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 – performances at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg (Russian Hamlet, Eugene Onegin, Anna Karenina, Beyond Sin, Rodin, Up & Down)
July 16–31 – the season in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theatre Historic Stage with the ballets Russian Hamlet, Eugene Onegin, Rodin, Beyond Sin, Up & Down and Anna Karenina
For the first time in its contemporary history Eifman Ballet will give a two-week series of performances at the major venue of Russia. Nearly entire current repertory of the Company will be presented to the capital spectators. Moscow performances will crown the 40th season, but the celebration of the Eifman Ballet’s anniversary will continue this autumn.