Diana Vishneva Gala Performance programme — Mariinsky Theatre, 23rd June 2011
PART I
Errand into the Maze
one-act ballet
Music: Gian Carlo Menotti
Choreography: Martha Graham
Staging at the Mariinsky Theatre: Miki Orihara
Sets: Isamu Noguchi
Costumes: Edythe Gilfond
Lighting: Jean Rosenthal
Performed by Diana Vishneva and Ben Schultz
PART II
Melody (performed to a recording)
Music: Antonín Dvořák
Choreography: Asaf Messerer
Performed by Olga Smirnova and Sergei Strelkov
Russkaya
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Kasian Goleizovsky
Performed by Svetlana Lunkina
Lament (performed to a recording)
Music: Caroline Worthington
Choreography: Dwight Rhoden
Performed by Desmond Richardson
The Dying Swan
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns
Choreography by Mauro de Candia
Performed by Vladimir Malakhov
Pas de deux from the ballet Diamonds
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: George Balanchine
Staging: Karin von Aroldingen, Sarah Leland, Elyse Borne and Sean Lavery
Scenery: Peter Harvey (1967)
Costumes: Karinska (1967)
Recreations of costumes supervised: Holly Hines
Original lighting: Ronald Bates
Lighting: Perry Silvey
Performed by Alina Somova and Andrian Fadeyev
Pas de deux from the ballet Lady of the Camellias
Music: Frédéric Chopin
Choreography: John Neumeier
Costume design: Jürgen Rose
Lighting: John Neumeier (Reconstructed by Ralf Merkel)
Piano – Lyudmila Sveshnikova
Performed by Diana Vishneva and Roberto Bolle
PART III
Pas de deux from the ballet Cinderella
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky
Costume design: Elena Markovskaya
Lighting: Gleb Filshtinsky
Performed by Yevgenia Obraztsova and Alexander Sergeyev
Pas de deux from the ballet Three Point Turn
Music: David Rosenblatt
Choreography: Dwight Rhoden
Costume design: Isabel Rubio
Lighting design: Antonio Marques
Performed by Diana Vishneva and Desmond Richardson
Pas de deux from the ballet Giselle
Music: Adolphe Adam
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Performed by Yekaterina Osmolkina and Semyon Chudin
Pas de deux from the ballet Without
Music: Frédéric Chopin
Choreography: Benjamin Millepied
Costume design: Benjamin Millepied
Lighting design: Vladimir Lukasevich
Piano: Lyudmila Sveshnikova
Performed by Anastasia Matvienko and Konstantin Zverev
Adagio from the ballet Spartacus
Music: Aram Khachaturian
Choreography: Leonid Yakobson
Costumes: Valentina Khodasevich
Choreography revived: Vyacheslav Khomyakov
Performed by Sofia Gumerova and Ilya Kuznetsov
Pas de deux from the ballet Le Parc
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj
Costume design: Hervé Pierre
Lighting: Jaques Chatelet
Performed by Diana Vishneva and Vladimir Malakhov
Fang yi shu is the greatest graham dancer. I am surprised that she wasn’t invited to perform for a season with the Graham Company. I have heard from a very reliable source connected with the Graham Company that Diana, herself, contacted the Graham Company.
It takes many years to train a graham dancer. It took a long time for the enormously gifted Alicia Graf to learn the Horton and Graham technique when she joined Alvin Ailey. Alicia Graf was a classically trained dancers. She will be performing St. Petersburg at the beginning of July with the Ailey Company.