Jun 15, 2024
Doors: 6:00 pm
Show: 7:00 pm

BALLET BLOCKBUSTERS

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Tickets: $37 - $87
Audience: 3+ recommended
Duration: 2 hours (including 20-minute intermission)
Location: First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W Spokane Falls Blvd, Spokane, WA 99201 Get directions

Most iconic works in ballet all in one night!

Our Master of Ceremonies, the fan-favorite Jester from Swan Lake opens the evening off with a bang.

We are joined by superstar ballerina Tiler Peck and fellow principal dancer Roman Mejia of the New York City Ballet who will dance George Balanchine’s show-stopping Tchaikovsky Pas de deux. See the performances of Aaron Robison of San Francisco Ballet, Ekaterina Malkovich of WBC, Rasmus Alghren of Boston Ballet, and many more!

Selections such as the seductive Black Swan Pas de deux and the iconic bedroom pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet give audiences a taste of the very best that ballet has to offer. Tragic stories such as The Dying Swan and Giselle are juxtaposed by Don Quixote which will light up the stage.

A must-see evening, performed by some of the leading dancers of our time.

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Program

Jester from Swan Lake 
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Performed by Constantine Geronik (World Ballet Company)

Black Swan Pas de Deux from Swan Lake
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Performed by Aviva Gelfer-Mundl (Los Angeles Ballet) & Rasmus Ahlgren (Boston Ballet)

Grateful (LOCAL SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION)
Music by Frédéric Chopin and Oscar Redding
Choreography by Mimi Ewers
Performed  by Molly Pitts, Kimberleigh Smith, Abigail Trudel, Eli Waunch, Maddie Wilson (students of Ballet Arts Academy)

The Tango
Music by Orquesta Tipica Andariega
Choreography by Konstantin Khlebnikov
Performed by Ekaterina Malkovich & Maxim Vlas (World Ballet Company)

Blake Works
Music by James Blake
Choreography by William Forsythe
Performed by Sasha De Sola & Aaron Robison (San Francisco Ballet)

Spring Waters
Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Choreography by Asaf Messerer
Performed by Makiko Miyasho and Maxim Vlas (World Ballet Company)

Suite Etta 
Music by Etta James
Choreography by Alonzo King
Performed by Adji Cissoko and Shuaib Elhassan (Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet)

Gypsy Dance from Don Quixote
Music by Ludwig Minkus
Choreography by Alexander Gorsky
Performed by Angelina Zgurskaya (World Ballet Company)

Tarantella
Music reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay
After music by John Philip Sousa
Choreography by George Balanchine
© The George Balanchine Trust
Music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Performed by Kate Inoue & Marcos Ramirez (Los Angeles Ballet)

Dying Swan
Music by Camille Saint-Saëns
Choreography by Mikhail Fokin
Performed by Andrea Lassakova (former principal dancer of Mikhailovsky Theatre)

Suite from Cinderella 
Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography by Marina Kesler
Performed by Ekaterina Malkovich, Constantin Geronik, Angelina Zgurskaya, Ekaterina Lukianova, Makiko Miyasho (World Ballet Company)

Intermission

Serenity (LOCAL SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION)
Music by Franz Liszt
Choreography by Olga Loktev
Performed by Olga Loktev, Tanna Harrison, Keala Quisano, Drew Hilbrich, Celeste Bidwell Williams (students of Company Ballet School)

Variation from Paquita (LOCAL SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION)
Music by Édouard Deldevez
Choreography by Marius Petipa
Performed by Reagan DeRuyter (Company Ballet School student)

Waltz No. 7 from Les Sylphide
Music by Frederic Chopin
Choreography by Mikhail Fokin
Performed by Ekaterina Lukianova & Maxim Vlas (World Ballet Company)

El Choclo
Music by Angel Villoldo
Choreography by Yuri Lapsha
Performed by Constantine Geronik (World Ballet Company)

Prelude in E Minor (LOCAL SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION)
Music by Frédéric Chopin
Choreographed and Performed by Company Ballet School student Olga Loktev

Black Swan Variation from Swan Lake (LOCAL SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION)
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich
Performed by Tanna Harrison (Company Ballet School student)

Dance of the Little Swans from Swan Lake
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Performed by Angelina Zgurskaya, Ekaterina Lukianova, Ekaterina Malkovich, Makiko Miyasho (World Ballet Company)

Epilogue Pas 
Music composed and performed by Jason Moran
Choreography by Alonzo King
Performed by Adji Cissoko and Shuaib Elhassan (Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet)

Pas de Deux from Diamonds
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust Performed by Sasha De Sola & Aaron Robison (San Francisco Ballet)

Light Rain
Music by Douglas Adams and Russ Gauthier
Choreography by Gerald Arpino
Performed by Andrea Lassakova (former principal dancer of Mikhailovsky Theatre) & Fabrice Calmels (former principal dancer of Joffrey Ballet)

Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux 
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust 
Performed by Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia (New York City Ballet)

Grand Finale 

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