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SEGERSTROM HALLAugust 27, 2016

Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

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Support for the Centers International Dance Series provided by:

Audrey Steele Burnand Endowed Fund for International Dance

The Segerstrom Foundation Endowmentfor Great Performances

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents

DIANA VISHNEVA (Th e Mariinsky Ballet) NATALIA OSIPOVA (Th e Royal Ballet)

Victoria Brileva, Yulia Kobzar, Zlata Yalinich(Th e Mariinsky Ballet)

Marcelo Gomes (American Ballet Th eatre) Joaquin De Luz (New York City Ballet)

Friedemann Vogel (Stuttgart Ballet) Denis Matvienko (Th e Mariinsky Ballet)

Edward Watson (Th e Royal Ballet)

Maxim Zyuzin, Alexey Nedviga, Yuri Smekalov,Soslan Kulaev, Vasily Tkachenko, Denis Zainetdinov,

Yevgeny Konovalov, Andrei Arseniev(Th e Mariinsky Ballet)

Tomas Mock, Harry Churches (Th e Royal Ballet)Donald Th om (National Ballet of Canada)

Dimitri Dover (piano)

Production Supervisor: Michael Vool (Ardani Artists)Lighting Designer: Antonio Marques (Ardani Artists),

Alexander Naumov (Th e Mariinsky Th eater)Wardrobe Supervisor: Nadezhda Vasilieva (Th e Mariinsky Th eater)

Management: Andrey Gonyaev

Produced by Sergei Danilian, Ardani ArtistsIn association with Segerstrom Center for the Arts

About the ProgramACT I

ClayMusic by Darius MilhaudChoreography by Vladimir VarnavaLighting Designer Igor VintsCostumes by Irina VarnavaFirst performance: March 21, 2015, Mariinsky Theater as a part of the Project A Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers Performed byVictoria Brileva, Yulia Kobzar, Zlata Yalinich Maxim Zyuzin, Alexey Nedviga, Yury Smekalov

Running time: 20 minutes

P A U S E

ZeitgeistMusic by Philip Glass, Violin Concerto No 1 (1987)Choreography by Alastair MarriottLighting Designer Bruno PoetVideo Design Luke HallsCostumes by Jonathan HowellsFirst performance: July 17, 2015, London Coliseum (UK)Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by permission.

Performed byNatalia Osipova and Edward WatsonwithHarry Churches, Tomas Mock, Donald Thom Running time: 25 minutes

I N T E R M I S S I O N

ACT II

TristesseChoreography by Marcelo GomesInspired by French poet Paul luardMusic by Frederic Chopin (Etudes)Lighting Design by Antonio MarquesFirst performance: December 5, 2014, Mikhailovsky Theater as a part of the Project Kings of the Dance

Performed by Marcelo Gomes, Joaquin De Luz, Friedemann Vogel, Denis Matvienko Dimitri Dover (piano)

Running time: 30 minutes

P A U S E

Le Divertissement du RoiBallet in one act

Choreography by Maxim PetrovMusic by Jean-Philippe RameauBogdan Koloryoks scene planCostume Designer: Tatiana NoginovaLighting Designer: Konstantin BinkinFrench translation by Julia Montel

The designs make use of sketches by Jean Berain for productionsat the Royal Academy of Music in Paris (16791697) and by Lodovico Burnacini for Antonio Cestis opera Il pomo doro (Vienna, 1667)First performance: March 21, 2015, Mariinsky Theater as a part of the Project A Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers

Cast:The King Diana VishnevaMaster of Ceremonies Soslan Kulaev Vasily Tkachenko, Denis Zainetdinov, Yevgeny Konovalov, Andrei Arseniev

Spoken dialogue on page 4

Running time: 35 minutes

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Diana Vishneva Natalia Osipova Victoria Brileva Yulia Kobzar Marcelo GomesZlata Yalinich

Friedemann Vogel Joaquin De Luz Denis Matvienko Edward Watson Maxim ZyuzinSoslan Kulaev

Denis Zainetdinov Yevgeny Konovalov Alexey Nedviga Andrei Arseniev Tomas MockVasily Tkachenko

The Artists

Donald Thom Harry Churches Alastair Marriott Vladimir Varnava Maxim Petrov Dimitri Dover

1. Ballet des Baroques est un divertissement totalement original et sans prcdent dans ces nobles murs.

Sa Majest Le Roy, cet auguste Chevalier de la Danse, quil nous convient de nommer le Soleil du Thtre Mariinsky, sest alli avec Apollon et les Muses, et a appel au secours lHarmonie et les Gnies.

Il a os faire appel lombre de lincomparable Matre dantan, notre Rameau le Grand, afin de nous faire paratre des tableaux farfelus et htroclites et de nous livrer la Danse pure.

Oublions donc les sujets complexes et les dnouements sanglants des performances du pass et de lavenir !

Prtons lil et loreille de faon goter au plaisir de ce spectacle nouveau et trange !

2. Le Roy et ses sujets reprsentent les paysans galants qui chantent leur amour pour la belle bergre, et souffrent de la pruderie de cette cruelle.

En suite, nos beaux Acteurs prsentent lEntre des Jeux et des Plaisirscar que-ce quun vritable Ballet si ce ne sont les jeux ingnieux et sophistiqus de la force juvnile et le plaisir de les contempler ?!

Enfin le Roy revient sous lapparence de Capitaine hollandais, un grand amateur de rhum.

3. Le ballet du triomphe de Zphyr sur Bore.

Le Cruel Bore, le seigneur des Terres du Nord, menace de dtruire par son souffle de belles Roses.

Doux et intrpide Zphyr dfie Bore en combat singulier.

Cependant, le public devrait sattendre au dnouement poustouflant de leur duel, car nous sommes tous sous le pouvoir du rigoureux Bore, dieu de Saint-Ptersbourg.

4. Divertissement !

5. LEntre dArmide.

Armide, la magicienne, laquelle jet son charme envotant sur le glorieux chevalier Rinaldo et laquelle, aprs une longue suite de jours heureux, fut abandonne par ce perfide.

Armide danse la sarabande noble et captivante, en guise dadieux son amour.

Elle fait appel aux Dmons qui nous prsentent lEntre diabolique-ment complexe et labore.

Le Chaos sempare de lUnivers!

Au bonheur de tous, le plus digne de tous, notre auguste Roy, limage du Soleil apparat et rtablit nouveau la Paix et la Joie sur terre.

1. The Ballet of the Baroque Dancers is a truly original entertainment never seen before within these noble walls!

His Majesty the King, august Knight of the Dance, He, who we shall name here the Sun of the Mariinsky Theatre, forms an alliance with Apollo and the Muses, and calls Harmony and the Genii to his rescue.

He dares to summon the shadow of the incomparable Master of the Olden days, our Great Rameau, to present us with extravagant and eclec-tic scenes, beseeching us to put ourselves in the hands of Pure Dance.

Therefore, let us forget about tortuous plots and bloody endings of enactments pasts or yet to be!

Let our eyes and ears taste the delights of this new and astonishing spectacle!

2. The King and his subjects represent the genteel peasants singing their love to the fair shepherdess and suffering because of her so cruel prudery.

Then, our fair Actors present the Beginning of the Games and Pleasuresbecause, what is Ballet, if not dexterous and fanciful Games of juvenile strength for us to contemplate with pleasure?!

Finally, the King comes back in the guise of a Dutch Captain, great lover of rum.

3. Ballet of the Triumph of Zephyrus over Boreas.

Cruel Boreas, Lord of the Northern Lands, threatens to puff and destroy beautiful Roses.

Gentile and fearless Zephyrus defies him to a single fight.

However, the spectators should already know how this breath-taking duel will end, for we are all under the domination of harsh Boreas, god of Saint-Petersburg.

4. Amusement!

5. Entrance of Armida

Armida, the enchantress who bewitched glorious knight Rinaldo and who, after spending so many blissful days with him, was abandoned by the scoundrel.

Armida dances this noble and captivating sarabande as a farewell to her Lover.

She calls upon the Demons, who will present the Entrance in a devil-ish, tortuous and elaborate manner.

Chaos takes hold of the Universe!

To everyones elation, the most dignified among us, our august King, appears as the Sun does and restores Peace anew and Joy over the earth.

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Spoken Dialogue for Le Divertissement du Roi

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Diana Vishneva Dancer Diana Vishneva was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). She began to study dance at the age of 6. At the age of 11 she entered the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, from which she graduated in 1995 (class of Professor Lyudmila Kovaleva). In 1994 Vishneva won her first victory at the International Young Ballet Dancers Competition in Lausanne where she took both the Gold Medal and the Grand Prix. This feat has never been repeated by any other competitor since that day. In 1995, while still a student at the Academy of Russian bal-let, Diana Vishneva became a trainee at the Mariinsky Theatre and performed the title role in Cinderella as well as the roles of Kitri in Don Quixote and Masha in The Nutcracker. Ever since, she has performed lead roles in the international ballet repertoire including works by Petipa and Fokine, Balanchine and Neumeier, Ashton and MacMillan, Alonso and Grigorovich, Bjart and Petit and Preljocaj and Ratmansky at the worlds great theatres in addition to Nureyev, Makarova, Malakhov and Barts versions of classical ballets. In 1996 Diana Vishneva made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia as Kitri and she continues to appear there in lead roles in the ballets Swan Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, Lost Illusions and Onegin. In 1999, together with the Mariinsky Ballet Company she gave her first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, while in 2000 she made her debut at the Roy