2010 第四屆國際芭蕾舞星在台北

The 「International Ballet Star Gala in Taipei 」returns in 2010 for a fourth time, bringing fourteen outstanding ballet stars from the world’s most renowned ballet companies to the stage to display their exquisite technique and unique artistry in such classical Pas de Deux as Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Le Corsaire, Romeo and Juliet …….etc, and contemporary works on one stage.

If you weren’t able to attend last year’s performance and join in the enthusiastic standing ovation that followed, this is an event you simply can’t miss.

*Cast
American Ballet Theater / Daniil Simkin
Birmingham Royal Ballet / Nao Sakuma and Chi Cao
Hamburg Ballet / Silvia Azzoni and Alexandre Riabko
Mariinsky Theater / Anastasia Matvienko and Denis Matvienko
Royal Ballet of London / Sarah Lamb and Rupert Pennefather
San Francisco Ballet / Lorena Feijoo and Vitor Luiz
Staatsballett Berlin / Iana Salenko
Stuttgart Ballet / Friedemann Vogel
Tokyo Ballet / Mizuka Ueno

*Programme

Sleeping Beauty - Nao Sakuma and Chi Cao (Petipa)
The Little Mermaid - Silvia Azzoni / Alexandre Riabko (John Neumeier)
Giselle- Mizuka Ueno / Friedemann Vogel (Jean Coralli / Jules Perrot)
Tryst - Sarah Lamb and Rupert Pennefather (Christopher Wheeldon)
Le Bourgeois- Daniil Simkin (Ben Van Cauwenbergh)
In the middle, some what elevated- Lorena Feijoo and Vitor Luiz (William Forsythe)
Le Corsaire - Anastasia Matvienko / Denis Matvienko (Petipa)

Intermission

Raymonda (Piano accompaniment) - Mizuka Ueno ( Petipa)
Illusions like Swan Lake /Meditation -Silvia Azzoni / Alexandre Riabko ( John Neumeier)
Romeo and Juliet - Nao Sakuma / Chi Cao (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)
Thais pas de deux (Violin and Piano accompaniment ) - Sarah Lamb / Rupert Pennefather (Sir Frederick Ashton )
Radio and Juliet- Anastasia Matvienko / Denis Matvienko ( Edward Clug)
Mopey - Friedemann Vogel ( Marco Goecke )
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux - Iana Salenko/ Daniil Simkin ( George Balanchine)
Don Quixote - Lorena Feijoo / Vitor Luiz (Petipa)
* Violist- Prajna Wang / Pianist - Ming-Jui Tsai



*The program will last approximately 150 minutes (including a 20-minute intermission).
*Program and cast are subject to change.