Ballet prima Vishneva to showcase Dialogues performance

Mariinsky Theater prima ballerina Diana Vishneva will star in the Dialogues choreographic program at Moscow’s Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theater on November 16. Photo: Pianist Alexei Goribol, prima ballerina Diana Vishneva and principal dancer with Hamburg Ballet, Thiago Bordin.

The program features three one-act ballets staged by four choreographers, who represent different generations as well as different schools and styles of the modern ballet.

The program is named after Dialogues, the ballet choreographed by Hamburg Ballet’s John Neumeier and to be performed by Vishneva together with Thiago Bordin, principal dancer with Hamburg Ballet. Photo: Thiago Bordin and Galina Vishneva.

The program will also feature Martha Graham’s ballet Errand into the Maze (1947). The ballet, the first of Graham’s productions staged in Russia, was presented to the Russian public earlier in June during Vishneva’s performance she gave at Mariinsky Theater to mark 15 years of her career. On November 16, Vishneva will be joined on stage by Ben Schultz of the Martha Graham Dance Company.

The performance will end with Subject to Change, the 2003 ballet choreographed by the Netherlands Dance Theater, together with British choreographer Paul Lightfoot and Spanish choreographer Sol León, to the music by Franz Schubert orchestrated by Gustav Mahler. On stage, Vishneva will be joined by Bolshoi Theater principal dancer Andrei Merkuryev and Mariinsky Theater dancers.

Dialogues is a joint project by St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater and the Diana Vishneva Foundation with assistance from Ardani Artists Management, a New York-based company involved in the previous project, Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion, which won three Golden Mask Russian National Theater awards in 2009.

The ballet was premiered at Mariinsky Theater earlier in October, while on November 16 the program will be showcased for the Moscow audience.