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MINSK, 2 May (BelTA) – The Bolshoi Theater of Belarus will invite for its Ballet Summer on 11-18 June, BelTA learned from the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus.

The Ballet Summer at the Bolshoi festival will open with Piotr Tchaikovsky’s legendary ballet Swan Lake. Dancers of the National Opera of Ukraine Anastasia Shevchenko and Sergei Krivokon will dance Odette-Odile and Prince Siegfried on 11 June, while performing on 12 June will be Nino Samadashvili from the Opera and Ballet Theater of Georgia and Igor Kolb from the Mariinsky Theater.

Dancers of the Astana Ballet Theater will perform on the stage of the Belarusian Bolshoi Theater for the first time. The theater is bringing the one-act ballets Love Fear Loss and Gaia by choreographer Ricardo Amarante (a graduate of the English National Ballet School) and the Astana Ballet GALA program on 13 June. Love Fear Loss will tell the story of great Edith Piaf, accompanied with the songs of this legendary singer. Gaia is a story about Planet Earth. The Astana Ballet GALA program includes the best acts from the repertoire of the theater, developed by Kazakh and foreign choreographers. On 14 June the program will feature the fantasy ballet Carmen to the music of Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin and the ballet Diversity with the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pietro Mascagni, Ludwig Minkus, Jules Emile Frederic Massenet, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, and other composers. Diversity is another show developed by choreographer Ricardo Amarante. The theater goers will be treated to one more evening of one-act ballets on 15 June. These will be two philosophic stories Fogs of Time and Slow Fire.

On 16 June Belarusian ballet stars will present Ludwig Minkus’ Paquita, Aleksandra Tikhomirova’s production of the ballet Sonnets, and Jiri Kylian’s Six Dances.

On 18 June the Ballet Summer at the Bolshoi will wrap up with a gala concert featuring the world’s ballet celebrities, including dancers from Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Germany and the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus.