Press Release
London Coliseum to host tribute to Anna Pavlova
Russian Ballet Icons Gala and Dinner 2012
Celebrating a centenary of Anna Pavlova making her home in London, at Ivy House
The Russian Ballet Icons Gala 2012, a grand gala evening in honour of Anna Pavlova will be held on the 4th March on the stage of the English National Opera in London.
Part of the Russian Ballet Icons series, the gala evening opens the Pavlova 2012 Festival marking the centenary of Anna Pavlova making her home in London at Ivy House, which has now become a place of pilgrimage for ballet lovers. Arts promoter Ensemble Productions is proud to present the evening accompanied with the orchestra of the English National Ballet under the direction of Valeriy Ovsyannikov.
The evening will present a unique opportunity to see several pieces from Pavlova’s repertoire such as Raymonda, The Pharoah’s Daughter, Russkaya, Giselle, La Bayadére, The Dying Swan, Marcobomba, and other choreographic masterpieces including Pavlova & Tseketti, Spendid Isolation III and Life is Dream. The programme will be presented by dancers from world leading companies: The Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres, the Royal Ballet, the English National Ballet and the Grand Paris Ballet, the Berlin and the Bavarian Staatsoper, American Ballet Theatre and Milan’s La Scala including: Tamara Rojo, Sergei Polunin, Alina Cojocaru, David Makhateli, Alina Somova, Svetlana Zakharova, Anastasia Stashkevich, Vyacheslav Lopatin, Igor Zelensky, Natalia Somova, Giuseppe Picone, Ulyana Lopatkina, Evgenia Obratsova, Marat Shemiunov, Vadim Muntagirov, Daria Klimentova, Lucia Lacarra, Marlon Dino, Yana Salenko, Marian Walter, Irina Dvorovenko, Maxim Belotserkovsky, Alessio Carbone, Andrey Merkuriev and others. The artistic director of the evening is the English National Ballet’s artistic director, Wayne Eagling.
The contribution that Anna Pavlova made to ballet around the world is inestimable and especially in England. Ashton and Helpmann were inspired by her and Ninette de Valois once said that she wished she had joined her company. A number of her company’s former dancers became teachers at the Royal Ballet School and elsewhere in England. For much of her life Anna Pavlova toured the world with her own company but kept a home in London, at Ivy House. The London Jewish Cultural Centre, current residents of Ivy House and custodians of her legacy, will be hosting Pavlova 2012 festival, a celebration of the vibrant contribution she made to London life and still makes to the world of classical dance and the organisers are proud to be opening the festival dedicated to such an icon of the ballet stage.
The London Coliseum
Sunday 4 March 2012, 7.00pm
Box Office: 0871 911 0200
This event supports Sacred Heart charitable foundation.
For further information and details about the post production dinner please contact: Ensemble Productions Ltd
email: info@ensembleproductions.co.uk
www.russianballeticons.com www.ensembleproductions.co.uk
N.B. – The programme is subject to change and may incur additions and alterations.
MY GRAND FATHER PLAYED IN THE ORCHESTRA FOR ANNA PAVLOVA BALLET COMPANY IN LONDON AND WE HAVE A SCRAP BOOK WITH MANY PICTURES OF THE GREAT BALLERINA AT IVY HOUSE. ALSO,A SILVER CIGARETTE BOX GIVEN TO MAESTRO THEORORE STIER,,HER MUSICAL DIRECTOR FROM ANNA PAVLOVA ON HIS RETIREMENT, A SIGNED PHOTO OF ANNA TO THEODORE AND A BOOK ON HIS TRAVELS WITH ANNA PAVLOVA BALLET COMPANY TOURING THE WORLD .A GREAT BALLERINA OF HER TIME,SHE BROUGHT BALLET TO EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD.