Shea Johnson
in Spartacus
Photo by Marty Sohl
Olga Pavlova
and Andre Prikhodko in Eight by Adler
Photo by Sharon K. Nolan
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Spartacus
Music by Aram Khachaturian
Libretto & choreography by Yuri Grigorovich
Restaging by Alexander Vetrov
Eight
by Adler
Music by Richard Adler
Choreography by Paul Mejia
The great epic
ballet Spartacus, considered to be one of Grigorovich's
greatest masterpieces, premiered at the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow in
1968. Later, Alexander Vetrov stared in the role of Crassus when
he was at the time the leading male principal dancer at the Bolshoi.
In 2004, Grigovovich granted Mr. Vetrov permission to create an
abridged variation of the famous ballet, which premiered at Bass
Hall in April 2004 to great acclaim.
Paul
Mejia's highly acclaimed ballet, Eight by Adler, based
on eight Broadway favorites by Richard Adler has always enjoyed
the reputation of being an audience favorite. Mr. Adler granted
the right to use eight particular songs for Mr. Mejia's use in choreographing
Eight by Adler. It premiered in 1984 at the Chicago City
Ballet when Mejia served as co-artistic director with Maria Tallchief.
It was last performed by Metropolitan Classical Ballet on June 26,
2004.
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