Finnish National Ballet’s spring performance at Bolshoi Theatre

HELSINKI: The Finnish National Ballet will give guest performances at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre in the spring of 2013

. This is the first time in history that the whole company visits Bolshoi Theatre
. The dancers will perform two triple bills from the season’s current repertoire
. The first is Bella Figura, a series of dance performances set to premiere at the FNO in February 2013 and featuring Jiří Kylián’s Bella Figura, William Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated and George Balanchine’s Four Temperaments

. The second triple bill is an evening titled Nijinsky–Elo–Inger, which includes the revival of the original The Rite of Spring ballet created by Vaslav Nijinsky, Jorma Elo’s recent work entitled Double Evil, and Johan Inger’s Walking Mad.

100 Years Anniversary of the Rite of Spring – Festival at Bolshoi.

In honour of the century anniversary of Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring, the Bolshoi Theatre is arranging a mini-festival entitled “100 Years Anniversary of the Rite of Spring – 100 Years Anniversary of the New Art”, scheduled for April 15–21. Reconstructed by dance historian Millicent Hodson and art historian Kenneth Archer, Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring was performed by the Finnish National Ballet first in 1994 and now returns again to the FNO season repertoire in March of 2013.